Chicago – The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) announced the election of James G. Thompson, president of Palmer Steel Supplies, Inc., McAllen, Texas, as the new chair of its board of directors, and David Zelesne, president of Owen Steel Company, Inc., Columbia, S.C., as the new vice chair.
Hollie Noveletsky
The board also welcomed two new directors: Hollie Noveletsky, CEO of Novel Iron Works, Inc., Greenland, N.H., and Robert A. Simon, vice president of structural products at Steel Dynamics, Inc., Columbia City, Ind.
Noveletsky started working at Novel Iron Works while enrolled at Lawrence University. After her father, who was president of Novel, passed away in 1999, she stepped into the company full time.
She also joined the Steel Fabricators of New England (SFNE) and eventually became president, where she spearheaded a change of the organizational structure.
