GrafTech Announces Appointment of Marcel Kessler as Chief Executive Officer and President, Effective July 1, 2022
29 6월 2022 - 5:29AM
Business Wire
GrafTech International Ltd. (NYSE: EAF) (“GrafTech” or the
“Company”) announced today that Marcel Kessler has been appointed
as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and President, and has
been elected to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), all
effective July 1, 2022. David J. Rintoul, the Company’s current
Chief Executive Officer and President, previously informed the
Company of his intention to retire from the Company and resign from
the Board effective as of June 30, 2022.
Mr. Kessler previously served as the President and Chief
Executive Officer of Pason Systems Inc. (TSX: PSI) (“Pason”), a
global provider of specialized data management systems for oil and
gas drilling, from 2011 to 2020, and has been a director of Pason
since 2012 and is currently serving as the Chairman of the Board of
Directors of Pason. Before joining Pason in 2011, Mr. Kessler was
President, North America, of Exploration Logistics Group, an
assistance, medical, safety and security solutions provider,
President and Chief Executive Officer of CCR Technologies, a
provider of solvent reclaiming services, and was a Partner at
McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm.
“The board of directors is pleased to announce Marcel’s
appointment as Chief Executive Officer and believes that he is the
right person to lead GrafTech through the next phase of the
Company’s growth,” said Denis Turcotte, Chairman of the Board of
GrafTech. “Marcel’s track record as a chief executive officer of a
public company in a complementary industry, combined with his
vision for GrafTech, bodes well for our stakeholders and employees.
I look forward to working with Marcel,” said Mr. Turcotte. “We
thank Dave Rintoul for his dedication and we wish him well in his
retirement.”
About GrafTech
GrafTech International Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of
high-quality graphite electrode products essential to the
production of electric arc furnace steel and other ferrous and
non-ferrous metals. The Company has a competitive portfolio of
low-cost, ultra-high power graphite electrode manufacturing
facilities, including three of the highest capacity facilities in
the world. We are the only large-scale graphite electrode producer
that is substantially vertically integrated into petroleum needle
coke, a key raw material for graphite electrode manufacturing. This
unique position provides us with competitive advantages in product
quality and cost.
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