Company Management



David J. RINTOUL David J. RINTOUL
President

   David J. Rintoul (1957) joined U. S. Steel in 2007 as general manager-Granite City Works in Granite City, Ill., after having spent 30 years advancing through increasingly responsible management roles at Algoma Steel Corporation in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario; Rouge Steel Corporation in Dearborn, Mich.; Acme Steel Company in Riverdale, Ill.; and North Star BlueScope Steel in Delta, Ohio. In 2008, he advanced to general manager - Great Lakes Works in Ecorse and River Rouge, Mich. In March 2009, he was appointed president - U. S. Steel Canada Inc., adding management oversight for all U. S. Steel Canada operations to his existing responsibilities at Great Lakes Works.
   Rintoul earned an associate's degree in mechanical engineering technology from Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology in his native Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in 1979. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration from Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., in 1983 and received a master's degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame in 2006.
   He assumed his current position in January 2011.

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Matthew T. LEWIS Matthew T. LEWIS
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

   Matthew Todd Lewis graduated from West Virginia University in Morgantown in the year 1988 (Accounting focus), where he obtained degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. One year later the same institution awarded him the title MPA (Master of Professional Accountancy). He is also holds a Certified Public Accountant Certificate (CPA) of West Virginia State. Matthew T. Lewis is a member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
   Before coming to the United States Steel Corporation, Matthew T. Lewis devoted ten years to accounting and auditing activities and also acted as a independent consultant in the area of external financial reporting. He has held in the United States Steel Corporation since 2002 managing positions in the areas of accounting and financial reporting. During the years 2003 - 2006 he was active in U. S. Steel Kosice as director of external financial reporting Europe. He worked the following four years in U. S. Steel Serbia, d.o.o., where he was first the General Manager Accounting Services, then General Manager Analysis & Statistics, and from June 1st 2009 until now the Executive Director of Finance. He assumed his current position in August 2010.

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Mark G. TABLER Mark G. TABLER
Vice President Operations

   Mark G. Tabler (1961) is a native of Lima, Ohio, and earned a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from The Ohio State University in 1984. Tabler joined U. S. Steel in November 2006 as director-coke battery assessment at the company's Pittsburgh headquarters. Prior to arriving at U. S. Steel, he spent 19 years at AK Steel, where he advanced through increasingly responsible management positions, including general manager of the company's Butler (Pa.) Works and its Ashland (Ky.) Works. Tabler was appointed to his most recent position, plant manager-Clairton Plant, in March 2008.
   He assumed his position as Vice President Operations at U. S. Steel Kosice in December 2010.

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Elena PETRASKOVA Elena PETRASKOVA
Vice President Management Services & Administration

   Elena Petraskova graduated from law school at the University of P. J. Safarik in Kosice in 1992 and joined VSZ the same year as a litigation attorney. In 1993, she moved to the company's corporate law section and in 1999 advanced to section head of the group. She was appointed an assistant general counsel in U. S. Steel Kosice's law department in 2001 with responsibility for the commercial and corporate sections.
   In 2005, Petraskova accepted a one-year assignment in the law department at U. S. Steel's corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh. She returned to Slovakia in 2006 to serve once again as an assistant general counsel at U. S. Steel Kosice. In 2007, Petraskova relocated to Pittsburgh for a second assignment in the corporate law department. In the same year she was named general attorney - international law.
   Petraskova graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2009 with a degree in the Master of Laws Program for Foreign Law Graduates.
   She assumed her position as Vice President Management Services & Administration at U. S. Steel Kosice in March 2011.

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M.Pitorak Martin PITORAK
Vice President Human Resources

   Martin Pitorak (1957) graduated at the Technical University in Kosice, Faculty of Metallurgy in 1981. The same year he started working for VSZ at the Cold Rolling Mill, and worked in that plant until 1994, ultimately as Canning Sheet Production Manager. During 1995 - 1996 he was VSZ OCEL s.r.o. Sales Division Manager. In 1996 he took a retraining course in Production Management at Kansai Productivity Center in Japan.
   For the next two years he was VSZ Nakup s.r.o. Trading Activities Manager as well as VSZ OCEL Quality Department Manager. Since February 1998 he worked as Senior Manager for Personnel Matters and Quality in joint venture VSZ U. S. Steel. Since September 1999 until November 2000 he was VSZ a.s Vice President for Human Resources. Prior to his present appointment in 2007 as U. S. Steel Košice Vice President for Human Resources he held the post of U. S. Steel Košice Vice President Labor Relations and Motivation.
   From 2000 to 2005 he served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees in the Sidéria-Istota Health Insurance Company, and since Jan. 1st 2007 he has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Dôvera Health Insurance Company.

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Robert J. BELTZ Robert J. BELTZ
Vice President Commercial

   Robert Beltz (1969) is a native of Canonsburg, Pa., and graduated from Duquesne University in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in accounting. He earned a master's degree in business administration from the University of Michigan-Flint in 1997.
   Beltz joined the company in 1990 as a management associate in accounting and finance. After spending two years in the audit department, he moved into the company's commercial organization in 1993 and advanced through increasingly responsible positions over the next 14 years, including managerial roles in automotive sales and marketing at U. S. Steel's Automotive Center in Troy, Mich. In February 2007, Beltz relocated to the company's corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh when he was named director-market analysis and strategy. Later that year, he advanced to director-industry marketing. He assumed his most recent position, general manager-North American flat-rolled marketing, in April 2008.
   He assumed his current position in February 2010.

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Vladimir JACKO Vladimir JACKO
Vice President Technology

   Vladimir Jacko (1962) a native of Kosice graduated from Technical University in Kosice in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering. He finished post-graduate studies in economics in 1998. In 2002, he earned a master's degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh's Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. He obtained a doctorate degree from the Mining Faculty, Technical University in Kosice in 2007.
   Vladimir Jacko began his professional career as a teacher of electro-technical subjects and joined the former East Slovakian Steelworks in 1996 as a controller at the facility's power plant. Over the next five years he progressed through a series of increasingly responsible positions before being named deputy director of the power plant in 2001, one year after U. S. Steel had acquired the integrated steelmaking operation. In 2003, he was named general manager-energy for U. S. Steel Kosice and assumed added responsibility for transportation in 2005.
   In 2006, Jacko relocated to the United States after being named division manager-utilities, shops and services at U. S. Steel's Fairfield Works, an integrated steelmaking facility in Fairfield, Alabama. He returned to Kosice in January 2009 when he was named general manager-energy strategies. He advanced to the position Vice President Technology in March 2009.
   Jacko is President of the Association of Metallurgy, Mining and Geology, Chairman of the supervisory board of the Slovak Industry Association, President of the Hutnik civic association, member of the research boards of the faculties of Metallurgical and Electrical Engineering and BERG faculty at the Technical University of Kosice. He also became President of Kosice Ice-hockey Club in May 2011.

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John P. COYNE John P. COYNE
Vice President BSC Administration for USSE and Director Business Processes & ERP Integration

   John P. Coyne is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and graduated from Gannon University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. He subsequently earned a Masters of Business Administration degree from Duquesne University in 2001.
   John started his career with U. S. Steel in 1992 as a Process Control Engineer at the company's Mon Valley Works. Throughout the next five years he supported the steel making facilities at the Edgar Thomson Plant including assignments on the Duel Strand Caster and RH Degasser startup projects. In 1997 he moved to the Irvin Plant and advanced through a series of management positions in the Systems Department. In 1999 he was named Department Manager of the Mon Valley Communications Department having responsibility for information technology infrastructure for the Mon Valley facilities. In 2004 as the new Business Service Center organization was created John was named Mon Valley Process Lead within the Plant Processes Organization. In June 2006 he was assigned to the company's corporate headquarters as Technical Development Lead of the company's ERP project.
   John assumed his current position as Vice President of Business Service Center Administration in May 2011.

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Joseph A. NAPOLI Joseph A. NAPOLI
General Counsel

   Joseph A. Napoli was born in Rochester, Pennsylvania in 1956, obtained a B.A. degree in communications and international relations from Duquesne University in 1977 and a J.D. degree from the Duquesne University School of law in 1982. He joined U. S. Steel in 1990 with eight years experience in public and corporate finance.
   Before coming to U. S. Steel Kosice, his practice centred around corporate law, finance and mergers and acquisitions including the acquisition of U. S. Steel Kosice. He also represented U. S. Steel's credit division in loan origination, work-outs, restructurings and collections until its portfolio paid off in the late 1990s. He was named "Outstanding Volunteer Attorney of the Year" by the Executive Service Corps in 2003, has written for the ACC Docket, and served as a member of the Fellows Committee of the Allegheny County Bar Foundation, the Business Law Council of the Allegheny County Bar Association and as President of the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel.

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