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Michael S. Williams
Michael S. Williams
Senior Vice President-North American Flat-Roll Operations
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Michael S. Williams, a native of Murrysville, Pa., earned a Bachelor of
Science degree in information science with a minor in economics in
1983 from the University of Pittsburgh. In 1998, he graduated from
Indiana University at Bloomington’s Executive Management Program.
Before joining U. S. Steel in 1992, Mr. Williams held increasingly
responsible managerial positions at several companies including Koppers
Corporation and Armco Steel Corporation. He began his U. S. Steel career
at the company’s Mon Valley Works near Pittsburgh, Pa., as a senior process
control engineer. In 1994, he advanced to division manager-systems and
process control at Gary Works in Gary, Ind., before assuming oversight
responsibilities for some of the facility’s steel producing operations
in 1996. During the next three years, he served as division manager
for steel producing-South, steel producing-North and hot rolling.
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In 1999, Mr. Williams accepted a position with Ormet Corporation, an
aluminum producer headquartered in Wheeling, W.Va. He progressed through
executive posts in both operations and sales before he was named president
and chief operations officer in 2002 and president and chief executive
officer in 2004. In 2006, Mr. Williams joined Cleveland, Ohio-based
Special Metals Corporation as vice president-commercial products.
Mr. Williams returned to U. S. Steel as general manager of Gary Works
in September 2006 and was responsible for the steelmaking and finishing
operations at the Gary, Ind., facility, tin production at the East
Chicago Tin Plant in East Chicago, Ind., and finishing operations at
the Midwest Plant in Portage, Ind. He was elected vice president-Operations,
Midwest in March 2008 and oversaw operations at Gary Works, which
includes the East Chicago Tin Plant and the Midwest Plant; Granite
City Works in Granite City, Ill.; Fairfield Works’ flat-rolled operation;
and Minnesota Ore Operations, the company’s iron ore mining and pelletizing
facilities in Mt. Iron, Minn., (Minntac) and Keewatin, Minn., (Keetac).
Mr. Williams was appointed to his current post in April 2009 with
responsibility for all flat-rolled operations, sales, customer
service and supply chain functions across the company’s North
American facilities.
Mr. Williams is a member of the Board of Directors of Chrome
Deposit Corporation, a joint venture between U. S. Steel and Court
Holdings.
04-01-2009
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