United States Steel Corporation Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer David B. Burritt has announced two executive appointments. James F. Dudek has been named vice president – asset revitalization & manufacturing excellence, and Pipasu H. Soni will serve as vice president – finance. Both appointments were effective Feb. 1.
Dudek and Soni will continue to be based at the company’s Pittsburgh headquarters, and both will join the company’s executive management team.
Dudek will be responsible for working with the organization’s Commercial Entities to develop and implement U. S. Steel’s asset revitalization strategy, oversee product quality for all North American Flat-Rolled operations, and accelerate company-wide reliability centered maintenance efforts. In addition, he will retain leadership for the company’s engineering and Carnegie Way transformation organizations.
Soni will retain his current leadership of U. S. Steel’s financial planning and analysis (FP&A) activities, which includes corporate FP&A and Commercial Entity finance. He will also retain responsibility for strategy and business development. He will assume added leadership for corporate controllership, corporate risk management and treasury functions.
