Tampa, Florida-based Gerdau Long Steel North America announced this week that Guilherme Gerdau Johannpeter, president of Gerdau Long Steel North America, is being promoted to executive vice president and will join Gerdau's Executive Committee. In this role, he will be responsible for the Gerdau Special Steel business division (units in Brazil, Europe, North America and India). Mark Marcucci continues to be the executive leader of the global special steel business division and will report to Guilherme Johannpeter.
Peter Campo, vice president of supply chain for Gerdau Long Steel North America, is being promoted to president of the business division, effective today.
Johannpeter, currently based in Tampa, Fla., will relocate to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Prior to serving as president of Gerdau Long Steel North America, he served as the leader of Gerdau Special Steel North America, which he led until 2011. Prior to that, he was vice president of SBQ and wire rod operations at Gerdau Long Steel North America and joined the Gerdau Long Steel North America Executive Committee, accumulating responsibilities for part of downstream operations and the specials division.
Campo's new position is based in Tampa. Before his appointment as vice president of supply chain in 2013, Campo served as vice president of downstream operations. He was named vice president and general manager of the Northern Fabrication group in downstream in 2010 and became part of the business division's executive committee in 2009. Campo joined Gerdau in 2008 as the vice president of procurement and sales, planning and operations.