Pittsburgh, Pa., USA - December 13, 2013, Pittsburgh, Pa., USA - United States Steel Corporation announced a series of executive management changes.
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Effective January 1, 2014 John J. Quaid will assume the newly created role of vice president – Iron Ore.
Mr. Quaid will be responsible for all mining operations. Mr. Quaid joined U. S. Steel in 2002 and has advanced through positions in investor relations, business planning, the company's European operations, accounting and finance, and has served as vice president and treasurer since August 2011.
Mr. Quaid graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting. After completing his undergraduate degree, Mr. Quaid joined PricewaterhouseCoopers’ audit and assurance practice and was promoted to manager in 1998.
While at PricewaterhouseCoopers, he served a number of major companies in the steel, oil and gas, networking technology, and consumer products industries. At the end of 1999, he joined FastForward, Inc., an enterprise marketing software developer and service provider. In his role as corporate controller, Mr. Quaid was involved in FastForward’s expansion in the United States and overseas.
In February 2002, Mr. Quaid began his career with U. S. Steel as manager of investor relations. In 2004, he advanced to director – facility marketing and business planning and was responsible for sales and operations planning activities. In 2005, he relocated to Serbia after being named director – finance for the former U. S. Steel Serbia with responsibility for accounting and analysis, tax, cash and banking, and credit and collections in Serbia.
Mr. Quaid returned to the United States in 2007 to serve as a lead project manager for the company’s Enterprise Resource Planning project. He advanced to assistant corporate controller in the company’s accounting and finance organization in 2008 and was named controller – North American flat-rolled operations in July 2010.
Mr. Quaid is a member of the board of directors of the United States Steel and Carnegie Pension Fund and serves on the Fund’s Investment Committee. He is also a member of the United Way of Allegheny County’s board of directors.
Larry T. Brockway, who currently serves as senior vice president and chief risk officer, has been named senior vice president, chief risk officer and treasurer.
Mr. Brockway previously served as treasurer from 2004 to 2011, and again assumes this role, as well as additional responsibilities for tax and the United States Steel and Carnegie Pension Fund. He will maintain current responsibilities for procurement and as the company's chief risk officer.
Mr. Brockway graduated from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. He began his career with Marathon Oil Corporation in 1981 as an accounting intern in the Findlay, Ohio, office. He continued with the company following the 1982 acquisition by United States Steel Corporation and progressed through a number of increasingly responsible positions in Marathon’s finance and accounting organization, both in Findlay and Houston.
In 1997, he transferred to Pittsburgh to serve as manager – structured finance for USX Corporation. He was named director of corporate finance in 2000 and director of strategic planning in 2001.
Following the December 31, 2001, spin-off of U. S. Steel from USX Corporation, which became Marathon Oil Corporation, Mr. Brockway was named assistant treasurer of corporate finance for United States Steel Corporation. He remained in that position until 2004, when he was elected vice president and treasurer of U. S. Steel.
Mr. Brockway advanced to his current post in August 2011, assuming responsibility for expanding the company’s already comprehensive financial and business risk management practices to establish a more integrated, systematic and enterprise-wide approach to the assessment, analysis and monitoring of business risks and opportunities and the identification of strategies for managing risk.
Mr. Brockway serves on the board of directors of the United States Steel and Carnegie Pension Fund and is a member of the Fund’s Investment Committee. He is also a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s board of trustees.
Sharon K. Owen, vice president – Supply Chain and Customer Service has elected to retire following a 37-year career with the company.
Ms. Owen has held a variety of roles in quality assurance, customer technical services, steel operations, and automotive and tin product marketing and sales. She has served in her current role since 2011.
Ms. Owen earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Purdue University in 1978, and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh in 1998. In 1978, she began working at U. S. Steel’s Gary Works, where she progressed through several supervisory positions in the Quality Assurance Department. In 1990, she served as a customer technical services representative at several sales offices in the East and Midwest.
From 1993 to 1994, Ms. Owen served as manager of quality assurance for the Mon Valley Works’ Fairless Plant, and from 1994 to 1995 as senior area manager-steel producing at Gary Works. In 1996, she returned to headquarters as manager of automotive marketing.
She advanced through a number of sales and marketing positions in automotive and tin products, and in 2003, was promoted to general manager – commercial, tin products. In 2004, she was named general manager – automotive, a position based at the Automotive Research Center in Troy, Mich.
In August 2005, Ms. Owen was named plant manager – Midwest Plant, in Portage, Ind., and in September 2006, she advanced to plant manager – primary operations at Gary Works. In March 2008, she was named general manager-Granite City Works, an integrated steelmaking facility in Granite City, Ill. ■