Our Team

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Murali Collur (collurmurali@gmail.com)-

• 25 years (12 years Allegheny Ludlum, 
• 1 year Carpenter technology, 
• 4 years at Hofmann Industries-steel tubing, 
• 7 years at Arcelor Mittal, 
• 1 year at US steel, 
• 1 year NLMK) and starting up a cold steel plant at Acero Junction. 
• PhD in Materials science and engineering from Penn State University and 
• MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. 
• Murali has 10 publications in steel process improvement. 
• He also worked as metals industry consultant with Accenture.

Prabhat Rastogi (pkrastogi@msn.com): 

• 45 years of experience at Inland steel, Arcelor Mittal and Severstal/AK Steel. 
• Prabhat has worked in research followed by Marketing area. PhD in Materials science and engineering from California Institute of Technology
• MBA from Northwestern University. 
• 8 patents-silicon steel, PK, 30 publications

Gopal Govindaswamy (ggopalg@yahoo.com): 

• 30 years of experience in steel industry (Mittal Steel, ArcelorMittal, Cleveland Cliffs) and UMECC. 
• Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering in Honors from University of Madras, 
• Executive MBA from University of West Indies.