Gretchen Daniels
Vice President Procurement
Revere Copper Products, Inc
Gretchen is the vice president of procurement for Revere Copper Products.
She started her career with General Electric in operations, systems and procurement, before joining Revere in 1996.
She is responsible for all aspects of procurement and risk management.
Revere is a fabricator of sheet, plate, coil, strip, bar and extruded shapes and of a variety of copper and brass alloys.Gretchen holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Utica College of Syracuse University.
PRESIDENT
Vice President
Freeport-McMoRan Sales Company
Dennis Wright’s 20+ years in the copper industry began at Olin Brass. He later worked for Brush Wellman and Cyprus before joining Phelps Dodge in 1995. In his current position as Director Sales, Western Region, he is responsible for sales of copper rod and cathode.Dennis is a graduate of Colorado School of Mines, where he earned a degree in Metallurgical Engineering. He and his wife Sylvia live in Phoenix.
VICE PRESIDENT
Vice President
Aurubis
With more than 30 years of experience in the copper industry, Jeff is responsible for all aspects of metal procurement and risk management for Aurubis Buffalo, Inc. He is based at the Buffalo, NY plant which purchases refined copper and zinc, in addition to various grades of scrap, to produce a variety of alloys for automotive, air conditioning, ammunition and various other applications. Jeff has also been active in representing the copper fabrication industry in Washington on various issues including position limits and ETFs.Jeff has degrees in both metallurgy and industrial technology and is a licensed boat captain. Married with two children, he serves on the Boards of the American Copper Council, Literacy Volunteers of Buffalo and the Buffalo YMCA. He is a member of the Copper Club.
TREASURER
Senior Vice President
Red Kite Management USA, Inc.
Barry Feldman was educated at the State University of New York and is a Vietnam Vet. He has spent 40 years in the metals business and currently serves as Senior Vice President at Red Kite Management USA, Inc., a commodity hedge fund.Barry takes pride in the fact that he is a Pisces with blonde hair (what’s left of it!)
SECRETARY
Vice President Marketing –
Global Copper Cathode & Precious Metals
Rio Tinto/Kennecott Utah Copper
Vania Grandi is the general manager of marketing and sales of copper and precious metals at Rio Tinto's Kennecott Utah Copper operations. Rio Tinto is a world leader in discovering, mining and processing the earth's mining resources in an economically, socially and environmentally responsible way. Vania is based in Salt Lake City and has global responsibility for the marketing and sales of copper and precious metals from Kennecott Utah Copper as well as for the development of marketing strategies for Rio Tinto copper projects.
Prior to becoming general manager in 2008, Vania led Kennecott's Sustainable Development program for three years. Before joining Kennecott, she worked for the Associated Press in Italy as a reporter and editor. She also worked in public relations, media and communications for the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Committee.
Vania received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and her MBA from Westminster College in Utah. At Dartmouth, she was a member of the varsity Alpine Ski Team. She was captain of the team from 1991-1992 and All American in 1989 and 1992. She was a member of the Canadian National Alpine Ski Team from 1984-1988. She speaks fluent French, Spanish and Italian and is a Six Sigma black belt.
DIRECTORS
Vice President Metals Division
Senior Commodity Consultant
Rosenthal Collins Group
Megan is responsible for the development of corporate non-ferrous metals hedge business with an emphasis on copper for the Hudson, Ohio
Branch office of Rosenthal Collins Group serving as Vice President of their metals group. She has 15 years of experience in risk
management advising metals clients in the development of commodity hedge programs. She serves as their broker for their ongoing
hedge operations utilizing proprietary research tools to develop short and long term metal price programs that aid in their hedge
strategies. She also serves as a consultant to firms in pricing their metal raw materials. She is a member of the American Copper Council,
The Copper Club and The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. She holds a Bachelors degree from Northwood University
in Business Marketing, Economics, Management and an Associate’s degree in Advertising
Patricia Cauley
Associate Director, Products & Services
Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc.
Patricia Cauley is an associate director in products and services for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc.
She started her career in 1988 trading physical metals for Metallgesellschaft and later went to Asarco, Inc.,
where she headed the copper sales department in New York. From 2000 to 2002, she was the head of North American
sales and marketing for e-Metra, an electronic metals trading platform. Ms. Cauley holds bachelor’s
degrees in economics and French from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Paul Eaglin
Director – Sourcing
General Cable Corp.
Paul Eaglin has been Director of Sourcing for General Cable Corporation since 2009 with responsibilities for supplier selection, strategy,
and development for all copper and aluminum based raw materials, steel wire, packaging components, electricity and natural gas, and scrap
sales for 18 manufacturing facilities in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Paul's activities in North America support businesses with combined
revenues north of $1.5 billion. Paul started his career at General Cable after receiving his undergraduate degree in Business Management from Northern Kentucky University. While working at General Cable Paul received his MBA from Sir Thomas More College in 2007 and is a Six Sigma Greenbelt.
Mary Lou Hendricks
President
Cal-West Express Co. Ltd.
Mary Lou began her career in the transportation industry in 1972 in Portland, Oregon, with the Harper Shipping Company.
In 1976 she was transferred to Long Beach and was appointed vessel operations manager in Southern California -- the first woman to serve in this position!
She spent the next decade moving up through the ranks in the shipping/warehousing/distribution/ trucking industry. In 1987, Mary Lou and her husband Richard became business partners at Cal-West Express, a warehouse/distribution and trucking company. She was the first woman president of the Harbor Transportation Club of Long Beach and served as president and chairman of the International Trade Club of Southern California.
Mary Lou attended Seattle University and has 3 daughters and five grandchildren.
David Schilberg
Metal Buyer
Prime Materials Recovery, Inc.
David graduated from Northeastern University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting.
He moved to Charlotte, NC, to work for Ingersoll-Rand in their After -Market Finance Department.
In 2006, David realized that the metal recycling industry was where he was meant to be, and he moved
back to Connecticut to work for Prime Materials Recovery with his father and uncle.
Currently he is at PMR working as a Metals Buyer and managing the IMC-MetalsAmerica hedge book.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
American Copper Council