Tom is the Executive Vice President of Esmark and is President of Esmark Steel Services Group. With more than 25 years of diversified steel industry experience, Tom's career includes senior management and operations posts with U.S. Steel. His specific expertise includes manufacturing of sheet finishing with experience in rolling and coating both electro and hot dipped galvanize.
His background includes senior management positions with a rapidly growing family business as the Executive Vice President that was later sold to a Fortune 500 company. Tom joined Esmark in 2003 and was instrumental in assembling a team that made Esmark's first acquisition, Electric Coating Technologies, a success.
Tom's experience encompasses new plant start-up, business plan development, workforce management, and labor relations in both union and non-union environments. Tom was past President of Double Eagle Steel Coating Company, a joint venture of U.S. Steel and Rouge Steel, where he spent 10 years successfully launching and eventually running the largest and most automated coating line in the world. While at Double Eagle, Tom invented a device for improved current transfer in a radial cell that had significant bottom line implications. A U.S. Patent 5,609,767 was awarded for this device.
Tom's vast experience in both mill and service center operations, along with his knowledge of large business discipline and the entrepreneurial spirit that drives smaller companies, have been an invaluable asset to Esmark.
Tom holds a B.A. degree in Mathematics from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
His specific expertise includes manufacturing of sheet finishing with experience in rolling and coating both electro and hot dipped galvanize.