PROTRADE STEEL - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Chairman of the Board
• Founder

Our founder and now chairman of the board, Jack Kessick Jr. had a successful career in the steel business working for companies like The David J. Joseph (now owned by Nucor) and Luria Brothers. In 1994, he decided to branch out on his own and start ProTrade Steel, at that time a scrap metal trading only business. As the business grew there was a larger vision to turn the trading only business into a fully integrated scrap metal company. Jack brought on four more key players who were also David J. Joseph veterans and began to try and combat the attrition of customers and suppliers that was happening due to the mass consolidation and mergers happening in the late 90s and early 2000s.