Tom Stundza
Senior Analyst
Pricing and Purchasing Group

Tom Stundza is executive editor of Purchasing Magazine, a monthly newsmagazine published in Waltham, Mass. Currently, Stundza is Purchasing Magazine's chief industrial commodities analyst, and coordinates coverage of supply, demand, delivery leadtimes, and prices of such industrial commodity materials as metals, energy, chemicals and plastics, pulp and paper goods, and wood products.

He writes the weekly Price+Supply Alert online newsletter and co-authors Purchasing’s Mid-Day Business Report, an audio news summary, both at www.purchasing.com; authors the Steel Flash Report, a monthly online update on the steel market, the Chemical Flash Report, a bimonthly report on the petrochemicals market and the Energy Flash Report, a quarterly monograph, all published for subscribers on www.purchasingdata.com. He writes and narrates MetalsWatch! and others in a regularly produced series of business audiotapes.

Stundza has been a journalist since 1968 and with Purchasing since 1983. Previously, he wrote for American Metal Market, the daily metals industry newspaper; The Post-Tribune, a daily newspaper in Gary, Ind., and The Eagle-Tribune daily newspaper in Lawrence, Mass. He also has been a lecturer in journalism at ValparaisoUniversity and the University of Pittsburgh. He has been the recipient of numerous newswriting awards and is listed in various media resource books, as well as Who’s Who in America and Who's Who in American Journalism. The Association of Steel Distributors named him the Honorary Steel Man of the Year for 2001, the first time in the award's more than three-decade history that someone other than a steel mill or steel distribution executive has been so honored.

Stundza has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Education from MerrimackCollege in North Andover, Mass. and a Master of Arts degree in Urban Sociology from ValparaisoUniversity in Valparaiso, Ind. He is a member of the Cottage Park Yacht Club in Winthrop, Mass.; the Lithuania-American Citizens Association of South Boston, Mass.; the Lawrence, Mass.-based Council 78 of the Knights of Lithuania, and a third degree member of Council 67, Knights of Columbus, Lawrence, Mass.