Elena Petrášková
Vice President and General Counsel
NIPPON STEEL SLOVAKIA s r. o. Elena Petrášková is a Slovak legal executive whose career spans litigation, corporate governance, international law, energy operations and senior leadership at U. S. Steel Košice. Effective 1 October 2026, she serves as vice president and general counsel of NIPPON STEEL KOŠICE s r. o. After graduating from Pavol Jozef Šafárik University’s Faculty of Law, she began at VSŽ as a litigation attorney before taking responsibility for corporate governance. She became general manager of the General Counsel Department at U. S. Steel Košice in 2001 and twice worked at U. S. Steel’s Pittsburgh headquarters, focusing on international law. She earned an LL.M. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2009. She was appointed vice president for subsidiaries and services in 2011, and later assumed responsibility for energy operations and energy procurement in 2016 and leadership of the legal department in 2019. Her position was renamed vice president for energy and general counsel in March 2023, before her appointment at NIPPON STEEL KOŠICE effective 1 October 2026. From 2011 to 2023, she chaired supervisory boards of companies in the U. S. Steel Košice portfolio and held leadership roles in employer, metallurgy, mining, and geology organizations. Her distinctions include the 2013 Award of the Minister of Economy of the Slovak Republic, first place in Hospodárske noviny’s - Business Daily‘s 2017 Top 10 Women of Slovak Business ranking, and second place in the Forbes Top Women 2017 ranking. She has also served as vice president of HC Košice and Košická Aréna and as a member of the Carpathian Foundation’s Board of Trustees. |
