Chris Young has more than 30 years of leadership experience in supply chain operations, business development and business process transformation. In the last five years, Young led business development efforts for New Day Aluminum, and spearheaded the launching of ElementUS.  Additionally, Young led global sales of Jamaican bauxite in China and to the cement market, as well as managing key logistics suppliers. Previously, in the aluminum industry, Young led sales and operations planning across the integrated supply chain at Noranda Aluminum, as well as business development in the aluminum alloy industry.  Prior to the aluminum industry, Young cofounded a software exchange, led sales and business development for an early-stage distributor in the education market, and had increasing leadership roles within Mead/Meadwestvaco, including leading business operations for a one million ton per year paperboard manufacturer, for a $300 million industrial distributor, and leading an enterprise resource planning software implement for a $1B consumer products business.  Young started his career as an engineering and weapons officer on a guided missile destroyer in the US Navy, making deployments to the Mediterranean, North Atlantic and Persian Gulf.  Young is the chairman of the board of a $300 million mutual fund trust, managed by investment advisor EBS Asset Management. Young earned his undergraduate degree at Duke University and an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.