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Biography

Early life

His father was Jerome Robinson (1929-2009), the founder of

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and a prominent philanthropist in the Houston, Texas community. He graduated from

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and t ...

in 1979.Arts and Sciences: The magazine of Vanderbilt University's College of Arts and Sciences
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Career

From 1979 to 2002, he served as Chief Executive Officer of the family company, U.S. Zinc, and sold it to Imco Recycling. From 2002 to 2004, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Metaleurop, French-German publicly owned company specializing in

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and

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. In 2006, he founded

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and sold it to

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in 2009,. In 2010, he founded

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, a global steel dust recycling company headquartered in Switzerland.Swiss bank on steel dust plant
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'', September 29, 2011 He currently serves as its Chief Executive Officer. The company has ongoing steel dust recycling plants projects in Saudi Arabia and South Korea. It recycles steel dust and produces crude zinc oxide for further reprocessing by zinc smelters. He sits on the Board of Directors of

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References

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