Reliance Steel & Aluminum Names New Corporate Officers
10/31/2008 - Reliance Steel & Aluminum announces the appointment of a new Senior Vice President—Operations, and new Chief Information Officer.
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. announced the appointment of two additional officers: James D. Hoffman as Senior Vice President—Operations, and Colleen A. Wolf as Chief Information Officer.
Hoffman, 50, joined the Earle M. Jorgensen Co. (which is now a subsidiary of Reliance Steel & Aluminum) in 1991, where he has served as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President since 2006. Prior to joining Earle M. Jorgenson, he worked at various positions at United States Steel Corp. (from 1980 to 1991). Hoffman graduated from West Virginia University with a B.S. degree in Advertising/Marketing.
Prior to joining Reliance, Colleen Wolf, 44, served as Vice President of North American Business Systems for Starbucks Coffee Co. She also served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of New Century Financial Corp., and spent ten years in various positions in the Information Technology organization of Mattel, Inc., most recently as Vice President, Supply Chain and Corporate Finance Systems. She received a B. S. degree in Computing Science from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
“Reliance has grown considerably over the past few years and as a Fortune 500 company we plan to continue along that path for the future,” commented David H. Hannah, Chairman of the Board and CEO. “In order to accomplish this, we must have the management depth necessary for competing effectively in today’s business environment. Jim’s and Colleen’s expertise will favorably benefit the company going forward.”
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., Reliance Steel & Aluminum is the largest metals service center company in North America. Through a network of more than 200 locations in 39 states and Belgium, Canada, China, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea and the U.K., the company provides value-added metals-processing services and distributes a full line of over 100,000 metal products to more than 125,000 customers in a broad range of industries.
The company was named to the 2008 “Fortune 500” List, the Fortune 2008 List of “America’s Most Admired Companies” the 2008 Forbes “America’s Best Managed Companies” List, the 2008 Forbes “Platinum 400 List of America’s Best Big Companies” and the 2008 Fortune “100 Fastest Growing Companies” List.
