PITTSBURGH, Feb. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- United States Steel
Corporation (NYSE: X) Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer David B. Burritt today
announced two executive appointments. James F. Dudek has been named vice president –
asset revitalization & manufacturing excellence, and Pipasu H.
Soni will serve as vice president – finance. Both
appointments were effective Feb. 1.
Dudek and Soni will continue to be based at the company's
Pittsburgh headquarters, and both
will join the company's executive management team.
"Jim and Pipasu have made key contributions to
U. S. Steel's Carnegie Way transformation," Burritt
said. "Their new roles highlight the continued emphasis we
will place on improving our balance sheet and driving value for our
customers, stockholders and employees by improving the things that
matter most to them: safety, reliability, delivery, quality and
cost."
Dudek will be responsible for working with our Commercial
Entities to develop and implement U. S. Steel's asset
revitalization strategy, oversee product quality for all North
American Flat-Rolled operations, and accelerate company-wide
reliability centered maintenance efforts. In addition, he
will retain leadership for the company's engineering and Carnegie
Way transformation organizations.
Dudek has been with the company for 20 years and most recently
served as managing director of strategic planning and support with
responsibility for The Carnegie Way transformation and engineering,
as well as support for the company's corporate strategy
activities. He previously served as general manager of
strategy and transformation, director of global manufacturing
strategy and was plant manager of Mon Valley Works' Clairton Plant
coke making facility. During his early years with the
company, he advanced through increasingly responsible roles in
quality assurance and rolling and finishing operations at Gary
Works.
Dudek earned a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering
from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, and he was awarded a master's degree in
business administration from DePaul University.
Soni will retain his current leadership of
U. S. Steel's financial planning and analysis (FP&A)
activities, which includes corporate FP&A and Commercial Entity
finance. He will also retain responsibility for strategy and
business development. He will assume added leadership for
corporate controllership, corporate risk management and treasury
functions.
Soni joined U. S. Steel in April 2016 as managing director of
FP&A. Prior to joining U. S. Steel, he spent
six years at Pentair, where he advanced through significant
director-level positions in strategy and finance. In 2012, he
was appointed vice president of business analysis and planning,
where he was responsible for corporate FP&A as well as
operations and commercial finance. Soni also held important
managerial roles in international and business unit finance,
corporate development and controllership at Honeywell. In
addition, he served in manufacturing and design engineering
positions while at Ingersoll-Rand.
Soni graduated from Tennessee Technological
University with a bachelor's degree in mechanical
engineering. He has earned two master's degrees: business
administration with an emphasis in finance from Cornell University and mechanical engineering from
Clemson University. He is
currently pursuing his Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
certification.
United States Steel Corporation, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., is a leading integrated steel
producer and Fortune 250 company with major operations in
the United States and Central
Europe. For more information about U. S. Steel, please visit
www.ussteel.com.
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