Daniel Agustín Novegil is an Argentine business executive. He is currently the chief executive officer of

Ternium Ternium S.A. is a manufacturer of flat and long steel products with production centers in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, and the United States. It is the leading steel company in Latin America with highly integrated processes to m ...

, main company in the steelmaking industry of Latin America. Novegil leads this firm since 2005, after working as Executive Director of Siderar (Argentina), Sidor (Venezuela), Hylsa and IMSA (México).

Professional career

In 1978, Daniel Novegil entered

Techint Techint is an Argentine conglomerate founded in Milan in 1945 by Italian industrialist Agostino Rocca and headquartered in Milan (Italy) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). As of 2019 the Techint Group is composed of six main companies in the following ...

in the planning and new business area. In 1993, he became General Director of Siderar, the main steelmaking company in Argentina. He was Sidor’s Executive Director from 1997 to 2003, until President

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nationalized the Venezuelan firm in 2008. In 2005, Novegil led the purchase of Hylsa, based in Monterrey, Mexico, giving birth to

. Two years later, he negotiated the acquisition of IMSA, creating the largest steelmaking company in Latin America. From that moment onwards, Daniel Novegil is the company’s CEO. In 2012,

became part of

Usiminas Usiminas is one of the largest producers of steel in the Americas, with major steel mills in Brazil with a total capacity of 9.5 million metric tons of steel per year. The company accounts for 28% of total steel output in Brazil. Usiminas has an ...

’ control group, after the acquisition of 27,7% of the Brazilian Steelmaking Company. Daniel Novegil is a member of its board of directors, an active member of the board of directors of the

World Steel Association World Steel Association, often abbreviated as worldsteel, is the international trade body for the iron and steel industry. The association is one of the largest and most dynamic industry associations in the world, with members in every major stee ...

, the international trade body that gathers 170 steel producers worldwide and an ALACERO Director (Latin American Steel Association).

Education

Daniel Novegil studied Industrial Engineering in

Universidad de Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires ( es, Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA) is a public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Established in 1821, it is the premier institution of higher learning in the country and one of the most prestigi ...

(UBA) from 1970 to 1975. In 1984 he obtained a Masters of Science in Management from

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, and has been a member of the advisory board of the Sloan Masters Program from the same university since 1999. In the 90s he carried out strategic planning studies in the

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology), a seminar of management in

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and an executive program in the

Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship The Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS; Japanese language, Japanese: 海外技術者研修協会) was established in 1959 with the support of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and ...

(A.O.T.S.) in Japan.

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