Thomas Kelly to advance to general manager-blast furnace engineering &
technology
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United States Steel
Corporation (NYSE: X) Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
John H. Goodish today announced three management appointments: Richard M.
Efkeman has been named vice president-worldwide marketing; Anton Lukac has
been named vice president-engineering & technology; and Thomas Kelly has
been named general manager-blast furnace engineering & technology. Efkeman
and Lukac will report to Goodish. Kelly will report to Lukac. The moves are
effective March 1.
"While the responsibilities of the marketing and engineering and
technology organizations are dramatically different, they share two
important duties: anticipating what our customers' needs will be both now
and in the future and ensuring that we are prepared to meet them,"
explained Goodish. "The experience and expertise that Rick, Anton and Tom
bring to their new positions will aid our efforts to remain on the leading
edge of our industry's product trends and process technologies."
Efkeman, 58, will assume responsibility for all marketing activities
across the company, including pricing, market research and strategies, and
trade issues.
Efkeman joined U. S. Steel in 1971 as a service correspondent in the
company's Baltimore sales office. He progressed through a series of
positions in the commercial organization before advancing in 1983 to
manager in the marketing department, where he spent the next eight years
overseeing marketing activities across a range of products. In 1991, he was
named director-mill marketing and business planning for sheet products. He
advanced to director- industry marketing for sheet products in 1993.
In 1996, Efkeman was promoted to general manager of tin mill products
and was responsible for the product's sales and marketing activities. Three
years later, he was named director-raw materials planning, procurement,
distribution and sales. He advanced to his current position, general
manager-marketing, in 2003, and in this role has managed pricing, marketing
strategies, trade issues and commercial market research for the company's
North American flat-rolled products.
A native of Chambersburg, Pa., Efkeman graduated from Indiana
University of Pennsylvania in 1971 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.
He earned a master's degree in business administration from Loyola College
in Baltimore in 1974.
Efkeman will continue to work at U. S. Steel's corporate headquarters.
Lukac, 47, will replace Anthony R. Bridge, who was appointed to the new
position of vice president-operations, East earlier today. In his new
position, Lukac will be responsible for research and development activities
at the company's Research and Technology Center in Munhall, Pa., Automotive
Center in Troy, Mich., and research facility in Kosice, Slovakia. He will
also oversee engineering, coke battery assessment, reliability and
rehabilitation, and blast furnace engineering and technology activities
across the company.
Lukac began his steelmaking career at VSZ a.s. in 1982 as a
technologist in the cold rolling mill. Over the next 16 years, he
progressed through increasingly responsible positions in a variety of
departments, eventually serving as vice president of technology for VSZ.
When U. S. Steel Kosice (USSK) was created in November 2000, Lukac was
named vice president of strategic implementation and reported directly to
USSK's president. In that position, he was responsible for USSK's pipe and
radiator operations while managing 18 USSK domestic and foreign
subsidiaries and supporting regional development through USSK's Economic
Development Center. In July 2003, Lukac moved with his family to the
Pittsburgh area when he was appointed plant manager of U. S. Steel's
Clairton Plant, a coke making facility in Clairton, Pa. In December 2006,
he was named plant manager of Mon Valley Works' Edgar Thomson Plant, a
primary steelmaking facility in Braddock, Pa. He assumed his current role,
general manager-Mon Valley Works, in January 2007 and has been responsible
for overseeing operations at all four Mon Valley Works facilities: the
Edgar Thomson Plant; the Irvin Plant (finishing) in West Mifflin, Pa.; the
Clairton Plant; and the Fairless Plant (galvanizing) near Philadelphia.
Lukac, who is a native of Martin in the Slovak Republic, graduated from
Technical University in Kosice, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 1982.
He will be based at U. S. Steel's corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh.
Kelly, 52, replaces Ralph Corrente, who was named plant manager-primary
operations at Gary Works in Gary, Ind. Kelly will be responsible for the
technological development, operation and maintenance of blast furnaces
across the company. He began his career at U. S. Steel in 1978 as a laborer
at Gary Works. He was promoted through supervisory positions in steel
production, iron making and casting before transferring to Fairfield Works
in Fairfield, Ala., in 1990 to serve as a shift manager in casting. In
1996, Kelly moved back to Gary Works when he was advanced to division
manager-steel production and casting. Over the next six years, he
progressed through similar roles in iron production and at the hot strip
mill.
In 2002, Kelly was named vice president and managing director at U. S.
Steel Kosice, the company's steelmaking operation in the Slovak Republic.
When U. S. Steel completed its purchase of Serbian steelmaker Sartid a.d.
in 2003, Kelly was named president and general director of the newly formed
U. S. Steel Serbia. In 2005, Kelly returned to the United States and Gary
Works to serve as plant manager-primary operations. He advanced to his most
recent position, plant manager of Gary Works' Midwest Plant, a finishing
facility in Portage, Ind., in September 2006.
Kelly, his wife, Sanja, and their two sons will relocate to the
Pittsburgh area.
For more information about U. S. Steel, visit http://www.ussteel.com.
SOURCE United States Steel Corporation
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