Master of ceremonies for the 2010 IUP Legacy Gala is Terry Dunlap.
Terry L. Dunlap ’81 has built a successful business career as an executive of a global leader in the specialty metals industry.
Dunlap earned a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from IUP in 1981 and was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity and advertising manager of the Penn. He attended graduate school at Loyola University Chicago, studying in the MBA program. He was honored in 2007 with IUP’s Distinguished Alumni Award.
Dunlap currently serves as group president of ATI Flat-Rolled Products and as business unit president of ATI Allegheny Ludlum, a world leader in the technology, production, and marketing of specialty metals and other alloys in more than thirty countries.
During his tenure, Dunlap has been part of a leadership team that has developed Allegheny Technologies into one of the largest and most diversified specialty metals producers in the world with approximately 8,500 employees and revenues of $3 billion during 2009. ATI has been a member of the Fortune 500 and has also been recognized by Business Week magazine as among the top-performing companies in the United States.
Dunlap began his career in the metals industry as a sales representative for LTV Steel in Chicago; he joined Allegheny Ludlum in 1983. He held numerous positions in sales, marketing, supply chain, and operations at Allegheny Ludlum before he was promoted to vice president of e-business and CIO of parent company ATI in 2000.
In 2001, Dunlap was named vice president of Procurement and chief information officer of ATI before being named president of ATI Allegheny Ludlum in 2002.
Currently, Dunlap serves on the national board of the Metals Service Center Institute. He has served IUP as a member of the Foundation for IUP Board of Directors and of the Business Advisory Council, as a major gifts volunteer and off-campus volunteer for the Gateways to Opportunity capital campaign, and as an admissions recruitment letter signer.
An advisor to IUP’s Eberly College of Business and Information Technology, he was a featured speaker at IUP’s Business Day and a sponsor of the college’s Golf Classic. For the past ten years, Dunlap and his wife, Mary Jo, have funded student tuition awarded through the Terry and Mary Jo Dunlap Endowed Scholarship.
In 1997, Dunlap was honored by IUP’s Eberly College of Business as Business Professional of the Year. Dunlap has supported numerous charities and organizations over the past twenty years including a number of years as a coach for Fox Chapel’s youth baseball, basketball, and soccer programs.
