GrafTech International Ltd. (NYSE: EAF) announced the appointment of Rory O’Donnell as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, effective September 3, 2024. In his new role, O’Donnell will join the company’s executive leadership team and report directly to Chief Executive Officer and President Timothy Flanagan. He will be responsible for overseeing all financial operations of the company.
Timothy Flanagan, CEO and President, expressed his confidence in O’Donnell’s appointment, stating, “We are excited to welcome Rory as our new CFO. His extensive financial expertise and leadership experience will be invaluable as we move forward.”
O’Donnell brings a wealth of experience from his previous roles, most recently serving as Senior Vice President, Controller, and Principal Accounting Officer at Covia Corporation, a provider of mineral-based solutions for industrial and energy markets. He also served as Interim Chief Financial Officer at Covia from August 2022 to July 2023. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President, Controller at Signet Jewelers Limited (NYSE: SIG) from 2014 to 2019, and held the position of Director, Accounting & Reporting at Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (NYSE: CLF), a major steel producer in North America. O’Donnell began his career at KPMG LLP, a professional services firm. He holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Dayton and is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Ohio.
About GrafTech
GrafTech International Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of high-quality graphite electrode products essential to the production of electric arc furnace steel and other ferrous and non-ferrous metals. The Company has a competitive portfolio of low-cost, ultra-high power graphite electrode manufacturing facilities, with some of the highest capacity facilities in the world. We are the only large-scale graphite electrode producer that is substantially vertically integrated into petroleum needle coke, our key raw material for graphite electrode manufacturing. This unique position provides us with competitive advantages in product quality and cost.
