2nd Annual Auto Steel & Metals Conference

Gary Marzec is program manager of Industrial Operations for Northrop Grumman’s Information Technology sector in the Commercial, State & Local business group. Industrial Operations delivers supply chain management solutions to the metals industry.

Gary Marzec has 28 years of experience in the metals industry focusing on all aspects of the metal processing business. He has 15 years IT management experience including overseeing the implementation of several systems at various metal companies. Mr, Marzec was the chairman of the American Steel and Iron Institute Outside Processing Committee for six years. His vision of linking the steel processing supply chain was the inspiration behind the design, development and implementation of SteelPartner.comTM a portal material tracking system for the outside processor supply chain currently in use throughout North America. He also is responsible for the design, development and deployment of the OpenTracTM systems, a suite of web-based systems that metal companies may use to manage their supply chain or to run their entire business. Opentrac provides companies cost effective Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. The OpenTrac concept is being employed by leading metal producers, processors and distributors nationwide.

Brian graduated from the University of Toronto in 1979 with a Bachelor of Applied Science and Engineering degree. He began his Dofasco career in the Research Dept. in May 1979 and has subsequently worked in numerous areas of the company. Brian joined the Commercial Department as Director Automotive Business in 2001, and in May 2003, became Commercial Vice President with responsibility for the areas of Marketing, Sales, Market Development & Product Applications, Customer Service, Order Fulfillment, and Commercial Business Development. In July 2007, Brian was appointed Vice-President, NAFTA Automotive Sales and Marketing to lead the integration of the automotive sales activities of Dofasco and ArcelorMittal USA.

Brian is Chairman of the AISI Automotive Applications Committee and a member of the Market Development Committee. He is a council member of the Canadian Division of the Metals Service Centre Institute and is a member of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce.

As vice president of AISI’s Automotive Applications Committee (AAC), Ronald Krupitzer focuses on advancing the use of steel in the highly competitive automotive materials market. His responsibilities include leadership of AAC’s research, education and technology transfer activities and active participation in the Auto/Steel Partnership.

Krupitzer has held various positions within the steel industry including section chief of flat rolled and tubular products research and process development manager for Republic Steel/LTV Steel in Cleveland, Ohio. His steel industry experience includes product development, formability research, and implementation of mill processes including calcium injection, controlled rolling and continuous casting of new steel grades.

Krupitzer has also held both engineering and manufacturing positions at Chrysler. He managed sheet metal engineering and high tech steel development in the Chrysler Materials Engineering Department. Then, as a manufacturing senior manager, he was responsible for quality and operations at Chrysler’s Warren Stamping Plant. He directed the effort to obtain initial ISO 9002 registration for the facility. He later joined a corporate TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) integration team to improve maintenance practices throughout the company.

Ron joined AISI in 2001. He has been active in ASM International, the Engineering Society of Detroit, and the Society of Automotive Engineers. Krupitzer earned BS and MS degrees from in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. Shaw is the manager of Automotive Marketing for United States Steel Corporation. Since joining U.S. Steel in 1995, he held positions of Manager of Design Services, Manager of the Automotive Center Lab and Manager of Customer Technical Service.

Prior to joining U.S. Steel, Mr. Shaw spent nine years with Electric Boat in Groton, Conn. where he was a senior design engineer. He also spent three years with Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, OH at The Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation.

Jody Shaw received a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters degree in Applied Mechanics from The Ohio State University. In 1992, he earned an MBA degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is currently a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

Bill Heenan serves as President of the Steel Recycling Institute (SRI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute. He assumed this position in October 1990, following nearly two years of service as Chairman of the Board for the Institute. In this position, he oversees the activities of the organization, which conducts recycling infrastructure, legislative, marketing, education and public relations programs to promote and sustain steel recycling throughout the United States and Canada.

Prior to assuming this current position, Mr. Heenan was General Manager, Tin Mill Products, for United States Steel Corporation, a position to which he was appointed in 1988. Mr. Heenan received a B.S. in Marketing/Accounting from St. Thomas University. He is a member of several organizations, a lifetime board member of the National Recycling Coalition, a board member of Keep America Beautiful, Inc., and the co-chairperson of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful. Mr. Heenan was named “Recycler of the Year” by the National Recycling Coalition (NRC) at the 2004 National Recycling Coalition’s Congress & Exposition in San Francisco.

Marta I. (Misha) Riveros-Jacobson joined Alcoa in April 2004 as President of Alcoa Advanced Transportation Systems, the business charged with integrating manufacturing capabilities developed for the automotive area, particularly in design and fabrication, to Alcoa’s entire transportation segment.

Before joining Alcoa, Misha served as general manager of GE Plastics Mexico where she was responsible for sales and distribution of engineered plastics materials from GE Plastics to customers in Mexico. At the time of her leadership, GE Plastics Mexico was a $200 million business serving more than 800 customers.

Misha joined GE Plastics in 1989 as a production engineer at GE Silicones in Waterford, N.Y., and later served as a project engineer in facilities engineering at the site. Since then, she has held a number of positions in commercial technology, marketing, sourcing and supply chain management. In her previous role, Misha earned GE’s Six Sigma Master Black Belt status, which requires demonstrated proficiency in statistical tools and expertise in leading and teaching others.

Misha was named one of the “Top 10 Most Influential Women in Mexico” by Expansion Magazine and was an invited panelist at the International Women’s Forum in 2003 along with First Lady of Mexico Marta Sahagun, Mexican Cabinet Member Xotchil Galvez, and author Isabel Allende.

Misha is a Henry King Stanford alumnus of the University of Miami’s medical program and an honors graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., where she earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.

Born on February 9, 1964 in the United States, Misha has lived in several countries including Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, France, Spain, Mexico and Japan.

CAREER SUMMARY

Consultant in light metals engineering and manufacturing. Created magnesium (Mg) strategy for Ford. Supervised metal casting and metallurgical engineering R&D in Mg, aluminum (Al), composites and cast iron at Ford’s central research laboratories. Solved quality, productivity and product-process issues for Ford and suppliers. Globally recognized as a light metals expert with 145 publications, 310 invited presentations, and 9 patents. Member and past director of 6 technical organizations and trade associations. Chaired 5 international technical conferences.

Alfred Spada is Editor/Publisher of MODERN CASTING and Engineered Casting Solutions magazines and AFS Director of Marketing, Communications and Public Relations. Spada is a graduate of Northwestern Univ. and has an MBA from the Univ. of Colorado. He regularly speaks to both metalcasters and casting buyers about the present and future of the global metalcasting industry, casting applications and casting design. Spada is an avid White Sox, Bears and Northwestern Wildcat supporter, and he has a wife, Beth, and two daughters, Alyssa and Abigail, who graciously put up with him for the sake of humanity.