2021 Dubai Steel and Raw Materials Hybrid Conference

Alberto Xodo, VP Sales 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 Steel Committee and of the LME Nickel Committee since 2015.
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.

Mr. Alok Sahay is a steel industry veteran with nearly 38 years of varied experience in the steel industry. His experience includes training at British Steeland tenure as visiting fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University.

Mr. Sahay has been at the forefront in ensuring trade remedial measures are put in place especially when the Indian steel industry went through a rough patch in 2015-2016. He has worked closely with the steel industry & the Government as one of the core industry representatives to advocate on trade related matters at national and international forums. Mr. Sahay has all through championed the cause of the Steel industry. He also represented India in the first meeting of Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity (GFSEC) held at Paris.

In his previous stint at the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) he was instrumental in bringing together R&D establishments of SAIL, the Defence Ministry and other Government units to ensure critical import substitution of products within defence manufacturing. These efforts led to successful launching of fully indigenous warships and warranted that India moves towards Aatmanirbharta in steel requirement for defence sector.

In his current role, Anders heads up business development for ABB’s Metallurgy team, who provide market-leading electromagnetic stirring and braking solutions to improve cost and energy-efficiency, and end-product quality for arc, ladle and aluminium furnaces, billet, bloom, thick and thin slab casting processes. Anders has held multiple roles within sales and global management at ABB, aimed at enabling safe, smart and efficient operations for metals manufacturers around the world by leveraging technologies from across ABB in tailored performance solutions. Anders holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and an M.B.A. from Stockholm School of Economics.

Commercial Director for Latin America at Leeco Trading (www.leecotrading.com)

President of the Brazilian Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (www.brasil-russia.com.br).

Mr. Rosset has more than 34 years experience in the overseas market.

He worked as Commercial Director for Hyundai Corporation and Commercial Manager for Samsung C&T.

Besides his experience in Korean companies, Mr. Rosset worked for British American Tobacco, LG International Corporation, TDK Electronics, Sharp, Consulate of India and in a cooperative of pork in the south of Brazil named FRIMESA.

He was the Director of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and member of the American Chamber in Brazil – Amcham in 1989

Attaul Ahmad is the Vice President of the Ferrous & Heat Transfer business line at Metso Outotec. An ardent football fan and a passionate leader, Attaul sincerely believes in the power of sustainable metals/minerals processing technologies, end-to-end solutions, and services. Currently, he and his team are focusing on designing green steel technologies and energy-efficient processes/solutions for the pelletizing and sintering industry.

Prior to joining Metso Outotec, Attaul had donned several hats and excelled in all of them. He had been a successful entrepreneur and an accomplished Supply Chain Leader in Automotive, Gas & Oil Processing and mining industries. He graduated from Hannover University of Applied Sciences and holds an MBA.

Shri Atul Bhatt assumed charge as the CMD of RINL-Visakhapatnam Steel Plant on 13th September 2021. Shri Bhatt was earlier the Chairman and Managing Director of MECON Limited.

Sri Bhatt graduated from IIT, Delhi (1986) in Chemical Engineering and holds a Post Graduate Degree in Management from IIM, Calcutta (1989).

Shri Atul Bhatt was CMD, Mecon Limited since 01.10.2016. Prior to joining MECON he was Executive Director (Business Development and Corporate Planning) in NMDC and was instrumental in the formulation of Strategic Management Plan 2025 for the Company and was responsible for all mergers & acquisition activities of the Company.

Shri Bhatt has served in Arcelor Mittal as General Manager (Mergers & Acquisition) based in London, UK and also as Country Manager (Iran) based in Tehran, Iran. Shri Bhatt worked in Tata Steel for a number of years, where he started his career as a Graduate Trainee in 1986.

I got my BS degree as an Evironmental Engineer in 2002. Same year I started working at Tezcan Galvaniz (flat Steel sector) in foreign trade operations department. After two years working; I moved to long steel sector and Joined to Çelik Halat ve Tel San A.Ş.’s sales department. In 2011; I was appointed as Sales and Marketing Manager of  Celik Halat. In the beginning of 2018; I came back to flat steel sector again and started working in Galva Metal Sanayi ve Tic A.S. My current position in the company is Process Improvement and Purchasing Manager.

Jin is Director – Commodities at the SGX. His responsibilities include development and enhancement of bulk commodity products focusing on iron ore and coal.

Before joining SGX, he was a trader at Pavilion Gas and Hess Energy Trading Company where he covered LNG and freight. He started his career at Glencore in 2003 where he was on the graduate trader programme in the London office before being transferred to Singapore as a gasoline trader.

Jin has an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University.

After a few years in the banking industry, he joined the steel industry in 1994 as Chief Economist at Iscor Ltd. in South Africa. In 1996 he became Business Unit Manager for coated steel products and flat steel products. He later headed Strategic Initiatives at the company.
Edwin was transferred to Europe when Iscor became a part of Mittal Steel (now ArcelorMittal) in 2004 as a General Manager responsible for Marketing Strategy and was part of the Merger & Acquisition team in Mittal steel. From 2006 until he joined worldsteel, he was Vice President, Commercial Co-ordination, Marketing and Trade Policy at ArcelorMittal.
Edwin joined World Steel Association in August 2011 as Director General.
Edwin received his PhD in economics from Pretoria University. He taught economics at the same university from 1984 to 1990.

Emre is a seasoned financial expert with over 25 years of global experience in commodity trade finance, wealth management, investment banking, wholesale and private banking across large conglomerates and multinational corporates.

He established his own company Integra Business Consultancy back in 2016 and currently acts as the Managing Director. As a finance and business advisory partner, Integra provides solutions anchored on finance that enable businesses to grow.

Before, he was the SEO of BCP Bank DIFC branch where he setup the Bank from scratch and built its business focusing on Commodity Trade Finance & Wealth Management within typical Swiss context. He moved to Dubai from Turkey where he assumed various roles within Wholesale & Investment Banking division as Senior Relationship Manager and Country Head of Trade Finance in ABN Amro Turkey. He based his career on strong grounds of Arthur Andersen Business Consulting and tourism & land development experience he gained right after his graduation.

Emre holds an MBA from Marmara University and Industrial Engineering degree from METU in Turkey. In his spare time he enjoys photography, fishing, motorcycling and cooking with his wife and his son.

Erik is Director within ING’s Metals, Mining & Fertilizers sector coverage team for the EMEA region. In addition, he is Steel Lead and as such is responsible for ING’s strategy towards steel. He joined ING in 2010 and the sector coverage team in 2013, where he has structured and executed various large syndicated transactions in the metals and mining sector and for the steel sector specifically. Being responsible for steel, he has been significantly involved in ING’s reporting on the carbon intensity of its lending portfolio, Terra. Seeing the energy transition as the largest challenge for the steel sector, Erik is now leading a new multi stakeholder working group under the flag of the Net Zero Steel Initiative, which will draft a climate aligned finance agreement for the steel sector based on a net zero scenario.

CEO of Maghreb Steel since 2019.
Graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris.
Mr. Senhaji is working in the steel industry for 7 years. Before that, he worked for financial institutions and other industrials producing commodities.

John Armstrong is the Founder and CEO of Reibus. The independent SaaS-enabled marketplace that utilizes technology to solve ingrained supply chain problems in the industrial material market. Reibus was built with the goal to transform the performance of all market participants and at the same time to build a company culture full of opportunity so good that all employees say it is the greatest job they have ever had. Born and raised in Scotland, John’s first passion was road cycling, which he had the honor to represent his country at an international level before he started his professional business career.

John’s early career started in the UK with various positions with major corporations such as Sainsburys and Saint Gobain. John was selected for several management training programs during this time, which laid the foundation for his future career development.

John joined Omnimax in 2006 as the Commercial leader for their UK Division and was thrust into the supply chain challenges of the industrial market firsthand. After five successful years in the UK, John was asked to relocate to the US with Omnimax where he continued to build his knowledge of the supply chain and all its challenges holding several roles in Sales, Marketing, Procurement, and Leadership positions.

A constant challenger of the Status quo, John has always been looking for new ways to do things, searching for innovative ways to develop projects, businesses, and people. John credits the many mentors he has had over the years, who took the time to invest in him and help him develop personally, and those who importantly had the patience to forgive his many mistakes.

John’s life and professional experiences combined with his industry expertise and desire to create an amazing working culture led him to founding Reibus in 2018.

Prior to joining IIMA in January 2019 John was a Director at the International Council on Mining and Metals for the past 17 years. During his time with ICMM John led the development of the Materials Stewardship concept, an integrated materials management policy that has been implemented by major mining and metals companies as well as being enshrined in national and international government policy.

John was Director for Environment at the Nickel Development Institute (NiDI) from 1997 – 2002 responsible for the development of strategies and programmes to improve the environmental and market performance of the primary nickel industry. Prior to NiDI, John was Director of the European office at the International Cadmium Association.

He has a PhD in earth sciences from the University of Hull and was a post-doctoral Research Associate in Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK.

John Banaszkiewicz, commonly known as John B, co-founded Freight Investor Services in 2002, growing the company over subsequent years into one of the world’s leading freight and commodity brokers. He previously spent 11 years at Cargill International in a variety of roles. John’s determination and diligence in building liquidity was instrumental in the creation of the multi-billion dollar FFA and Iron Ore Futures markets.

He can regularly be heard speaking at shipping and financial market conferences worldwide on freight and commodity derivatives. He is married to Tracy, with four children, lives in London, and sits on the board of directors of Burnley Football Club.

A Sênior Executive with over 20 years of operations experience, with expertise in management of EPC Project companies as well as industrial business.

Proven performance in linking corporate vision with deliveries of desired results through empowerment, development and utilization of people, process and technology.

A strong motivator and team player with effective leadership, communication, decision making, problem solving and interpersonal skills, together with a corporate focus and a results-driven attitude.

Mr.Li Xinchuang, Professorate Senior Engineer and Registered Consulting Engineer (investment), enjoying special allowance approved by the State Council, Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Now he works as Chairman and Chief Engineer of China Metallurgical Industry Planning and Research Institute (MPI), Vice Chairman of China Iron & Steel Association (CISA), Vice Director General of China Energy Conservation Association (CECA), Member of Expert Committee of 14th Five-year National Development Plan and Chief Expert of Research Office of National Air Pollution Prevention and Control Center.
He has participated in and undertaken development planning of China’s iron & steel industry from the “8th Five Year Plan” to the “14th Five Year Plan”, as well as study and formulation of related industrial policies. He has participated in and undertaken development planning for several hundred domestic and overseas iron & steel enterprises, as well as early stage debate for key projects. He has been invited to participate in the 25th China-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Industry and G20 Steel Forum, and in numerous international planning consultation and cooperation negotiation. He has great influence in the industry due to rich experience on large project organization and in-depth research on industrial development and market dynamics.

Michael Go is currently the CEO of the Sydney Stock Exchange and has broad experience working in the international financial markets as a Board Member and Advisor to a number of organizations. He is familiar with the challenges and opportunities presented by Mining & Resources Sector, International financial services markets and the changing technology & business, models having been involved in start-ups and high growth businesses challenging traditional models. Michael is involved in funding and developing several start-ups in the Digital & Financial Markets, Clean Energy, Payments, Agricultural Technology and Fund segments. Support and development of the next generation of financial talent and services is a key focus. Prior to SSX, Michael was Head of Trading, Asia Pacific for a multi asset broking firm, having previously held Global Managing Director and C-Suite roles overseeing the Operating and Growth strategies of major Global and Regional Investment and Commercial Banks with responsibility for developed and emerging markets internationally.

Born on 3 July 1970 in the city of Kurgan, Russia.

Pavel Shilyaev began his career at MMK in 1993 as a technician to soon become the head of the company’s repairs and maintenance center. In 2011 he was appointed acting Chief Engineer of MMK. The same year he was nominated Deputy General Director of MMK for Production. Since February 2014, Pavel Shilyaev holds the post of CEO of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. Mr. Shilyaev is a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the management Board of PJSC MMK.

As a public figure, Mr. Shilyaev is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Chelyabinsk Region. For the past few years Pavel Shilyaev is a member of the Board of Directors of Credit Ural Bank. In 2020 he was elected Chairman of the Industrial Policy and Ecology Committee under the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Chelyabinsk Region.

Pavel Shilyaev holds a degree in electric drive and industrial automation from the Chelyabinsk State Technological University (1992). In 2006 he completed Performance & Management Course at the Stockholm School of Economics (Russian branch in St. Petersburg)

Ramy joined El Marakby steel by end of 2016 to participate in the group ambitious growth strategy of reaching 1 million ton per year by 2021.

Prior to that Ramy worked for several local, multinational and international firms within the steel and construction industries for more than 18 years, he started his career in 2003 in Kandil steel before joining Ezz steel in 2005 for 7 years, then he joined Orascom Construction Industries working in its subsidiary (National Steel Fabrication) till 2014 when he joined ArcelorMittal till end of 2016.

Ramy has worked in many fields such as production, quality control, products development, export sales, foreign purchasing and projects management before focusing on strategies related to sales, marketing and business development functions.

He has previously spoken on behalf of the Egyptian steel industry in many events locally and globally.

Ramy holds an MBA ‘12 from the American University in Cairo (AUC) and a Bachelor of metallurgy and material science engineering ‘03 from the Specialized Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering Suez University, Egypt.”

Born 1 January 1979.

Graduated from Magnitogorsk State Technical University in 2001 with a degree in economics and management in the metals industry, and in 2005 from the Russian Government Finance Academy in financial management.

Head of the Planning and Economics at Magnitogorskmezhraigas, Chief Economist at Magnitogorsk Energy Company, 1999 — 2003. From 2003 to 2007 he was CEO of LLC Upper Urals Distilling Company Yantar. From 2007 to 2014 Sergei Nenashev served as director of LLC Magnitogorsk Service Centre. From 2015 to 2016, Director for Labor Protection, Industrial Safety and Ecology of OJSC MMK. From 2017 to August 2021 — Commercial Director of PJSC MMK. Since August 2021 — Director for Strategy and Development of PJSC MMK.

Sharjeel Azhar is the Chief Executive Officer of Saudi based Al-Ittefaq Steel Products Company (Al-Tuwairqi Group), one of the largest private sector steel mills in the GCC with operations in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Pakistan. He has been with the Company since 2012 spearheading its new strategy and reorganization.

Prior to joining ISPC, Sharjeel has an Investment Banking background and has worked in senior positions with several international banks. He joined the Company from HSBC, where he was Director and Head of Strategic Transactions Group, overseeing the M&A and ECM business in Saudi Arabia. He has an MBA and is a CFA Charterholder. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organisation