Daniel G. Mull | Chairman, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, ArcelorMittal USA LLC
Daniel G. Mull was named executive vice president of Sales & Marketing at Mittal Steel USA, now ArcelorMittal USA, in September 2006. He had been vice president, Marketing, since April 2005. Mull, 57, joined the company in 2003 as director of end user sales for Ispat Inland Inc. Previously, in a 30-year career at Bethlehem Steel Corp., he held various management positions including chief commercial officer. During his career, Mull has had extensive experience in serving most steel consuming industries, including: automotive, construction, appliance and energy. In addition, his career included time in the oil field distribution business and developing supply-chain relationships with service centers. He and his wife of 30 years live in Chesterton, Ind.
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Gary T. Barlow | Vice President, Sales & Customer Service, AK Steel Corporation
Gary T. Barlow, 48, was named Vice President, Sales and Customer Service, AK Steel Corporation, in September 2010. He joined AK Steel in May of 2010 from Chicago-based Ryerson Inc., a metals processing and distributing company, where he was most recently President, Northeast Region. Prior to joining Ryerson, Mr. Barlow served in several auditing and financial service capacities at Bank of America. Mr. Barlow holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Clemson University, and an MBA in International Business from the University of North Carolina. His MBA coursework and residencies were completed in Hong Kong, New Delhi, Rotterdam, Istanbul, Mexico and Brazil. He is a Certified Public Accountant.
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Rick Blume | General Manager, Commercial Steelmaking Group, Nucor Corporation
With extensive marketing and sales experience in a range of steel consuming industries, Rick Blume serves as general manager, commercial for Charlotte, N.C.-based Nucor Corp.’s steelmaking group and has commercial responsibility for the Flat and Long Products groups in domestic and international markets. Prior to this, Blume held various positions of increasing responsibility with Nucor, including his most recent position as director of sales and marketing beginning 2007. There, he was responsible for the coordination of sales and marketing for Nucor’s Flat Products, including sheet and plate. Blume joined Nucor in 2000 as sales manager at Nucor’s Crawfordsville, Ind. division. Previously, he spent 22 years with AK Steel in Troy, Mich. serving in various operating and commercial positions.
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Bradley L. Davey | Vice President, Sales & Marketing, ArcelorMittal Dofasco, Inc.
Brad Davey joined Dofasco in 1986 as a member of the company’s Technology Department. In 1990, he was assigned to the Hot Mill as a Supervisor and held various roles in Maintenance and Operating Technology, until his appointment as a Business Unit Manager in 1996. In this role, Brad also led the Hot Mill modernization program and a technical exchange program with the former NKK Steel from 1999 to 2001. In 2002, Brad joined Commercial as Manager of Marketing and became General Manager of Marketing in 2005. Brad was appointed Director of Sales in 2007, responsible for all flat rolled sales to Construction, Manufacturing, Distribution, Tubular, and Packaging Industries. In October 2008, Brad assumed additional responsibilities for Marketing and Commercial Business Development, and was promoted to Vice President, Sales & Marketing. Brad holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McMaster University and is on the Board of Directors for ArcelorMittal Tubular Products.
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Bob Holt | Vice President Sales and Marketing, ThyssenKrupp Steel US
Bob Holt was appointed Vice President of Sales and Marketing for ThyssenKrupp Steel USA, LLC in October of 2007. He is responsible for Sales and Marketing for the carbon steel segment of ThyssenKrupp’s new $4.2 billion steel and stainless steel processing facilities currently under construction in Calvert, Alabama. When completed in the first quarter of 2010, the facilities will employ 2,700 employees and produce approximately 1 million metric tons of stainless product and 4 million metric tons of carbon steel annually. Bob previously served as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for ArcelorMittal. He began his career at Bethlehem Steel Corp in 1979, and in 1989 Bob joined the Bethlehem Steel Corp Commercial Department where he remained until 1993. In that same year he was appointed Assistant Superintendent, Cold Sheet Mill at Bethlehem Steel’s Burns Harbor plant. Bob graduated from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and is a retired Lieutenant Colonel with the United States Marine Corps Reserve.
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Daniel L. Miksta | Vice President and General Sales Manager of Steel Products, SSAB Americas
Daniel L. Miksta is the Vice President and General Sales Manager of Steel Products for SSAB Americas. He is responsible for overseeing the sales of SSAB Americas two steel plate mills and three cut to length temper mill operation, as well as Swedish produced branded sales. He previously served in the same role with IPSCO until its acquisition by SSAB in July 2007. Miksta’s career also includes 29 years in sales with Inland Steel, where he served in several capacities including: customer service representative; supervisor production scheduling; sales representative; district sales manager and was later promoted to Director, Commercial and Distribution sales. Miksta received a BA in marketing from the University of Illinois. He is a member of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries. He also holds a seat on the Plate and Shapes Committee, of the Metal Service Center Institute. He and his wife, Debby, have two sons, Jeffrey and Steven.
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Craig Peterson | Vice President – Commercial, USS-POSCO Industries
Craig Peterson, a native of Manhattan Beach, California is a 1975 graduate of California State University, Long Beach. Peterson began his career with U. S. Steel in 1973 as a Sales Representative with the company’s Products Division in Los Angeles and in 1982 was transferred north to California as Manager of Sales – West Coast. In 1986 Peterson joined USS-POSCO Industries following the sale of the Products Division by U. S. Steel. From 1986 to 1989, he held a variety of sales and marketing positions. In 1990 Peterson was appointed Manager of Sales – Tin Mill Products and in 1994, he was named General Manager of Sales – Sheet Products, the position he held prior to his appointment in 1998 as Vice President – Commercial.
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Joseph R. Scherrbaum, Jr. | Vice President-Sales & Customer Service, North American Flat-Roll Operations, United States Steel Corporation
Joseph R. Scherrbaum, a native of Connellsville, Pa., earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a master’s degree in business administration from Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. Additionally, he attended the Executive Program at the University of Michigan Business School. Mr. Scherrbaum began his career with U. S. Steel in 1979 at the Lorain-Cuyahoga Works outside Cleveland where he held several supervisory positions in production and business planning. In 1985, Mr. Scherrbaum was named senior sales representative for Tulsa, Okla., and in 1987, senior sales representative for Atlanta. He became product manager for oil country tubular goods at the company’s Pittsburgh headquarters in 1989 and was named manager-commercial in a reorganization of the tubular products staff in 1994. He was appointed general manager-tubular products in 1996. Mr. Scherrbaum was transferred to Chicago in 1999 to serve as general manager-service centers, electrical, agricultural and industrial equipment. In 2002, he was named vice president-commercial, U. S. Steel Košice, in Košice, Slovakia, where he played a key role in growing U. S. Steel’s presence in the European marketplace. He returned to the United States in 2005 when he was named vice president-sales. He was appointed vice president-North American sales in March 2008 and assumed his current post in June 2008. Mr. Scherrbaum is a member of the board of directors for the Holy Family Foundation and the Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania.
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