Fireside Chat with Cleveland-Cliffs, How They are Transforming the Company

800 Euclid Avenue,Cleveland OH 44114

04 May, 2022

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Fireside Chat with Cleveland-Cliffs CFO, Celso L. Goncalves and Paul Finan, SVP of Finance, How They are Transforming the Company Join CFA Society Cleveland for our new series: Economic Insights on Cleveland Companies. Cleveland-Cliffs will be the first of several companies that will join us for lunch and share what is new with their company and how they are transforming for our new economic times. Join us May 4th at The City Club for a Fireside Chat with Cleveland-Cliffs CFO, Celso L. Goncalves and Paul Finan, SVP of Finance, and find How They are Transforming the Company Celso Goncalves – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Mr. Celso L. Goncalves is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He leads the financial organization for Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., with executive responsibility for Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Investor Relations, and Business Development. Prior to his present role, Mr. Goncalves was Senior Vice President of Finance & Treasurer, managing the company’s cash, liquidity, and capital structure, as well as business development initiatives by evaluating and executing M&A transactions and capital investments. Prior to joining Cleveland-Cliffs, Mr. Goncalves worked in the Industrials Investment Banking group at Deutsche Bank in New York, executing capital markets and strategic advisory transactions for corporate and private equity clients globally. Before Deutsche Bank, he worked in the Leveraged Finance group at Jefferies in New York, structuring and executing High Yield and Leveraged Loan transactions. Mr. Goncalves was also one of the founding members of the Latin America Investment Banking group at Jefferies, based in New York and São Paulo, Brazil. Mr. Goncalves earned his Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He has also passed the FINRA Securities Industry Essentials Exam, FINRA Series 79 Investment Banking Representative Exam, and FINRA Series 63 Uniform Securities Agent State Law Exam. Mr. Goncalves is a Certified Treasury Professional (C.T.P.) by the Association of Financial Professionals. Paul Finan – Senior Vice President of Finance Mr. Paul Finan serves as Senior Vice President of Finance at Cleveland-Cliffs, where he leads the company’s financial planning, analysis investor relations, credit and receivables functions. Mr. Finan has worked for Cleveland-Cliffs since 2010. Prior to his current role, Mr. Finan served in a variety of capacities within the financial organization at Cleveland-Cliffs, including head of investor relations, corporate internal audit and operational financial planning at the company’s Tilden Mine in Ishpeming, Michigan. Mr. Finan graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in finance from the University of Akron.