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. Ternium owns a 51.5% interest in Usiminas of Brazil. The company has an annual produ ...

, 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

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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

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, 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

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(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

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

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and an executive program in the

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

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