23rd Stainless & Its Alloys Conference

Markus Moll is a Mechanical Engineer with a Masters Degree in Business Economics from the University of Innsbruck. He spent four years in marketing and sales at PLANSEE, a world market leader in refractory metals (Molybdenum, Tungsten, Tantalum). He also spent five years as a market analyst with a German market research firm emphasizing on stainless steel long products and nickelalloys. Since mid-1994, Mr. Moll has been Managing Director and Senior Market Analyst with SMR-Steel & Metals Market Research. SMR provides market intelligence in the form of single and multi client studies to the specialty steel industry in Europe, the USA and Asia. SMR currently employs twelve people and is located in Reutte county of Tyrol, the “Heart of the Austrian Alps.”

Craig Colyer joined O’Neal Steel as the National Manager of Stainless & Aluminum in 2005. Responsibilities are focused on strategic growth and profit initiatives of the non -ferrous products for the nation’s largest family owned metals service center.

Craig Colyer has been employed in the metal service center industry for 25 years with a variety of ecommerce, commercial, material and general management experience with Ryerson, Metalspectrum, US Steel, Straightline and Taylor Steel.

Craig has a BA in Government and Economics from Dartmouth College and resides in Birmingham Alabama with his wife Brenda and three children.

David "Skip" Hartquist is a Partner and Chairman of the Firm's International Trade and Customs Practice Group. He also is the Managing Partner of the Firm's economic consulting subsidiary, Georgetown Economic Services. He concentrates on international trade law and represents clients before the White House, numerous Executive Branch departments and agencies, regulatory agencies and the U.S. Congress. Mr. Hartquist's clients include Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, AK Steel Corporation, Calgon Carbon, Carpenter Technology, the China Currency Coalition, the Copper and Brass Fabricators Council, Noble Energy, Olin Corporation, the Specialty Steel Industry of North America and the Valve Manufacturers Association.

Dr. Peter Koenig is both a lawyer and a PhD Economist at a prominent Washington DC law firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP. He has been involved in antidumping and countervailing duty (subsidy) trade remedy and safeguard disputes for over 20 years, representing domestic and foreign companies. He was centrally involved in the last major U.S. OCTG trade remedy case, as well as the China safeguards case against OCTG imports into China. He has represented major U.S., Chinese and EU pipe and other producers in various trade remedy proceedings over the years.

Andrew Ziolkowski was appointed Vice President –Bar and Coil Products Business of Carpenter Technology Corporation in October 2008. Carpenter Technology Corporation (NYSE: CRS) produces and distributes specialty alloys, including stainless steel, titanium alloys, super alloys and various engineered products.

In this position, Ziolkowski is responsible for the wire, strip and plate products business.

Ziolkowski has held several positions including most recently Vice President-Wire & Strip Products Business. Prior to that, Ziolkowski was Controller-Specialty Alloy Operations, Manager-Internal Audit, Manager-General Accounting Services, Manager- Inventory Accounting/Management Reporting, Manager- Accounting & Administration, and began his career at Carpenter in 1989 as a Senior Internal Auditor.

Ziolkowski received a bachelor’s degree Accounting at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA with a concentration in Finance & Accounting from St. Joseph’s University. He also attended several Management Development Programs at Penn State University, as well as attending the Center for Advanced Emotional Intelligence.

Ziolkowski is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Carpenter Technology, based in Wyomissing, PA, produces and distributes specialty alloys, including stainless steels, titanium alloys and super alloys, and various engineered products. Information about Carpenter can be found on the Internet at www.cartech.com.

Dennis M. Oates was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc. effective January 2, 2008. He continues to serve on the Company's Board of Directors, which he joined in October 2007.

Oates began his career in the steel industry at Lukens Steel Company, a subsidiary of Lukens Inc., where he held positions of increasing responsibility, ultimately becoming President and Chief Operating Officer of Lukens Steel and directing the transformation of a $700 million producer of steel plate and industrial products into an innovative and growing producer of specialty metals.

Oates is past Chairman of the North American Specialty Metals Council and has served on the board of directors of Metals Service Center Institute, Steel Manufacturers Association and American Iron & Steel Institute. He is currently a member of the SSINA. Oates holds a BS from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Temple University.

Dennis Oates, 55, most recently served as Senior Vice President of the Specialty Alloys Operations of Carpenter Technology, with full P&L responsibility for a $1.5 billion-plus business unit with global operations serving the aerospace, medical, energy, automotive, consumer and industrial markets. Prior to joining Carpenter in 2003, Oates served for five years as President and Chief Executive Officer of TW Metals, a $500 million-plus metals distribution and processing company with 44 locations around the world. Previously, he held the post of President and Chief Operating Officer for Connell Limited Partnership, a privately held company in metals recycling and precision metal fabrication, doing business as Luria Brothers, Wabash Alloys, Danly Machine, Danly Die Set, Mayville Metal Products and Yuba Heat Exchange companies.

Dr. Ahmadzadeh joined Mitsui to head up it’s New York LME metals brokerage operation in 2004, having spent a brief period in fund management. Previously, he worked for Rudolf Wolff for eighteen years, as President of the US operations and Director of the UK headquarters. Subsequently, Dr. Ahmadzadeh assisted Noranda Inc., Wolff’s parent, in the sale and integration of Wolff’s assets with Enron. Joining Rudolf Wolff in 1982 as head of the company’s research department, Dr. Ahmadzadeh held various marketing, risk management and trading positions before establishing the company’s New York based operations in 1987.

Dr. Ahmadzadeh has extensive experience of terminal market operations in metals and remains a member of the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange where he has served on the Copper, Aluminum and Futures Commission Merchant Subcommittees of the exchange.

He was educated in the UK and obtained his BSc and Ph.D. at Sussex University where he studied Materials Science and obtained an SERC post-doctoral fellowship.

Alasdair Gledhill is the Nickel Product Manager for ELG Metals Inc. ELG is the world’s leading processor of stainless steel scrap, nickel alloys, tool steel, tungsten carbide and vacuum alloys. Before joining ELG he worked for Avesta Sheffield in Chicago.

In 2008 Mr. Gledhill was elected as a Director of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries having served as President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of that organization.

Mr. Gledhill earned a B.A. degree with honors in Latin from Colgate University and an M.B.A. from DePaul University.

Mr. Gledhill lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and daughters.

Gregory McClain has spent 35 years in the metals and mining industries. Mr. McClain earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Engineering Management both from the University of Missouri at Rolla (formerly known as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy).

Work history and experience includes involvement in steel melting, refining, heat treating, machining and testing of alloys ranging from plain carbon through vacuum melted superalloy compositions. In addition the author has enjoyed the opportunity to design and develop alloys for super corrosion resistance and specialty applications including the alloy composition for the space shuttle main engine. The author has spent the majority of his career in commercial positions responsible for the sales and marketing of mining production ranging from copper, zinc, lead, precious metals and most recently molybdenum.

The majority of the author’s mining experience has been with the Doe Run Resources Company and has culminated with his current position as Vice President of Business Development, Sales and Marketing for Gneral Moly, Inc.

Maria Guzzo is a steel correspondent for AMM, and primarily has been covering stainless and specialty steel since 2005. She has been a reporter in and around the Pittsburgh area for nearly 20 years, including stints with the Pittsburgh Business Times, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Butler Eagle, Dynamic Business magazine and Pittsburgh magazine. Her work also has appeared in the Washington Post and on BBC radio. She is a graduate of Point Park University in Pittsburgh.

James R. McCarville has 30 years of port experience. He has served as the executive director of ports on the Great Lakes (Superior, WI ‘77-‘84), US east coast (Richmond, VA ‘84-‘90) and the US inland waterway system where he has been the Executive Director of the Port of Pittsburgh Commission (since 1994). From 1990 to 1993 Jim served as a private consultant, advising governments of Brazil, Uruguay and Mexico on matters of port organization, operational efficiency and privatization and the governments of both Panama and the United States on the strategic transition plan for the transfer of the Panama Canal.

Jim is the eastern vice-president of PIANC-USA, part of the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses and past president of the national trade association for the Inland Rivers’ Ports and Terminals, Inc. (IRPT). He has served as a member of US Secretary of Transportation’s (DOT’s) Maritime Transportation System National Advisory Council (MTSNAC) and as member of the National Academy of Science/Transportation Research Board panel that prepared the report on “The Maritime Transportation System and the Federal Role: Measuring Performance, Targeting Improvements”. He is on the Board of Directors of both Waterways Council, Inc. and the National Waterways Conference and is active on the Transportation Research Board’s committee on Inland Waterways.

Principle challenges at the Port of Pittsburgh include: securing federal funding for the rebuilding waterway infrastructure; the advancement of new technologies for river information systems, for which the Commission was awarded a patent in 2007 for a virtual navigation locking technology called “SmartLock”; and benchmarking best practices in a series of US-EU inland port “SmartRivers” conferences.

Jim is a native of Wisconsin. He is a graduate of Regis College in Denver and holds advanced degrees in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, Washington, DC, and Urban Studies from Roosevelt University, Chicago IL. Jim is married to Haydee (Aye-EE-day) McCarville and they have three grown children.

Jim started his career as Lakefront Recreational Planner on the staff of the mayor of Milwaukee and, before that, as a community leadership trainer in the Peace Corps in Brazil. He speaks fluent Portuguese.

Michael Wastchak is the Eastern Regional Sales Manager for AEP River Operations--a full service barge carrier, working throughout the inland waterways and an industry leader in safety and environmental protection.

Michael Wastchak is responsible for all sales efforts in the Eastern region of the United States, an area of geographic responsibility that includes the major cities of New York, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Charlotte, Cincinnati, Baltimore and Chicago.

Mike joined MEMCO Barge Line in 1996, based out of Pittsburgh, to initiate and establish a sales and marketing effort for MEMCO in the northeast. American Electric Power purchased MEMCO from Carolina Power & Light in November of 2001. Prior to joining MEMCO, Michael worked for the Ohio River Company for twelve years in various market research and direct sales positions. Before his position at Ohio River, Mike spent five years with the OBL Barge Division of the United States Steel Corporation in various positions in the accounting, marketing, dispatch and sales department. He currently serves on the Board of the Waterways Association of Pittsburgh and has previously served on the Board of The Traffic Club of Pittsburgh and the Board of the Pittsburgh Maritime Club. He is also a member of the Steel Manufacturers Association as well as the Eastern States Blast Furnace and Coke Oven Association.

Ms. Houska has over twenty-five years of experience and is an internationally recognized expert on architectural metals, particularly stainless steel. She is responsible for architectural, building and construction industry market development for the Nickel Institute and International Molybdenum Association (IMOA) and provides corporate clients with market analysis and development assistance. She has also provided architects, building owners, contractors, and fabricators with technical consulting assistance on numerous significant architecture projects throughout the world during design, specification, and construction. Her unique combination of marketing and technical experience and broad range of industry contacts ensures in-depth knowledge of market trends and conditions.

Ms Houska is the author of over 100 articles, papers, and technical brochures. She regularly contributes to leading industry publications and speaks at national and international conferences. Ms. Houska is the Senior Development Manager of TMR Stainless in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She holds a BS in Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a MBA in industrial and international marketing from the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.

Professional Memberships:

ASM International, Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)

Since 1998, Christopher Plummer has been Managing Director and Chief Consultant for Metal Strategies Inc., a leading international management consulting company in the field of steel, metals and mining.

Mr. Plummer is one of the most widely-known industry analysts with over 20 years of experience. His previous positions include:

• Managing Director and Senior Vice President, World Steel Consulting for the 400-member CRU International (Commodity Research Unit) -London

• Managing Director and Senior Vice President of World Steel and Metals Industry Practice for Chase Manhattan Bank.

• Managing Director, World Steel, Metals and Mining Consulting for Standard & Poor’s DRI-WEFA (now Global Insight) the world’s leading and largest business analysis and forecasting company, founded by 1981 Nobel Economics Laureate Lawrence Klein

Kirk Thorne is Vice President – Sales and Marketing of RathGibson, a leading global manufacturer of welded, welded and drawn, and seamless stainless steel, nickel, and titanium tubing.

Before joining RathGibson, Mr. Thorne worked for Lennox International. While at Lennox, Mr. Thorne’s esteemed career included positions as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Allied Air Enterprises, Vice President and General Manager for Lennox Hearth Products, General Manager for Lennox-Benelux, and Director of Global Business Development for Lennox Global Limited.

In his twenty five years of experience in industry, Mr. Thorne has initiated growth strategies, developed and executed product and brand initiatives, consolidated product lines, increased efficiencies, as well as improved value for the customer.

Richard is currently a Senior Manager and Steel Industry Specialist for Deloitte Consulting. He has 20 years of experience as a strategy consultant to the Iron & Steel industry worldwide, and his assignments have focused on corporate strategy and business portfolio development, new market/product planning, merger and acquisition planning, and capital investment planning and evaluation. His clients have included steel producers, suppliers, customers, governments, lenders and investors, and have represented virtually all world regions. Prior to joining Deloitte in 2008, Richard was a Managing Director of Hatch Beddows. He has a B.A. from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Gruchot was born on June 11, 1963 in Herne / Germany.

In 1988, Mr. Gruchot graduated in Process Engineering at the »Ruhr-Universität« in Bochum. He then continued studying Engineering and Business in Bochum and holds a degree in Engineering and Business.

Following his studies, he worked eight years in the Facility Planning Department at the Thyssen group and then several years as Project Manager for international equipment and plant suppliers in the metallurgical business. In 2004, he joined the SMS Demag group and has since then been working in the Sales Department as Technical Project Manager for Stainless Steel Processing Lines.

B.S. (Metallurgy) Lehigh University, 1973

Ph.D. (Materials Engineering) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 1982

Employed by Allegheny Ludlum since 1982.

Member of TMS, NACE, ASME, and the American Welding Society.

Fellow (2005) of ASM International.

Member, BPV Committee II (Materials) of the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code.

Author of numerous papers and book chapters including author of the "Martensitic Stainless Steels" chapter (39) of Uhlig's Corrosion Handbook, Second Edition (2000); and co-author of the "Superaustenitic Stainless Steels" chapter of the CASTI Handbook of Stainless Steels and Nickel Alloys (1999), "Stainless and Heat resistant Steels" chapter of the AWS Welding Handbook, Eight Ed. Vol. 4, (1998) and "Selection of Wrought Ferritic Stainless Steels" chapter of the ASM Handbook, Vol. 6, Welding Brazing, and Soldering (1993).

BRAD W. OSBORNE

Senior Consultant / Manager-Market Research

Education

MA, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1993

BA, Toccoa Falls College, 1991

Summary of Experience

Brad Osborne joined Hatch Beddows in 1995. Prior to joining Hatch Beddows, Brad worked in the steel fabrication and mine supply industry.

Hatch Management Consulting

As a Consultant in the North American Steel Practice, Brad Osborne has worked on a wide range of steel assignments covering both specialty and commodity steels in flat and long products. The focus of his recent work has been in the areas flat roll product markets.

His work has been wide ranging, but with particular interests in determining strategic growth opportunities for both integrated and minimill steel producers. He has worked with both global and North American manufacturers on issues of capital investment plans, marketing and competitive strategy.

Relevant Experience

A global steel producer with assets in the US was seeking to understand and identify opportunities in the North American plate market. A study was conducted to examine the NAFTA market for coil and cut-to-length plate including a supply and demand analysis by region, profiles of demand by consuming sectors, identification of trends, and profiles of existing NAFTA plate producers. Particular attention was directed at understanding opportunities represented by the demand for various plate processing services. The results of the study included recommendations regarding prospective new plate supply in the region.

A US producer of downstream flatroll products including cold roll, hot dip galvanized and electrogalvanized wanted to understand the demand for their products within a specific geographic region. A market analysis was conducted which provided the client with a history of regional ADC for their products including details regarding imports by country of origin and port of entry. The output also included a breakdown of the current regional market for their products by consuming industry with profiles of consuming industries on the basis of volume and product specifications. A forecast of regional demand for the considered products was also provided including a forecast of demand within key consuming industries.

The strategy group of a global corporation wanted to understand the US market for hot dip galvanized and electrogalvanized sheet products. They also sought to forecast demand and trade for these products. The output included the historical consumption of hot dip galvanized and electrogalvanized sheet products, a current breakdown of the consumption of these products by industry, and the historical trade activity in these products. In addition, the output included a forecast of demand for hot dip galvanized and electrogalvanized sheet within key consuming markets and a forecast of trade activity in these products.

An integrated North American producer was interested in the West Coast market for plate and hot roll coil products. The process involved understanding the various market sectors that consume these products, the demands of potential buyers and reviewing the requirements of existing buyers. The output included a detailed sales and marketing strategy to focus the company and develop new opportunities.

The steel division of a global corporation was embarking on a new technology in the production of flat products. In order to assess what course of action to proceed with in bringing the technology to the market, several key issues had to be addressed. First, an understanding as to whether or not the technology captured all the product quality requirements of the targeted markets was developed. Second, an assessment of the markets willingness to accept a new technology was explored. Finally, the continuing investment options were examined. A key output was the identification and description of the business' strategic choices and how they differ in terms of required capital in order to create an analytical framework in which to deal with each choice and its capital implications consistently.

A North American mini-mill was contemplating capital investment options that would significantly increase its flat rolled position in its regional market. The assignment involved describing how the different options would enlarge the markets accessible to them, identifying the market and competitive implications of each option, and recommending an investment strategy that would maximize the revenue generated per dollar of invested capital.

Entrepreneurs from a leading US minimill saw an opportunity to build a dominant position in an underserved product niche. Potential equity investors requested a market and competitive analysis in support of the financing. The analysis included evaluating the commercial attractiveness of off-take and toll processing relationships, and an assessment of the market (and revenue) implications of a significant technological advancement in the production of high value products.

A leading US consumer of a specialized, high value carbon flat rolled product believed there to be an opportunity in backward integrating into the cold rolling and further processing of products fitting their specifications. The assignment involved the exploration of backward integration options, comparing the economics of those options to alternative (and non-traditional) supply relationships, and the development of a new supplier/customer partnership.

A South American energy company was concerned that the construction of a new seamless pipe & tube mill in its home country would limit its supply options and make its purchasing costs uncompetitive relative to world markets. A model was developed to examine the tube mill’s costs of construction and operations, and a pricing mechanism was constructed that ensured adequate returns to the mill while ensuring that the prices paid by the energy company were consistent with those paid by competitors.

A leading US producer of rebar and merchant bar products sough opportunities to enhance the value and price realizations of its product mix. An analysis was performed to examine a range of merchant and SBQ bar market opportunities in selected US regions to design a migration strategy for the mills to serve more demanding and higher value market segments.

Dr. P. Chris Pistorius received his bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Pretoria in 1987, his master's degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Pretoria in 1988, and completed his Ph.D. in corrosion at the University of Cambridge in 1991. He was an Associate Professor and then Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa, from 1991 to 2008; he served as Head of that department from May 2002 to June 2008. He is a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering. Dr. Pistorius conducts research in the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research, focusing on steel cleanliness, reaction kinetics, ironmaking, and electrochemistry. His articles have appeared in the Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Ironmaking and Steelmaking, and Welding Journal, among others.