Chris Plummer has been company Managing Director and Chief Steel Industry Consultant for Metal Strategies Inc., a leading international management consulting company in the field of steel, metals and mining since 1998.  He and the firm provide a wide range of advisory and consulting services to the steel, metals and mining industries related to strategy, commercial, financial performance, labor, and technical-engineering support.  Mr. Plummer is one of the most widely-known industry analysts with nearly 25 years of experience.  His previous positions include:

• Managing Director and Senior Vice President, World Steel Consulting for the 400-member CRU International (Commodity Research Unit) -London
  
  
• Managing Director and Senior Vice President of World Steel and Metals Industry Practice for Chase Manhattan Bank.
  
  
• Managing Director, World Steel, Metals and Mining Consulting for Standard & Poor’s DRI-WEFA (now Global Insight) the world’s leading and largest business analysis and forecasting company, founded by 1981 Nobel Economics Laureate Lawrence Klein.