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American
Iron and Steel
Institute
AISI Senior Management
LISA HARRISON is the Senior Vice President of Communications for AISI, where she is responsible for development, planning and execution of both internal and external communications tied to the Institute’s strategic plan and mission. She also serves as a key company spokesperson and is a member of the CEO’s senior management team.
For five years, Harrison served as vice president of communications at the ACC, where she ran the communications and public affairs department and was responsible for a $25 million advertising and advocacy campaign to educate target audiences and stakeholders about the chemical industry and its products. She also served as a presidential appointee at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where she was the Acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, and at the National Park Service where she was the Director of Communications/Special Assistant to the Director for the national park system.
For 19 years, Harrison served as Director of Communications and Deputy Chief of Staff for former Senator (previously Congressman) Bob Smith (R-NH), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Harrison served as chief spokesperson, communications advisor and media strategist.
Before coming to AISI, Harrison was a strategic communications consultant at Hillmer, Inc., where she was responsible for development and implementation of stakeholder outreach programs, online media, policy and program launches, spokesperson training, messaging, media relations, branding, public relations and strategic communications planning for a diverse range of government and commercial clients.
PAUL BALSERAK serves as the Vice President for Environment at AISI, where he directs the Association’s engagement on environmental regulatory development and compliance issues. For four years, he was the deputy director of the regulatory policy division in the Administrator’s Office at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In this role, he provided regulatory status briefings for the Administrator on rules under-development, and assisted senior leadership in strategic thinking on Administrator priorities. He also served as a liaison for EPA with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in their regulatory review role, and assisted in managing division staff in their review of key agency regulatory actions. Prior to that, he served in details at the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and as the Chief of Staff for the Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy at EPA. He worked in many other capacities over his twenty six years at EPA, mainly focusing on climate change, air and water regulations. Prior to working at the EPA, he was an engineer with V. J. Ciccone and Associates, Inc. Balserak has a Master of Science degree in Biology, focused on environmental science and public policy, from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
ELIZABETH VAGO is vice president of membership and administration at the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). She has responsibility for the operations of AISI. She is also responsible for membership, including management of the members-only intranet and onboarding of new members. She manages Human Resources, Information Technology, Facilities Management and Administrative Services. Serving as the Institute’s creative director, Liz is responsible for the organization’s overall brand and led the development of its Identity Standards. She is also the administrator of AISI’s trademark program, including the Steelmark that promotes American-made steel. Vago is responsible for AISI’s annual General Meeting and serves as senior manager to AISI’s board meetings and liaison to AISI’s international sister organization, World Steel Association, for their U.S.-based meetings. Previously she served as senior director in the finance and administration department for two years. Prior to that, she was senior director of communications at AISI and in other communications roles for more than 20 years. Liz came to AISI after serving as director of professional practice at the American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC. She holds a B.S. in Marketing and a B.A. in English from Virginia Tech.
AISI Staff Leadership
DAN SNYDER is responsible for overseeing the Construction Market programs in commercial buildings, codes and standards, and transportation/infrastructure. He became vice president, construction program in May 2023. Prior, he was senior director of business development for AISI.
Dan has been employed by AISI for 25 years and has been involved in strategic and business planning for all of AISI’s construction market programs. He helped to establish the Short Span Steel Bridge Alliance in 2007 and serves as director, growing membership to over 100 organizations and increasing market share for steel bridges under 140 feet. He led the marketing initiative BuildSteel, which successfully raised industry awareness of the benefits of cold-formed steel framing. Dan also led AISI’s strategic planning and program implementation directives for metal roofing, metal wall panels and steel utility poles.
He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University.