Cliffs CEO and Leadership

Q: Who Is the CEO Of Cliffs?

The CEO of Cliffs is C. Lourenço Gonçalves.

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Cliffs CEO and Executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, C. Lourenço Gonçalves is the Cliffs's CEO. Cliffs has 25,000 employees, of which 32 are in a leadership position.

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The Cliffs executive team is 34% female and 66% male.
68% of the management team is White.
13% of Cliffs management is Hispanic or Latino.
11% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

C. Lourenço Gonçalves

Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Goncalves brings more than 30 years of experience in the metals and mining industries, as well as extensive Board experience in the United States and abroad. Mr. Goncalves is currently working as Chief Executive Officer at Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.

Samuel Mather

Founder

James D. Graham

Executive Vice President

James Graham is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary of Cliffs Natural Resources Inc, responsible for ensuring coordinated legal advice and counsel, and overseeing public reporting requirements and administration of Cliffs’ code of business conduct and ethics compliance program. He also provides direct corporate secretarial support to the Board of Directors and its Committees.

Keith A. Koci

Exec VP/CFO

Keith A. Koci is an Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC..

Clifford T. Smith

Exec VP/COO

Clifford Smith is a Board Member at AK STEEL HOLDING CORP, Exec VP/COO at CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC., and President/COO at AK STEEL HOLDING CORP and is based in Cleveland, Ohio. He has worked as Resident Engineer at Amax Coal West, Exec VP:Seaborne Iron Ore at CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC., and Director Purchasing at Asarco. Clifford attended South Dakota School of Mines and Technology between 1978 and 1983.

Terry G. Fedor

EVP and COO, Steel Mills

As Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer - Steel Mills, Mr. Fedor has executive oversight for the newly acquired AK Steel mills and the metallics segment’s HBI plant operation. He was previously Executive Vice President - Operations for Cliffs, maintaining leadership oversight for Mining and Pelletizing operations, as well as transportation and logistics functions, supply chain and asset management.

He has over 25 years of experience in industrial operations, having served as Vice President and General Manager - Cleveland at ArcelorMittal with responsibility for Warren, Weirton and Monessen steel operations.

Mr. Fedor earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio and a master’s degree in business administration from John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a Registered Professional Engineer with the state of Ohio, and currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Association for Iron & Steel Technology.

R. Christopher Cebula

Executive Vice President

R. Christopher Cebula is a SVP, Chief Administration Officer - Steel Mills at CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC..

Traci L. Forrester

Executive Vice President

Celso L. Goncalves

EVP, CFO

Brian K. Bishop

Executive Vice President

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Cliffs Founders

Name & TitleBio

Samuel Mather

Founder

Cliffs Board Members

Name & TitleBio

C. Lourenço Gonçalves

Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer

Douglas Craig Taylor

Board Member

Gabriel Stoliar

Board Member

Janet L. Miller

Board Member

Ralph S. Michael

Board Member

Robert P. Fisher

Board Member

Susan M. Green

Board Member

William K. Gerber

Board Member

Arlene M. Yocum

Board Member

John T. Baldwin

Board Member

Cliffs Leadership Demographics

Cliffs Gender Distribution in Management Team

The Cliffs executive team is 34% female and 66% male.
Cliffs is 29% female and 71% male company-wide.

Male

66%

Company-wide: 71%

Female

34%

Company-wide: 29%

Cliffs Executives by Race

Management Team:

The most common ethnicity among Cliffs executive officers is White.
68% of the management team is White.
13% of Cliffs's management is Hispanic or Latino.
11% of the management team is Black or African American.

Company-wide:

White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
69% of employees are White.
12% of employees are Black or African American.
10% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.

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Updated November 18, 2022

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