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Mr. Navetta a Detroit native graduated from Michigan State University in 1969 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
Following graduation Mr. Navetta began his career with U. S. Steel as an accounting trainee at Gary Works in Indiana. In 1972 he moved to Pittsburgh and held a number of financial positions with the Chemicals Division. In 1975 he returned to Indiana as manager-accounting Molded Plastic Products and in 1976 was appointed manager-accounting West Coast for the U. S. Steel Products Division in Alameda Calif. Three years later in 1979 he was promoted to staff assistant for the company’s Central Steel Division in Chicago.
Mr. Navetta returned to Pittsburgh in 1981 as staff supervisor-commercial analysis and progressed through a series of managerial accounting posts. In 1985 he was appointed manager-accounting for Fairless Works near Philadelphia. He moved back to Pittsburgh in 1987 as director-analysis and general accounting and two years later was named general manager-administration and group comptroller for the Diversified Group.
In 1992 he was appointed comptroller-raw materials for Diversified Business and Joint Ventures a position which included representing the company on the management committees for USS-POSCO Industries USS/Kobe Steel Company PRO-TEC Coating Company and Double Eagle Steel Coating Company all joint ventures of U. S. Steel. Mr. Navetta returned to Gary Works as general manager-plate products in 1994.
In 2001 Mr. Navetta was named president of USX Engineers and Consultants Inc. and served in that post until December 2002 when he was appointed executive vice president of U. S. Steel Koice (USSK) with responsibility for all operations and administrative functions. He was promoted to president of USSK in 2003. In 2005 he returned to headquarters as senior vice president-procurement logistics and diversified businesses.
Mr. Navetta is a Certified Management Accountant and a member of the Institute of Management Accountants. | 