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Ulrich Albrecht-Frueh, Ph.D. Dr. Ulrich Albrecht-Frueh was appointed President and CEO of ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA in August 2007. In August 2006, Albrecht-Frueh was charged with oversight of ThyssenKrupp Stainless AG’s new project to be developed in the southeastern United States and in July 2007, he was appointed Managing Director of the newly established ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA. Albrecht-Frueh joined ThyssenKrupp Nirosta in 1997 as a plant engineer in the melting shop area of the Krefeld steel mill. In 1998, he was responsible for building Europe’s first industrial-scale strip caster. Subsequently, he headed the European collaborative project “Eurostrip,” aimed at industrializing strip casting technology. In 2004, Albrecht-Frueh was appointed Vice President of ThyssenKrupp Nirosta’s Krefeld steel mill. Albrecht-Frueh studied mechanical engineering/process engineering at the RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany, earning a doctorate degree in Innovative Metallurgical Processes.
Bill Jones A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Bill Jones was named vice chairman of O’Neal Industries in 2008. Previously, he was president and chief executive officer of O’Neal Steel since 2000. After working for four years for South Central Bell in commercial management, Mr. Jones joined O’Neal Steel in 1976. Over the next 19 years, he worked in inside sales in Birmingham, moved to outside sales in Tupelo, Mississippi for the Jackson District, became district manager in Memphis in 1981, and was made manager of marketing and specialty products in 1987. He was promoted to vice president, Birmingham District, in 1990, became executive vice president in 1993.
Panos Kouvelis Panos Kouvelis is director of The Boeing Center for Technology, Information, and Manufacturing and Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management at Washington University’s Olin School of Business. Dr. Kouvelis is an expert on global supply chain security including the efforts of homeland security officials to secure the 30 million containers that are shipped into the United States annually as part of the manufacturing and distribution supply chain. His areas of expertise include international operations; supply chain management and operations strategy; outsourcing management; global logistics; inventory and procurement management; e-business and e-fulfillment strategies; marketing/manufacturing interfaces and manufacturing system design. Prior to joining Olin in 1996, Dr. Kouvelis served as an associate professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published two books and more than 60 papers in top-quality academic journals. Dr. Kouvelis earned a diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, a master’s degree in business from Stanford University; a master of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California and a doctoral degree from Stanford University.
Eli S. Lustgarten Eli S. Lustgarten is president of ESL Consultants LLC and senior vice president and senior analyst, Longbow Research and is responsible for the analysis of the industrial manufacturing sectors of the economy. Previously, he was director of institutional equity research of JB Hanauer & Company. Eli has been widely recognized by his peers, having been elected to the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team for more than 20 years. He has also been recognized six times by the Wall Street Journal All-Star Analyst poll. Lustgarten received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the Polytechnical Institute of Brooklyn, and a master of science in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School.
Markus A. Moll Markus A. Moll has been managing director and senior market analyst with SMR – Steel & Metals Market Research of Ehrwald, Austria since 1994. Moll provides market intelligence to clients in the specialty steel industry in Europe, the United States and Asia. He spent five years as a market analyst with a German market research firm that emphasized the stainless steel long products and nickel alloy sectors. Moll is a mechanical engineer and earned his master’s degree in business economics from the University of Innsbruck.
Marci Rossell Marci Rossell served as the popular, lively chief economist for CNBC in the months immediately following September 11th. Prior to her career in broadcast journalism, Marci served as corporate economist and investment spokesperson for OppenheimerFunds. Before moving to Wall Street, she was an expert witness for Deloitte and Touche in court cases involving economic issues. Marci began her career as an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She is currently a visiting professor at DePaul University. Marci earned a Ph.D. in economics from Southern Methodist University, where she was named one of the Young Alumni of the Year.
William K. Sales Bill Sales is a 30 year veteran of the metals industry. He spent his first 18 years with Kaiser Aluminum in various manufacturing and sales positions in the extrusion, rod and bar, and flat rolled products businesses. He joined Reliance Steel & Aluminum Company in 1997 as vice president of Non-Ferrous Operations. He became a senior vice president of the company in 2002 and is responsible for the aluminum and stainless side of the business. Bill holds a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering from Louisiana Tech University and a master’s degree in industrial engineering with an MBA option from LSU. |
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