Agenda

Director,  Commodity Research Group
Edward Meir has been in the commodities business for more than 35 years. After getting his BA in Economics from McGill University and his M.B.A from NYU, Mr. Meir started his career as a commodity research analyst on Wall Street before moving on to trade aluminum, tin and steel for London-based Trans-World Metals. Currently, Mr. Meir’s Commodity Research Group is responsible for producing base metals research for ED&F Man Capital Markets. Prior to that, Mr. Meir provided similar research to both StoneX and MF Global for a number of years. Fastmarkets ranked Mr. Meir as the #1 overall base metals analyst in terms of forecast accuracy in four of the last eight years.

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CEO,  Constellium

Lloyd A. “Buddy” Stemple, originally from West Virginia earned a B.S. Industrial Engineering and Masters in Business Administration from West Virginia University and a Masters in Practicing Management from McGill University in Montreal.  Buddy began his career in the Aluminium industry in 1979 with Kaiser Aluminium and moved to Alcan Aluminium/Novelis in 1983 where he held various positions in Operations, Human Relations, Sales & Marketing ,up to Vice President & General Manager of Novelis Specialty Product through 2009.   Buddy joined the Oman Aluminium Rolling Company (OARC) in 2010 as Chief Executive Officer and has overseen the establishment of the facility, organization and marketing plans for the company.  OARC is a 140,000 ton per year light gauge rolling facility located in Sohar Oman.   The world class facility provides light gauge aluminium sheet to the food, heat exchanger and construction industries.  In March of 2014, Buddy was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Constellium Ravenswood LCC in Ravenswood WV.    Buddy returned to his home town to lead the Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood which is an industry leader in aerospace plate, General Engineering plate and Specialty rolled products.

Buddy is also a Director of Pathfinder Band Holding Company (NASDAQ: PBHC), an Upstate New York Community Bank Holding Company of Pathfinder Bank based in Oswego, NY with assets of $600 million.     He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Aluminum Association.   He has also served as the Chairman of the Automotive and Light Truck Group for the US Aluminum Association focusing on vehicle light-weighting with aluminium products.

CEO,  Tri-Arrows Aluminum

Henry Gordinier was appointed President & CEO of Tri-Arrows Aluminum Inc. in April 2017. Mr. Gordinier previously served as Tri-Arrows Executive Vice President of Commercial and Planning, and Vice President of Business Management.  He rejoined Tri-Arrows in 2014 after serving as the Vice President of Strategy for Kindred Healthcare, a Fortune 350 healthcare company. At Kindred, he oversaw pilot programs to test models for at-risk payment and service delivery. Mr. Gordinier initially worked for eight years with Tri-Arrows predecessor, ARCO Aluminum Inc. with responsibility for financial risk management, business planning and analytics. He has an MBA from Vanderbilt University and a BA from Brown University. Currently, Mr. Gordinier serves as Chairman of the Board of Logan Aluminum, a production joint venture between Tri-Arrows and Novelis Corporation, as a member of the Board of Directors of Constellium-UACJ ABS LLC, a joint-venture between TAAH and Constellium, and is on the Board of the Aluminum Association and a member of its executive committee.

 

Executive Vice President, Metals,  Southwire Company
Charlie Murrah is executive vice president of Southwire’s Metals Group, which sources and manages the company’s metal position, serves aluminum and copper OEM rod markets, and sells Southwire continuous rod systems (SCR) globally. Murrah began his career with Southwire in 1984 as an industrial engineer. He subsequently held numerous positions in the company’s engineering, manufacturing, metals, supply chain and sales organizations, serving most recent as the president of the company’s Power Systems & Solutions Group. The Carrollton native is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering. He is a Georgia registered professional engineer and a certified production and inventory manager.