From Steel to the Cloud: Phoenix Global's CIO/CTO Talks Transformation
InformationWeek, Monday, June 2nd, 2025
Change management under Jeff Suellentrop took the provider of metal recovery services from analog to digital for a fresh start after a reorganization.
Providing services to steel mills and mines around the world can call for real-world, heavy lifting. So when Phoenix Global decided it was time for digital transformation as new leadership took the helm, it needed a fresh plan to embrace the cloud.
Jeff Suellentrop, chief information and technology officer for Phoenix Global, says the company works with some 17 steel mill sites in the US and abroad, offering slag remediation and metals recovery. 'We operate all the heavy equipment, large loaders, dump trucks and basically all the heavy equipment in the steel mill,' he says. 'We help process the byproduct of slags.'