Alumni Achievement Award
Penn State Smeal College of Business has many alumni who have received the University
Alumni Achievement Award
The Alumni Achievement Award recognizes high achieving alumni no older than 35 years of age. The Penn State Alumni Association has established this award to stimulate more contact between prominent young alumni and the University community. They hope through this contact, to demonstrate particularly to students that Penn State alumni can succeed in exceptional fashion at an early age; that it does not necessarily take a lifetime to make one's mark on society. Award winners are invited back to campus to meet with students and faculty and share their experiences with them.
2007 Smeal College of Business Alumni Achievement Recipient
Alan Majewski '02 M.B.A. has been Standard Steel's Chief Financial Officer since 2002. At age 29, he was part of the team that bought the company's assets from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy estate in July 2002. From 2002 through 2006, Alan and the management team significantly restructured and grew the business. Culminating in June 2006, Alan worked with a major Wall Street investment bank to sell Standard Steel to Trimaran Capital Partners (a New York based private equity firm), with management retaining an ownership position in the Company. The Company is currently executing a strategy of growth through capital investment in its manufacturing plant located in Central Pennsylvania, and is a significant employer in the region.
Prior to Standard Steel, Alan was employed as an audit manager in Price Waterhouse's Pittsburgh office, where his clients included Westinghouse Electric Corp., Consolidated Natural Gas Co., and a variety of middle-market manufacturing companies.
He is a member of the board of directors of the Pittsburgh Chapter of Financial Executives International and a graduate of Pittsburgh's Leadership Development Initiative XII. In November 2006, the Pittsburgh Business Times awarded Alan their 2006 "CFO of the Year" award in the large private company category.
Alan is a native of Erie, Pennsylvania. He holds a B.S. in Accounting from Grove City College and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is also a 2002 M.B.A. graduate of Smeal, where he was a member of the first place team in the 2001 Big Ten MBA Case Competition.
