Sean Davidson
CEO, Davis Index
Sean Davidson is the CEO of Davis Index, a price reporting agency covering global ferrous, base metal and secondary markets. Davis Index's team of 65-plus experts based in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Spain, India, Ukraine and Singapore deliver more than 1,300 price indexes from across the world.
At the start of this decade, Davidson reinvigorated scrap coverage across the Metal Bulletin Group as global editor of raw materials at American Metal Market, Metal Bulletin and Steel First, based in New York. During his time at AMM/MB, Sean launched the index for America’s first scrap futures contract: the CME busheling contract.
In 2015, Davidson moved to Houston to build and launch Argus Metal Prices as its global editor, a role he exited in early 2019. Since then, he has focused on building Davis Index into an industry leader for recycled metals and alloys market intelligence. Prior to his roles in commodities, Davidson served different journalistic and entrepreneurial roles in the United Kingdom, Middle East and India. His career has spanned print, online, television, recreation, hospitality and technology. Davidson also is the founder and CEO of Nyteco, a Canadian venture building and investing in startups focused on technology solutions for the recycling industry.