Christopher Holding — Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at Timken Steel Corporation

Mr. Christopher J. A. Holding serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at TimkenSteel Corporation and served as its Secretary and Treasurer. Mr. Holding serves as a Partner of the Litigation Department at Goodwin Procter LLP (alternate name, Goodwin, Procter & Hoar LLP) and a Member of its Antitrust Practice. He served as the Senior Vice President of Tax and Treasury at Timken Co. since 2010. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on antitrust litigation. Prior to Goodwin Procter, he served as law clerk to then-Chief Justice Ellen A. Peters of the Connecticut Supreme Court. From October 1998 to April 1999, he served as a Special Assistant District Attorney in the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office, where he prosecuted crimes and successfully litigated several jury trials. Mr. Holding serves as a Member of the state bars of Massachusetts and Connecticut and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First and Sixth Circuits and the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He served as a Non-Executive Independent Director at Timken India Limited since June 7, 2013. He serves as a Member of the American and Boston Bar Associations. He was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton University. He completed his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1994 (magna cum laude) and A.B. from Princeton University in 1988 (summa cum laude). Mr. Holding earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Cincinnati and is a certified public accountant.