Biographies

PETER F. MARCUS Managing Partner Tel: (201) 503-0902 Peter F. Marcus, a steel securities analyst, is founder of World Steel Dynamics and a consultant to the steel industry. He began his career on Wall Street in 1961 with L.F. Rothschild & Co. In early 1999, after 28 years at PaineWebber, Peter with his World Steel Dynamics staff formed their own separate and independent company. Peter graduated from Cornell University in 1960 and received a MBA from New York University in 1965.		KARLIS M. KIRSIS Managing Partner Tel: (201) 503-0905 Karlis M. Kirsis, has researched the steel industry for more than 30 years, since 1978 in partnership with Peter Marcus. Karlis is responsible for coordinating WSD's business, publishing and marketing operations. He oversees the research projects of its staff and authors his own studies. Karlis has an engineering degree from Northeastern University and a MBA from the Columbia Business School
	Patrick A. McCormick Managing Partner Tel: (201) 503-0920 Patrick A. McCormick, a commercial veteran of global steel buying has recently joined World Steel Dynamics. Pat has previously held various engineering and procurement management positions during his 30-year career at Emerson. His specializations are global strategy development, supplier relationship management, and industry analysis. Pat is a member of the Institute of Supply Chain Management and holds a MBA from Washington University.
Sheryl Iwanski Managing Partner Tel: (201) 503-0910 Sheryl Iwanski joined WSD in 1989. She previously worked as a security analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert. She has a MBA from Pace University and a BA from the University of Nebraska. She is responsible for WSD's World Cost Curves and Global Metallics Balances systems.		Becky E. Hites Managing Partner Tel: (201) 503-0935 Becky E. Hites began her Wall Street career in 1986 at Atlanta based Robinson-Humphrey. Since joining WSD in 2003 to work on a banking project, she has developed new aspects of the early warning system including the Steel Thermometer and The Cyclone, and overseas publication of the Chinese Core Report and Zhe Zhang Zones. Becky has an Economics degree from the State University of West Georgia and a MBA from Georgia State University.