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Globe Specialty Metals
Management


Our management has broad experience in all aspects of the international metals manufacturing industry, including operations, marketing and finance. We also draw on a deep pool of technical know-how specific to our products and markets.

Alan Kestenbaum
Founder and Executive Chairman

  • Over 20 years' experience in metals trading, distribution, finance and manufacturing
  • Founded leading international metals trader, Marco International, in 1985 and led its expansion into China and former Soviet Union.
  • Managed a series of successful metals private equity transactions
  • Began his career in metals with Glencore and Philip Brothers in New York

Jeff Bradley
Chief Executive Officer/Chief Operating Officer

  • Over 25 years experience in the metals industry.
  • Former CEO of Claymont Steel, the country's leading custom steel plate producer. Led a successful IPO & three bond transactions, rebuilt the executive and senior level management teams. Spearheaded one of the largest capital investment programs in the company's history.
  • Over 20 year career at Worthington Industries, a $3 billion diversified metal processing company. Held numerous key roles in sales, investor relations, General Management and business development.
  • B.S. in Business Administration from Loyola College

Malcolm Appelbaum
Chief Financial Officer

  • President from 2000 until September 2008 of Appletree Advisors, Inc., a financial consulting and advisory firm he founded to serve the portfolio companies of private equity firms and senior and mezzanine lenders.
  • Served as Interim-Chief Financial Officer for several underperforming companies and assisted others as an outside consultant while at Appletree Advisors.
  • Principal between 1992 and 2000 at Wand Partners Inc., a private equity investor. Was the financial officer responsible for the firm and worked extensively with portfolio companies and developed an investment practice closing several platform and add-on acquisitions.
  • Worked as an associate at M&T Bank, a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs and a senior consultant and senior accountant at Deloitte and Touche.
  • B.S. in Accounting from Brooklyn College and an M.B.A. from Columbia University

Stephen Lebowitz
Chief Legal Officer

  • Formerly Chief Counsel to BP plc's jet fuel, marine, and solar energy divisions from 2001 to 2008.
  • Private practice both as a partner at Ridberg, Press and Aaronson and as an associate with Kaye Scholer during the period 1996 through 2001.
  • Began his career in the international trade area with the US government.
  • B.A. University of Vermont, J.D. George Washington University, Fulbright Scholar, LLM College of Europe.

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