Global Principal Partners

About

If you’re looking for a passive investment, don’t call GPP. When we put our capital to work,

we get to work.

GPP is not a typical investment firm that provides capital then passively waits for a return. We have found that by taking active roles in the day-to-day oversight and management of our projects, we are able to enhance the returns for all involved.

We pride ourselves on being industry disruptors. We constantly strive to outperform industry norms in terms of environmental sustainability, employee productivity, and cash flow generation.

We embrace big data mining and data analytics in everything that we do. Combining our embrace of digitalization with innovative employee empowerment and performance-based compensation systems, we have a formula that is a proven winner.

ABOUT

If you’re looking for a typical investment company, GPP is not the team for you. We’re the go-to for game-changers, industry-disrupters, and vision-creators. Sound like you? Then let’s get to work.

Focus on Success

Drivers of our success include:

Identifying investment opportunities that provide a competitive advantage, even in market segments that are not growing.
Purchasing advanced, yet proven technology.
Bringing together like-minded investors and managers.
Overseeing the construction and startup of projects ourselves without relying on turnkey EPC contractors for project execution (we want to hold the keys).
Becoming involved in the day-to-day management as the project transitions from construction to operations.

Focus on the Planet

As some of the earliest voices calling on the metals industry to create sustainable steels, GPP is most interested in metals projects that seek to be true environmental stewards, not just in name only. With a track record of leading the metals industry in terms of reduced carbon emissions, we are not slowing down. Working with our technology partners and like-minded investors, we plan to continue in our leadership position as it regards sustainable steels.

Focus on Our Employees

We also embrace the responsibility that we have to our projects’ employees. We create opportunities, not guarantees, for our projects’ employees to earn life-changing wages. We do this by empowering teams, pushing decision making onto the operating floor, paying weekly production bonuses along with annual profitability bonuses (both without caps), and hiring doers rather than managers.

We take great pride in our projects paying the highest average annual wages in the North American steel industry (and likely the world) while also having the lowest labor cost per ton of steel produced.

Operating with a flat organization structure and fully empowering our employees to make decisions creates tremendous value for all involved, most importantly, for our employees. We avoid bureaucracy like the plague.

And of Course, Focus on Profitability

Rather than dozens of oftentimes conflicting and arbitrary KPIs (key performance indicators), we have two: EBITDA (earnings before interest taxes, depreciation, and amortization) and ROI (return on investment). Our projects operate 24-7, 365 days a year. Our focus is on profitability per time on the mill, not the metals industry’s traditional focus on tons produced.

Using our own variation of profit velocity decision making tools, we have found a formula for outperforming our competition in all market conditions.

While some focus on raising trade barriers and blaming the foreigners, we believe our projects need to stand on their own two feet and be able to take on all comers, whether domestic or overseas.