Cliffs Appoints New Vice President
04/26/2010 - Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. has appointed William J. McFadden as a Vice President, Commercial – North American Iron Ore, for Cliffs Sales Co., effective April 26. He is responsible for iron ore sales and marketing.
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. has appointed William J. McFadden as a Vice President, Commercial – North American Iron Ore, for Cliffs Sales Co., effective April 26. McFadden now holds responsibility for Cliffs' North American Iron Ore iron ore sales and marketing, and reports directly to Terry Mee, Vice President, Sales and Transportation.
McFadden joins Cliffs with extensive experience in raw materials procurement and transportation logistics, having most recently supported U.S. Steel's North American operations as General Manager – Raw Materials. He was also General Manager – Purchasing and Deputy General Manager – Raw Materials at U.S. Steel's European operations.
McFadden has lived and worked in Eastern Europe at various times in his career, including assignments in Moscow, Russian Federation, and Kosice, Slovakia. Prior to his position at U.S. Steel, he held operational and managerial positions with the Defense Intelligence Agency in the United States Department of Defense, Booz Allen Hamilton, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
“Bill’s experience and knowledge in the global raw materials markets fits well with our corporate strategy as Cliffs strengthens its market position in the U.S. and internationally,” said Don Gallagher, Cliffs' President, North American business unit. “His contributions to our continued success should be significant, and we are pleased to welcome him to the Cliffs team.”
In addition to a B.A. in Chemistry and Slavic Studies from West Virginia University, McFadden holds an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Indiana University, as well as an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.
Cliffs Natural Resources, an international mining and natural resources company, is the largest producer of iron ore pellets in North America, a major supplier of direct-shipping lump and fines iron ore out of Australia and a significant producer of metallurgical coal.
The company is organized through three geographic business units in North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company’s North American business unit comprises six iron ore mines owned or managed in Michigan, Minnesota and Canada and two coking coal mining complexes located in West Virginia and Alabama. The Asia Pacific business unit comprises two iron ore mining complexes in Western Australia and a 45% economic interest in a coking and thermal coal mine in Queensland, Australia. The Latin American business unit includes a 30% interest in the Amapá Project, an iron ore project in the state of Amapá in Brazil.
Other projects under development include a biomass fuel production plant in Michigan and Ring of Fire chromite properties in Ontario, Canada. Over recent years, Cliffs has been executing a strategy designed to achieve scale in the mining industry and focused on serving the world's largest and fastest-growing steel markets.
