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George Adams
Chief Executive Officer
SA Recycling
George Adams is CEO & President of SA Recycling, located in Anaheim, California. He has been in the recycled materials business since 1977. Originally started by George’s father over 50 years ago as a single scrap metal facility in Anaheim, Adams Steel merged with Sims Metal Management in September of 2007 to form SA Recycling. SA Recycling now has over 140 locations in sixteen states with over 3,000 employees, 25 shredders, and will process 5 million tons of recycled metals annually. Mr. Adams is an attorney who earned his Juris Doctor degree from Western State University in 1984. He is a member of the American, California, and Orange County Bar Associations
Tamara Lundgren
Radius Recycling
Tamara L. Lundgren is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Radius Recycling (NASDAQ: RDUS) one of the largest manufacturers and exporters of recycled metal products in North America. Before its rebranding in July 2023, Radius was known as Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. Under Lundgren's leadership, the Company has evolved from a regional Pacific Northwest enterprise into a leading global provider of recycled metal products and services. This achievement reflects both the significant expansion of the Company's platform and operating model and strategic investments in advanced metal recovery technologies. These efforts have positioned the Company to effectively meet the rising global demand for recycled metals, particularly in support of the worldwide shift towards low carbon technologies. The Company’s core values of Safety, Sustainability, and Integrity serve as the foundation of its culture and underpin significant recognitions, including being listed as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies of 2023 and named as the Most Sustainable Company in the World by Corporate Knights in 2023. In addition, Radius has been honored by Ethisphere as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® for ten consecutive years and has been certified as a Great Place to Work® for the past four years. Lundgren joined Radius in 2005 as Chief Strategy Officer and held positions of increasing responsibility, including Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. She was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2008 and Chairman in 2020. Prior to joining Radius, she was an investment banker and lawyer with 25 years of experience in the U.S. and Europe, including as a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank in London and New York, and a partner in the Washington, DC law firm of Hogan & Hartson, LLP. Lundgren is a member of the Board of Directors of Ryder System, Inc., a Trustee of The Conference Board, and immediate past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She completed five years as a member of the President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations, having been appointed by President Obama in 2016 and reappointed by President Trump in 2018. She is also a member of the Business Roundtable, the China Center Advisory Board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the President’s Advisory Council of Wellesley College.
Nidhi Turakhia
Allied Alloys
Nidhi Turakhia is a seasoned leader and the CEO of Allied Alloys, a global force in metal recycling with operations spanning multiple countries. With over two decades of experience navigating complex trade landscapes, Nidhi brings unique insights into the evolving dynamics of global trade. She has a proven track record of expanding market reach, optimizing supply chains, and establishing strategic partnerships across North America, Europe, and Asia. Under Nidhi’s leadership, Allied Alloys has not only grown but diversified its operations, adapting to changing international regulations and market demands. Known for her ability to foresee industry trends, Nidhi has been instrumental in fostering innovation and sustainability within her company and the broader metals sector. Her commitment to inclusivity and mentorship has reshaped Allied’s workforce demographics, inspiring a new generation of talent. Nidhi is also a key influencer in industry organizations like the Recycled Materials Association (ReMA), where she co-founded the Women in Recycling Council and champions workforce development. Her perspective on the global trade map combines a deep understanding of operational challenges with a vision for sustainable growth, making her an engaging panelist on topics of international trade, market expansion, and policy impacts.
Kevin Dempsey
President and CEO
American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI)
Kevin Dempsey is the president and CEO of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), a leading advocacy group representing electric arc furnace and integrated American steel producers reflecting the production of both carbon and stainless steels. He has been with AISI since 2009, previously having served as AISI’s senior vice president of public policy and general counsel. Under Dempsey’s executive leadership, the Institute has achieved landmark policy successes on trade, tax and infrastructure policy initiatives, successfully promoted the steel industry’s global leadership on decarbonization, showcased steel innovations and advanced the case for steel as the material of choice in the automotive and construction markets. Dempsey is well known in industry and trade circles, on Capitol Hill and by government officials in the U.S. and globally. He is a regular speaker at industry, policy and media events in the U.S. and abroad, and has been featured in dozens of national, regional and trade media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reuters, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Politico, CNBC and CNN. Dempsey currently serves on the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Climate and Trade Advisory Council. Under his leadership as president and CEO, AISI was also recognized as a “Red Hot Association” by DCA Live in 2024. Before joining AISI, Dempsey was a partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf where he led numerous international trade cases on behalf of American steel producers and other U.S. industries. He also served as counsel to former U.S. Senator John C. Danforth (R-MO) and the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Dempsey received his Juris Doctor Degree from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Washington University in St. Louis.
Marcie Rodriguez
Comal Iron and Metals
Jennifer Betts
Magnar Metals
Gordon Driscoll
Founder and CEO
GreenSpark Software
Gordon is founder/CEO of GreenSpark Software. He founded GreenSpark to improve recycling rates and keep more metal out of landfills through powerful, easy-to-use software. GreenSpark's modern operating platform allows metal recyclers to streamline all aspects of their business, resulting in a tangible ROI through lower costs and increased throughput. Prior to founding GreenSpark, he worked at both Warburg Pincus and Goldman Sachs, focused on Metals and Energy Technology investing. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College.
Stuart Kagan
Founder
Buddy/Born Scrappy Podcast
Steve Osborne
E-Crane
Faisal Naseem
Soonerpipe
Faisal Naseem is the Chief Executive Officer of Sooner Inc., a leading supplier in the oil country tubular goods (OCTG) industry, and a respected member of the company’s Board of Directors since 2016. Faisal’s leadership and strategic vision have driven Sooner’s growth and innovation in supply chain management and the steel industry. His deep expertise spans multiple domains, making him a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the energy and manufacturing sectors. In addition to his role at Sooner, Faisal serves on the Board of Directors for Marubeni-Itochu Tubulars America Inc., where he contributes to strategic oversight and industry leadership. His extensive experience in the OCTG market complements his board responsibilities, enabling him to provide valuable insights into market trends and operational efficiencies. Prior to his current role, Faisal served as the Vice President of Finance and Process Improvement at Sooner from 2012 to 2016. His experience is further enriched by his tenure at Oil States International (NYSE: OIS), where he advanced to the position of Chief Information Officer, leading global technology initiatives that modernized operations and enhanced competitive advantage. Faisal began his career in mechanical engineering, gaining hands-on experience in the manufacturing industry before expanding into finance and technology management. His diverse career includes significant roles at Stewart & Stevenson and Deloitte, where he honed his skills in operational efficiency and strategic planning. Faisal holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA, reflecting his strong foundation in both technical and business disciplines. He is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and holds several certifications in management, finance, and technology, including the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation.
Colleen Miller
Chief Sales Officer
Sennebogen
Sean Adams
Chief Operating Officer
Denver & Houston Scrap Metal
John Atherton
Secretary General
IIMA
Aldo Jordan
President
The Metals Agency
Aldo Jordan is the founder and President of The Metals Agency, a company that provides international metal commodity trading services, logistics, banking and hedging. Aldo’s expertise stems from nearly 20 years of ferrous and non-ferrous recycling experience in yard operations, commercial purchasing, international logistics and commercial sales. For 12 years Aldo worked for one of the nation’s largest recycling companies – Radius Recycling – in several executive management positions: Non-Ferrous Manager, Commercial Director, Regional Operations Director and Director of Non-Ferrous Sales. Aldo holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, an MBA certificate from Loyola University (Chicago), and post-graduate certificates from University of Madison Wisconsin, University of California at Berkeley, and Wharton Business School. Aldo resides in Northern California with his wife and two sons.
Cathy Oates
Managing Director
Fastmarkets
Vincent Pappalardo
Brown Gibbons & Lang
Samir Kapadia
Managing Principal
The Vogel Group
Samir N. Kapadia is a Managing Principal at the Vogel Group, a top-rated, bipartisan government affairs and consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Having spent a decade in policymaking and consulting in Washington, D.C., New York, and Mumbai, Samir helps some of the largest companies in the world understand how Washington can create risk or drive business growth. With a bipartisan background, his previous policy experience includes serving Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Senator Mark Warner (D-VA). In 2023, Samir was ranked a "Top Lobbyist" in Washington by The Hill.
Luis Zertuche
Director Supply Chain
Draxton
John Gordon
SVP Raw Material and Sustainable Resources
US Steel
John Gordon joined U. S. Steel in December 2022 to serve as Senior Vice President, Raw Materials and Sustainable Resources. In this role, John will oversee the Company's raw material supply chains to leverage our iron ore assets as a unique competitive advantage capable of generating real value. This includes increasing our ability to become vertically integrated with our Mini Mill segment, optimizing our metallics mix and expanding commercial opportunities within the metallics space. Before joining U. S. Steel, Mr. Gordon spent four years at Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable technologies, culminating in his position as Managing Director of the Platinum Group Metals Services division as well as President, Johnson Matthey (USA). Prior to joining Johnson Matthey, Mr. Gordon was Global Head of Mining for Clariant Mining Solutions, a leading provider of flotation chemicals and emulsifiers for explosives to the mining industry. Previously, Mr. Gordon worked at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., where he held various corporate and operational roles focused on major capital projects, cost and process optimization, and overseeing supply chain, plant maintenance and engineering at a major South American copper mine. His career began at Baker Hughes Co., where he worked in progressing operations and commercial positions. Mr. Gordon holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Duke University and completed his Master of Business Administration at London Business School.
Jonathan Christensen
Policy Analyst
Department of Commerce
Jonathan Christensen is a policy analyst specializing in steel imports with the International Trade Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He supports the mission of the agency through the administration of the United States’ steel import licensing program and public steel import monitors. He is also proud to work with the Department on the publication of recycled material data and trade trends. He previously completed his graduate education at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in International Trade and Economic Diplomacy.
Tom Meloche
General Manager
K-Scrap
Tom Meloche is General Manager of K-Scrap Resources Ltd, a Windsor, Ontario based metal recycler. K-Scrap exclusively serves the industrial, commercial, construction and retail segments. Tom is a Mechanical Engineer from the University of Windsor. He has spent most of his career in manufacturing engineering, design engineering, cost estimating and sales within the automotive and industrial sectors. Tom joined the scrap industry in 2011. His prior experience in lean manufacturing, metal forming, and sales within the North American trading bloc has proven invaluable for his work in the scrap metal industry.
Carrie George
VP, Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance
Implus LLC
Carrie is a proven systems thinker, change-maker, and senior leader. She has built sustainability and social impact policy and initiatives for over 15 years across 30+ countries. Carrie continues to be known for her attention to data-driven programs and in seeing the subtle and significant opportunities for large scale, social and environmental transformation in communities, supply chains, corporations and government. Carrie has worked with and for many brands, industries and consulting companies that are focused on ethical sourcing and production. She has designed industry-wide policy, as well as managed multi-million dollar small and medium-sized grants/projects worldwide. Including time as an Americorps volunteer, leadership roles in Tech-for-Good start-ups, Apple and a fellowship at the U.S. Department of State, Carrie has worked at the strategic and tactical levels where nothing is too small for her or too big that she can’t empower her teams to do. This is evident in her writing Apple's first Responsible Sourcing of Minerals standard after building teams and cross functional support across Apple, including program implementation and all associated public reporting. This turned Apple's reputation around in this field of work and was praised by serious critics including Greenpeace and Global Witness. Carrie sets out to create programs that support flexible, resilient and sustainable communities and markets that exist and grow beyond her or her team's role. She combines a passion for doing things better with a strong, personal drive for getting things done. Her former boss called her "Principled, intelligent, and highly motivated […] Her energy and enthusiasm are contagious, her ability to bring a variety of stakeholders to the table is impressive, and her capacity to comprehend and provide pragmatic solutions to big-picture, policy-level problems, as well as to operational-level issues is unparalleled."
Kimberly Leopold
Head of Steel Research
Kim Leppold is the Head of Steel Research for Fastmarkets, overseeing a team of analysts covering steelmaking raw materials, ferro-alloys and finished steel analysis and forecasting. She was previously a Principal Analyst covering the global steel tube and pipe markets, and editing the monthly tube and pipe trackers, Welded Linepipe & OCTG Market Tracker, and Seamless OCTG & Linepipe Market Tracker as well as a manager and contributor on the long-term forecast services, OCTG Intelligence Service and the Large Diameter Linepipe Intelligence Service. Kim is a frequent and popular speaker in Fastmarkets and industry conferences and webinars on the tube and pipe, steel, and steelmaking raw materials markets. She has always had an interest in making data accessible to users and leads the development of Fastmarkets’ forecast data to the client-facing dashboard interface. Kim joined Fastmarkets in 2005, after working as an economist for Global Insight where she provided analysis and forecasting of the economies of the Southwest central United States and consulted on projects concerning economic development issues in regions of Arkansas and West Virginia. Prior to joining Global Insight, Kim served as a consultant for the steel and energy industries for CRU International. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and holds a BA in Mass Communications and a MSc in Mineral Economics from the Pennsylvania State University.
Keith Williams
Technical Services
Nucor
Lisa Elly Kagan
Co-Founder & CEO
Buddy
Shane Toncrey
Director of Sales
Bateman Manufacturing
Jon Craft
Regional Sales Manager
Winkle Industries
Ted Brackemyre
Associate
Wiley Rein LLP
Ted represents clients in a variety of international trade matters, including antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, export controls compliance programs and issues related to international trade and climate policy. He practices primarily before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. International Trade Commission , the U.S. Court of International Trade, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Ted has represented clients in a broad range of industries, including leading U.S. technology companies and U.S. manufacturers of steel, wood, and consumer products. On issues related to international trade and the environment, Ted assists clients with trade- and climate-related funding programs and regulations developed through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act, and Buy Clean initiatives. He counsels clients on the international legal and economic impacts of climate policies, including carbon taxes and border measures, greenhouse gas emissions standards, and restrictions on raw materials. Ted evaluates World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international legal implications of climate and environmental policies in the United States and other countries, including the European Union (EU). He works closely with companies, governments, and industry organizations to achieve environmental and economic goals.
Lisa Gordon
Senior Price Reporter
Lisa Gordon is a senior pricing reporter with a thorough understanding of the finished steel and scrap metal recycling industries in the US. She has been covering the industry since 2007. Lisa joined AMM from a competitor in 2009 and her enormous respect for the steel and ferrous industries is evident. She has covered domestic and export ferrous scrap price settlements in all U.S. markets as well as in Canada and Mexico. Lisa launched the shredder feed price series in 2018 and the Mexican scrap price series in 2016. Most recently, she and a colleague did the intelligence to update two maps (published in January 2024) : Shredders in the US and 2024 North America Steel producers.
Tim Ridderbos
VP Circular Business
Shapiro Metals
Tim is a native of St. Louis, Missouri where he still lives and works. He attended Trinity Christian College, earning a B.A. in Business and Economics. Tim began learning about the recycled materials industry while working as a territory manager for a Caterpillar equipment dealership and selling machines to metal recycling companies. He attended his first ISRI event, Consumers Night 2017, because his customer, Shapiro Metals, was also attending. Shortly thereafter, he was recruited by Shapiro and began his sustainability journey as a National Account Manager while helping multi-location industrial manufacturers improve their recycling programs. Tim now serves as the VP of Circular Business Development. Tim works with the Shapiro team to build recycling and sustainability programs for multi-location industrial manufacturers stretching from Richmond, Virginia to Portland, Oregon and from Montreal, Canada to Monterrey, Mexico. The Circular team is responsible for creating additional revenue and savings for its customers while diverting thousands of tons of material from landfills and expanding Shapiro’s capabilities beyond metal recycling. Tim holds a Certificate of Corporate Innovation and Sustainability and is currently pursuing a Masters in Sustainability from the Harvard Extension School.
Alexander Kershaw
Senior Analyst
Alex is a senior analyst in the Fastmarkets steel research team, responsible for forecasting steel raw material prices that include scrap and iron ore and editing the Fastmarkets Steel Raw Material research reports. He has a BA from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and an MSc from University College London, London.
Timothy Goebel
Project Lead
Constellation
Over nine years of expertise in developing scalable machine learning and computer vision solutions across diverse domains, including transportation, sports, medical, and manufacturing, with a focus on Azure cloud platforms. Known for building sophisticated models and data workflows that drive operational efficiency and deliver measurable business impact. With deep technical knowledge of Python, TensorFlow, and Azure, paired with a collaborative approach, skilled in translating complex technical concepts into strategic business applications. In a recent role as Project Lead at Constellation, led the design and deployment of AI solutions using Generative AI and LLMs on Azure, addressing complex business challenges and enabling transformational change. Through the integration of AI and ETL processes with Azure services, optimized product capabilities, ensuring scalability, high performance, and quality. Leadership in implementing Azure DevOps pipelines and CI/CD workflows significantly reduced deployment errors and improved release cycles. As a former Software Engineer 5 at Lexmark, directed the development of computer vision and edge AI solutions tailored to client needs, delivering real-time analytics that enhanced client efficiency, safety, and profitability. Previous work has also included deploying edge AI for transportation safety, sports analytics, medical imaging, and manufacturing automation, leveraging cloud integration expertise in Azure, AWS, and ClearML to enable seamless data management and efficient AI workflows on edge devices. These innovations strengthened client relationships and supported long-term partnerships. A commitment to innovation and excellence positions as a leader in AI, continuously advancing AI-driven solutions that align with and exceed business goals across multiple industries.
Dan Hilliard
Regional Editor
Alesha Alkaff
Alberto Xodo
Product Specialist (Steel & Nickel)
London Metal Exchange
Alberto Xodo, Product Specialist (Steel & Nickel) at the LME, has worked on various strategic initiatives for the Exchange, including the launch of new contracts, the development of its steel futures market and the launch of the Registered Intermediating Broker membership category. He joined the London Metal Exchange in December 2014 and has been a member of the LME Nickel Committee and of the LME Steel Committee since 2015. In 2024 Alberto was appointed to sit on the Executive Committee of the International Steel Trade Association (ISTA). Previously, he was working in the Transaction Services team of PwC with focus on strategy consulting and commercial due diligence for the Financial Services industry.
Randy Charles
Founder and Manager
Greenway Steel, LLC
Johann Schmid
Head of Metals and Mining America
Wood Mackenzie
Nick Macan
Vice President, Procurement
Algoma Steel Inc.