Mr. Griffin has 40 years of experience managing all aspects of healthy and distressed industrial manufacturing. Mike has held senior executive positions including Board Director, CEO, and President at various companies facing complex business challenges, including American Zinc Recycling and Inmetco. In these roles, he applied experience gained while managing numerous plants for Reynolds Metals, Noranda, and Alcoa. Mike is a creative leader with extensive experience in corporate management, labor relations, capital project and maintenance optimization, commercial contract negotiation and development, financial management, and process improvement. He has successfully applied this broad set of business and technical skills to improve the productivity and profitability of companies (with limited capital expenditure) and to guide underperformers successfully through Chapter 11 and 7 bankruptcies, and M&A/sales processes.  

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Most recently, as CEO and Board Director of Metals Recovery Holdings, Mr. Griffin oversaw businesses with approximately $600 million annual revenue. His responsibilities included the $300 million capital rebuild and restart of an AZP recycled zinc smelter. 

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At Inmetco, a small, recycled metals company, Mike implemented a bankruptcy and a full pre-petition sales process. Inmetco ultimately filed Chapter 7 due to a furnace failure and resulting lack of buyer interest. Mike assisted the Trustee with the Chapter 7 sales process for $1.4 million. 

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Mr. Griffin previously held the position of Primary Aluminum President and VP of Manufacturing at Noranda Aluminum, where he was responsible for stabilizing a $500 million business, and all aspects of the successful sale out of bankruptcy of a bauxite mine in Jamaica, an alumina refinery in Louisiana, and an aluminum smelter in Missouri for Noranda Aluminum. Noranda was a highly leveraged company in a volatile and cyclical business when Mike joined. He was hired by the smelter buyer to establish operations and corporate functions. 

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Prior to Noranda, Mr. Griffin was COO and VP of Operations for the $600 million Ormet Corporation, where he developed leadership teams and generated $33.2 million in savings through contract negotiations and manufacturing efficiencies, but was forced to lead the company as CEO through a Chapter 11 process and related site and mineral right sales due to an unsustainable increase in electricity prices (electricity negotiations were handled by others in the company). 

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Early in his career, Mike held Superintendent, Operations Manager, and Plant Manager positions at various plants of Reynolds Metals Company and Alcoa. 

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Mr. Griffin has a Bachelor of Science degree from Clarkson University where he graduated with a major in Electrical Engineering and Power Systems. 

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