4th Annual Moving Metals Conference

Michael Sprung manages the Freight Analysis Framework program at the U.S. Department of Transportation’s, Federal Highway Administration, Office of Freight Management of Operations. Mike’s efforts are focused on the integration of freight data from a variety of sources to estimate commodity flows and related freight transportation activity among states, regions, and international gateways.

Mike has worked in the collection, analysis, and dissemination of transportation data for the majority of his career. Prior to his work at the Federal Highway Administration, he worked at the Bureau of Transportation Statistics managing their international trade and transportation data program. Before that Mike worked as a survey statistician on the Commodity Flow Survey at the U.S. Census Bureau.

An active contributor to the National Academy of Sciences, Transportation Research Board; Mike serves as a member of the Freight Transportation Data Committee and International Trade and Transportation Committee.

Jim Elliott joined Alcan Smelters and Chemicals in Montreal Quebec in May of 1981. While in Montreal he held positions as Warehousing Analyst and Metals Analyst for their North American Distribution and Logistics Group.

In 1992, Jim and his family moved to Cleveland Ohio where he became Manager of Logistics for Alcan Recycling. In this capacity, he was responsible for the total logistics related to the aluminum scrap moving into Alcan’s recycling facilities.

Jim accepted the position of Used Beverage Container (UBC) Acquisition Manager in August of 1999 and in addition to his Logistics function was responsible for the overall purchase of UBC sourced from within Canada. In August of 2001, Jim accepted to sit as a director on an internal Alcan committee charged with gauging and optimizing Alcan’s global supply chain strategies.

In March of 2004, Jim was named Novelis’s Logistics Manager for their North American operations directing corporate strategy between the North American business groups.

In January of 2005 Alcan Aluminum spun off its global rolling operations to become Novelis Corporation which in May of 2007 was purchased by Hindalco Industries of Mumbai, India.

Jim continues to lead the North American operations and has recently assumed some strategic responsibilities for Novelis’s Global Logistics.

Ed Hamorsky is currently the Director of Logistics and Transportation for Alcoa Materials Management with an emphasis on North American operations, which he has held since November 2004. His role is accountable for all carrier sourcing, administration, strategic, execution and payment strategies for all domestic & international functions. Alcoa’s spends ~ $500 million annually for carrier services in North America. In 2008, he began collaborating with Alcoa’s European operations to deploy similar tools, organizational structures and strategies in Europe that had been successful in North America. In July 2009, his group took over the logistics management for capital projects related to Alcoa’s global expansion of new facilities and the equipment upgrading of current manufacturing plants.

Since joining Alcoa in 1985, Ed has held a variety of positions with a focus in transportation. Prior to Alcoa, he worked for Gulf Oil Company.

He is currently a member of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, the National Freight Transportation Association and the National Industrial Transportation League.

Ed lived in the western Pennsylvania area prior to his current assignment in Knoxville, TN, where he relocated in January 2005. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business from the University of Pittsburgh. He and his wife, Patty, have one son and one daughter.

Brian Kluge has a Bachelors in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and an

MBA – Marketing from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

During his career at Ryerson, Mr. Kluge has held numerous roles in several divisions:

Plastics Division:

Operations Manager – Plastics Division

Manager Marketing and Sales to Transportation Segment – Plastics Division

General Manager – Plastics Divison

Metals group:

Plant Supervision

Manager Safety, Training and Engineering

General Manager - Operations and Logistics

Director – Corporate Operations and Logistics

Mr. Shaw is C/G Electrodes’ Director of Supply Chain and Information Technology. He has been with C/G, the only American owned and operated manufacturer of large diameter UHP electrodes, since its inception in 2003. He previously held a position as a Technical Service Engineer with the predecessor company for 7 years.

In his current role, Mr. Shaw currently oversees the flow of all material and information from raw material procurement to customer shipments. The Purchasing, Production Planning, Inside Sales, Logistics, and Information Systems functions fall under his wing. As C/G is a global supplier of its electrodes, a great deal of his work load is involved with the successful movement of product to all regions of the globe.

Mr. Shaw is a 1995 graduate of The Pennsylvania State University where he earned a BS in Electrical Engineering. He and his wife Michelle have two girls, ages 8 and 5.

Scott Robertson is the Chief Correspondent, Steel for AMM and has been with the publication since 1994, covering both the stainless and carbon steel industries.

Robertson has been a reporter in and around the Pittsburgh area for almost 25 years, including stints with the Tribune-Review, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Business Times.

His work also has appeared in The New York Times, the Dallas Morning News and the Edmonton Journal, among others. A winner of Pennsylvania journalism's Golden Quill and Keystone Press awards, he has also worked as a radio host with several Pittsburgh area business programs.

Robertson is a graduate of Waynesburg (PA) College.

Craig Longardner is Manager of Materials and Transportation for Steel Dynamics’ Flat Rolled Division in Butler, Indiana. Current responsibilities include all scrapyard and outbound transportation requirements of the facility including truck, rail, barge, and delivery of finished goods to customers located on SDI’s rail system.

Mr. Longardner began his career in 1977 as a steel buyer for Eaton Corporation in their Professional Intern Program. While at Eaton Corp, Craig spent time at their plants in Marshall, MI., Glasgow, KY., and Cleveland, OH. He has held positions as Purchasing Manager for Hurco Companies, Inc. and Materials Manager for Ransburg Corp., both in Indianapolis, Indiana. Prior to joining Steel Dynamics, Inc. in 1994, Mr. Longardner spent six years with Nucor Corporation at the Crawfordsville, Indiana flat rolled mill as Purchasing Agent, Scrap and Raw Materials.

Craig is currently an Executive Board member and President of the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers (MARS), a member of the Mississippi Valley Trade and Transport Council (MVTTC), and is also an adjunct Mathematics instructor at Ivy Tech Community College.

Craig holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Indiana University and an M.B.A. from Butler University.

He currently resides in Fort Wayne, Indiana with his wife, Marsha, and has two sons: Jake, a freshman at the University of St. Francis, and Joe, a senior at Butler University.

Joseph Bryan is Vice President for the surface freight transportation practice of Halcrow in Boston, MA, with over 25 years experience in the field. He possesses broad practical experience in freight carrier management in multiple modes and has been a substantial contributor to the development of public and public-private freight planning in the United States.

Mr. Bryan has given guidance to the U.S. DOT on the benefits of road pricing for the trucking industry, advised a major inter-regional truck line on market expansion and network development, and provided strategic direction for a variety of public and public-private freight corridor studies. At the urban level, he has aided MPOs in large and medium size cities to understand the distribution systems, operating requirements, and future needs of goods and services movement in their regions, and to prepare responsive strategies.

Mr. Bryan is an author of the original AASHTO Freight Rail Bottom Line Report, a contributor to the subsequent AASHTO Bottom Line series on logistics and multi-modal freight, and a developer and instructor for the National Highway Institute’s Advanced Freight Planning Course.

His rail work includes co-authorship of an NCHRP guidebook on the use of rail freight solutions to relieve highway congestion, and multiple verified statements for the Surface Transportation Board in support of railroad merger applications. Mr. Bryan is Chairman of the Committee on Urban Freight Transportation at the Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences. He holds an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College, and a BA from Princeton University.

Clyde has approximately thirty years of experience working in the transportation industry. His first full-time occupation was with a Louisville tariff association for trucking companies, where he was involved with costing and revenue-need testimony to the Interstate Commerce Commission.

After five years, he left the tariff association to work in the Pricing Department of a less-than-truckload trucking company in North Carolina, where much of his work was freight movement costing. Five years later, Clyde joined the Association of American Railroads, and he has worked for twenty years in the Association’s Washington, DC office.

Currently, Clyde works in the Policy & Economics Department, and oversees annual report data collection, wage statistics, indexes, and cost of capital calculations. He also produces several of the Association’s major statistical publications, and is involved with some of the Association’s submissions to the Surface Transportation Board.

Clyde has a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, majoring in Finance. He also has an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Clyde and his wife Beth have two sons – one son attends college and one is in high school. Although he has retired from coaching his sons’ basketball and baseball teams, Clyde still enjoys sports as a spectator.

Maria Guzzo is a steel correspondent for AMM, and primarily has been covering stainless and specialty steel since 2005. She has been a reporter in and around the Pittsburgh area for nearly 20 years, including stints with the Pittsburgh Business Times, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Butler Eagle, Dynamic Business magazine and Pittsburgh magazine.

Her work also has appeared in the Washington Post and on BBC radio. She is a graduate of Point Park University in Pittsburgh.

Glen G. Nekvasil has been Secretary of Great Lakes Maritime Task Force since its founding in 1991. GLMTF is the largest coalition ever to promote waterborne commerce on the Great Lakes.

Nekvasil is also Vice President - Corporate Communications for Lake Carriers' Association, the trade association representing U.S.-Flag vessel operators on the Great Lakes. He joined LCA in 1983. His maritime career on the Great Lakes dates back to 1976, when he joined Pickands Mather & Co., then the operator of The Interlake Steamship Company.

Nekvasil also serves as Director of Media Relations for the Maritime Cabotage Task Force, the Washington, DC-based coalition that protects the Jones Act and other U.S. maritime cabotage laws.

Nekvasil received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA.

John is the President and founder of transportation consulting firm KEP LLC. John works with industrial companies, energy producers and transportation companies on transportation issues including transportation strategy, transportation rate and contract negotiations, rail cost analysis, rail operations, railcar acquisition, leasing, maintenance and management, intermodal transportation, technology acquisition and regulatory issues.

John is also Adjunct Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver. He has 30 years of experience in transportation operations, marketing and sales.

Prior to starting KEP, John was Vice President of Business Development at DTE Rail Services, a railcar repair, software and services company. He was Managing Director of Metals & Ores at Southern Pacific Railroad and has held marketing and sales positions in the intermodal and LTL trucking industries. John began is career as a trainmaster for Conrail. John has a MBA from Penn State University and a BS in Business from Northeastern University specializing in logistics.

Mike is AEP River Operations’ Eastern Regional Sales Manager. Mike is based in Pittsburgh, PA and manages a geographic area that includes New York, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Baltimore and Chicago.

Mike has spent the majority of his career working in the barge industry. He joined AEP River Operations--formerly MEMCO Barge Line, in 1996 as Eastern Regional Sales Manager and established the company’s northeast regional office. Prior to joining AEP River Operations, he worked at the Ohio River Company in various market research and direct sales positions. Before that Mike worked for the OBL Barge Division at United States Steel Corporation. He currently serves on the Board of the Waterways Association of Pittsburgh and has previously served on the Boards of The Traffic Club of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Maritime Club.

Mike is a graduate of Robert Morris University with a Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting. He and his wife Mary Jo have four children--ages 21, 19 and twins age 12. Mike is an active volunteer of the Bread of Life Food Pantry and enjoys coaching his son’s basketball and deck hockey teams.

Lisa Gordon is a recent addition to the steel team at AMM. She has arrived from a competing trade journal where she wrote over 1,700 articles in two years. In her short tenure she has gained an understanding of the North American market.

Her primary focus is on the ferrous scrap market as she considers it to be the pulse of the industry as it directly impacts steel prices, but Lisa keeps an eye on all sectors of steelmaking to maintain a macro view of the market.

She previously worked at Pittsburgh's daily paper where she won numerous awards for her work. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh.

Gary Ferrulli is a 37 year veteran in the areas of the international transportation and logistics. Twenty of those years were spent with Sea-Land Service in a variety of managerial and executive positions, including Vice President North America.

Prior to joining Sea-Land, Gary was with AP Moller-Maersk Line where he became the first non-Danish executive to be stationed at their corporate headquarters in Copenhagen Denmark in 1976 and 1977 as they put their first container ships into service between Asia and the United States.

For the past nine years Gary has been primarily involved as a consultant to a variety of clients including a large retail firm, a global manufacturer of automotive parts, the U.S. Government, a 3-PL for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and several ocean carriers. Currently he is handling two roles, one as President of Global Logistics and Transport Consulting, his consulting firm; and the other as Chief Operating Officer for a domestic 3-PL – both located in the Phoenix, AZ area.

In addition to staying busy in the areas of logistics and transportation, Gary writes a monthly article for the Journal of Commerce, Beneath the Surface. He has also been a speaker at numerous industry related conferences including the Trans Pacific Maritime Conference (three times); the Terminal Operators Conference (twice); 3-PL European Summit; and was the only industry presenter and speaker at the Joint Japan-United States Maritime Agreement discussions held in Tokyo in July 2008 between the two Governments.

Gary’s education includes an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in Business from UCLA. He is a Vietnam veteran, having flown 107 combat missions in 1966 and 1967.

Gary is married; has four children and three grandchildren. He and his wife Shirley currently live in their home in Chandler, AZ while having another home in Dalton, MA

Yuriy is a native of Ukraine, and a top honor graduate of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania with a BA in International Business and Marketing. He is also a recent graduate of Kiev International Science University with an MBA in International Economics. Yuriy has been with the company for over five years.

Yuriy is responsible for the development, management and growth of Logistics Plus’ export division. He is extensively involved in managing/auditing LPI’s international offices. Over the past year he has traveled to Germany, Belgium, the UK, Turkey and China to implement Logistics Plus’ operating/accounting software Cargowise, in an effort to integrate LPI with its fifteen foreign offices. Yuriy also works closely with LP’s Eastern European offices and LP Kazakhstan on further development of those regions. He is fluent in Ukrainian, Russian and English.

Born in Boston, MA and raised in West Newton, MA.

Graduate of University of Massachusetts – Amherst with BA in Business Administration 1983.

Moved to Baltimore, MD in September 1984.

Employed by Samuel Shapiro & Company (no relation) from September 1984 through early November 2007. Roles included Export Manager, Sales Director, VP of Transportation & Agent Development. Passed customs broker exam October 1986 and obtained customs broker license in May 1987.

Past President of Baltimore Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association. Previously served on the Board of Governors of the Traffic Club of Baltimore.

Founded Thunderbolt Global Logistics,LLC in Baltimore, MD with childhood friend Stu Tobin in late November 2007. Obtained OTI license January 16,2008. Thunderbolt has a special focus on project cargo. Currently we are awaiting corporate customs brokerage license approval from CBP.

Thunderbolt has 7 employees including founding partners.

Jim lives in Baltimore with his wife Meira and 3 daughters Ruby age 4, Beatrice age 2 and Alice 5 months

Lisa Gordon is a recent addition to the steel team at AMM. She has arrived from a competing trade journal where she wrote over 1,700 articles in two years. In her short tenure she has gained an understanding of the North American market.

Her primary focus is on the ferrous scrap market as she considers it to be the pulse of the industry as it directly impacts steel prices, but Lisa keeps an eye on all sectors of steelmaking to maintain a macro view of the market.

She previously worked at Pittsburgh's daily paper where she won numerous awards for her work. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh.

Jim Elliott joined Alcan Smelters and Chemicals in Montreal Quebec in May of 1981. While in Montreal he held positions as Warehousing Analyst and Metals Analyst for their North American Distribution and Logistics Group.

In 1992, Jim and his family moved to Cleveland Ohio where he became Manager of Logistics for Alcan Recycling. In this capacity, he was responsible for the total logistics related to the aluminum scrap moving into Alcan’s recycling facilities.

Jim accepted the position of Used Beverage Container (UBC) Acquisition Manager in August of 1999 and in addition to his Logistics function was responsible for the overall purchase of UBC sourced from within Canada. In August of 2001, Jim accepted to sit as a director on an internal Alcan committee charged with gauging and optimizing Alcan’s global supply chain strategies.

In March of 2004, Jim was named Novelis’s Logistics Manager for their North American operations directing corporate strategy between the North American business groups.

In January of 2005 Alcan Aluminum spun off its global rolling operations to become Novelis Corporation which in May of 2007 was purchased by Hindalco Industries of Mumbai, India.

Jim continues to lead the North American operations and has recently assumed some strategic responsibilities for Novelis’s Global Logistics.

Ed Hamorsky is currently the Director of Logistics and Transportation for Alcoa Materials Management with an emphasis on North American operations, which he has held since November 2004. His role is accountable for all carrier sourcing, administration, strategic, execution and payment strategies for all domestic & international functions. Alcoa’s spends ~ $500 million annually for carrier services in North America. In 2008, he began collaborating with Alcoa’s European operations to deploy similar tools, organizational structures and strategies in Europe that had been successful in North America. In July 2009, his group took over the logistics management for capital projects related to Alcoa’s global expansion of new facilities and the equipment upgrading of current manufacturing plants.

Since joining Alcoa in 1985, Ed has held a variety of positions with a focus in transportation. Prior to Alcoa, he worked for Gulf Oil Company.

He is currently a member of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, the National Freight Transportation Association and the National Industrial Transportation League.

Ed lived in the western Pennsylvania area prior to his current assignment in Knoxville, TN, where he relocated in January 2005. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business from the University of Pittsburgh. He and his wife, Patty, have one son and one daughter.

Brian Kluge has a Bachelors in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and an

MBA – Marketing from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

During his career at Ryerson, Mr. Kluge has held numerous roles in several divisions:

Plastics Division:

Operations Manager – Plastics Division

Manager Marketing and Sales to Transportation Segment – Plastics Division

General Manager – Plastics Divison

Metals group:

Plant Supervision

Manager Safety, Training and Engineering

General Manager - Operations and Logistics

Director – Corporate Operations and Logistics

Rosalyn Wilson has been practicing in the transportation and logistics field for over thirty years. She is a widely recognized expert in transportation economics and supply chain security. Rosalyn is the author of the Annual State of Logistics Report® and the co-author of Securing Global Transportation Networks.

Rosalyn is the president of a small transportation consulting firm established in 1996 and earlier this year she joined Delcan Corporation as a Senior Business Analyst. Prior to that she spent six years with an information technology security firm that operated primarily in the defense and intelligence market spaces. She was a senior consultant with Booz|Allen|Hamilton's transportation group, supporting their efforts in transport, trade, and technology both domestically and internationally.

She was a director at the Eno Transportation Foundation, managing several of the Foundation's major programs and publications. Rosalyn also has extensive railroad industry experience, having served in various capacities for over 11 years at the Association of American Railroads (AAR).

John Gallardo is President and CEO of PLS Logistics Services.

Mr. Gallardo possesses a broad knowledge of the transportation and asset and non-asset based logistics

industries with significant experience in growing and leading successful organizations.

He joined PLS in October 2007 following a long career with Eagle Global Logistics where he was Senior Vice President of Administration. Mr. Gallardo also held a number of management positions during his 14 years with Roadway Express.

Mr. Gallardo is a 1981 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, where he earned his degree in Management and Quantitative Business.

Scott Robertson is the Chief Correspondent, Steel for AMM and has been with the publication since 1994, covering both the stainless and carbon steel industries.

Robertson has been a reporter in and around the Pittsburgh area for almost 25 years, including stints with the Tribune-Review, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Business Times.

His work also has appeared in The New York Times, the Dallas Morning News and the Edmonton Journal, among others. A winner of Pennsylvania journalism's Golden Quill and Keystone Press awards, he has also worked as a radio host with several Pittsburgh area business programs.

Robertson is a graduate of Waynesburg (PA) College.