Harsco CEO and leadership

F. Nicholas Grasberger serves as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, to which he was appointed in August 2014. Before that, he served as Senior Vice president and Chief Financial Officer from April 2013 to November 2014, and President and Chief Operating Officer from April 2014 to August 2014. Mr. Grasberger joined Harsco in 2013 from Fenner Plc, where he served three years as the Managing Director of their multinational Precision Polymers Division. Prior to Fenner, Mr. Grasberger served in increasingly responsible roles at Armstrong World Industries, first as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and later as Executive Vice President, where he concurrently served as President of Armstrong's Building Products division. He has also held positions as VP and Chief Financial Officer for Kennametal, Inc. and as Corporate Treasurer and director of the corporate planning process at H. J. Heinz Company. He started his career with USX Corporation. Mr. Grasberger holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

Russell Hochman serves as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary. Prior to joining Harsco in 2013, he served in senior legal roles with Pitney Bowes Inc. and leading law firms based in New York. He holds a J.D. from Albany Law School of Union University and a B.A. from Cornell University.

My career in the automotive, consumer products and manufacturing industries spans 30+ years in locales including Detroit, New York, Singapore, Shanghai, and Seoul as part of General Motors’ Ford and PepsiCo’s Executive Communications teams-and now Harrisburg, PA as VP, Global Communications for Harsco, a global 10,000-employee industrial and environmental services company servicing the steel, rail and energy industries. As a senior communications professional, I’ve built global teams, served as trusted and strategic counselor to senior leadership, navigated complex reputation management issues, launched dozens of products and directed complete company rebrands from web launch to market positioning.

In my role at Harsco, I lead a multinational, multidivisional world-class internal and external communications team. In this position, I’ve also led the development and launch of a Communications & Marketing Council, a cross-divisional thought-leadership team composed of mid and senior-level Marcomms staff, and built a comms and graphic design team from the ground up at Harsco’s Global Service Centre (GSC) in Hyderabad, India, all while achieving a 97 percent “highest possible satisfaction” rating among colleagues.

When I’m not in the office I enjoy leisure travel with my family, long dog-walks with my wife, watching #BobcatNation Bates College Men’s lacrosse games, and being astounded by the creativity of my artist daughter. To be fair, I also like good food, good wine, great coffee and great people.

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F. Nicholas Grasberger serves as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, to which he was appointed in August 2014. Before that, he served as Senior Vice president and Chief Financial Officer from April 2013 to November 2014, and President and Chief Operating Officer from April 2014 to August 2014. Mr. Grasberger joined Harsco in 2013 from Fenner Plc, where he served three years as the Managing Director of their multinational Precision Polymers Division. Prior to Fenner, Mr. Grasberger served in increasingly responsible roles at Armstrong World Industries, first as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and later as Executive Vice President, where he concurrently served as President of Armstrong's Building Products division. He has also held positions as VP and Chief Financial Officer for Kennametal, Inc. and as Corporate Treasurer and director of the corporate planning process at H. J. Heinz Company. He started his career with USX Corporation. Mr. Grasberger holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.