Trisha Trautman

A new role at Midrex

Trisha Trautman is Chief Human Resources Officer of Midrex Technologies, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Midrex announced in June 2026 that she would be the company's first person in that role, sitting on the Executive Committee and reporting directly to the chief executive. Her company profile says she leads people strategy, including talent, organizational effectiveness and total rewards. Midrex tied the new post to its People-Growth-Technology strategy.^[1][2][4]

Career

Midrex describes more than 20 years of human resources leadership with substantial international experience. Most recently she was Chief People Officer at RQM+, a global medtech contract research organization, where the company says she built and scaled the human resources function to support growth in the United States and Europe, and worked on organizational transformation, acquisitions and integration.^[1][2]

She holds a Master of Arts in Industrial and Labor Relations from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, specializing in Human Resources Management, from Washington & Jefferson College.^[1]

The business she supports

Midrex is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kobe Steel. It designs and supplies direct reduction technology used to make iron, including the MIDREX Process. The company says it has built nearly 100 modules in more than 20 countries, that it accounts for more than half of the world's direct reduced iron production, and that its plants produce about 70 percent of the world's low-CO2 direct reduced iron. These are company-reported figures, and Midrex does not appear to publish separate financial results on the pages read.^[1][3]

On The Executive List

Trisha Trautman is ranked No. 95 on The Executive List (November 2026) in the Chief Human Resources Officers discipline. The ranking is The Executive Review's own editorial judgment (how we rank); it is not an outside award, and placement on the list is never sold. View the November 2026 edition.