Becky is a global steel industry professional who has served as an equity analyst, project finance and mergers and acquisitions investment banker, cost modeling expert, industry trend macro and micro consultant, expert witness and C-level strategic planning consultant. Included in her credits are being on the Institutional Investor (II) All-American Research Team for Metals in 2001 and four consecutive years of recognition by the Wall Street Journal for earnings accuracy in 1993 to 1996. She’s a proven leader with deep financial, operation, trade and market relationships with steel producers, traders, processors and users.

In 2012, she formed Steel-Insights, LLC, a strategic consulting firm focused on the steel, metals and manufacturing industries, which was profitable in its first full year of independent operation, generating a six-figure top line with a 40% gross margin and has generated over $1.7 million of revenue since inception adding new clients in every year since forming the firm. She produces reports on the strength of the US and global economies, the global steel cycle, USA mill profitability and utilization, and specific product market micro analysis. She formed The Core Coalition in 2020 to protect imports of intermediary transformer products into the USA from tariffs and formed Steel-Insights Index and EV Real in 2022 in support of the electrical steel industry.

Prior to Steel-Insights, Becky was a Managing Partner of World Steel Dynamics Inc., the world’s leading steel information firm run by Peter F. Marcus, where she worked for almost a decade tracking and forecasting trends in the global steel industry.  While at WSD, Miss Hites prepared expert testimony for the EZZ Steel litigation, a leading USA steelmaker matter and testified before the arbitration tribunal in Singapore on the undercapitalization of a steel mill start-up in the Philippines. 

During her career, Becky has been involved in capital markets equity transactions for a large number of steel and other basic industry companies. She has also been involved in numerous other IPO’s, follow-on equity offerings and M&A advisory assignments. She has worked around the world with steel companies and vendors on business plan development, early-stage project finance management and steel mill modernization capital formation.  She has traveled globally doing presentations as an industrial economist and steel industry specialist.  Her Wall Street experience includes stints at Robinson-Humphrey (10 years), Kurt Salmon Associates, Bankers Trust Alex. Brown (now Deutsche Bank), M. Hecht & Associates, Inc., CitiBank/Salomon Smith Barney and Miller Mathis & Co., LLC.

In 2020, Becky ran for Congress in GA-13, the nation’s most gerrymandered district against an 8-term incumbent comprised of the western and southern suburbs of Atlanta, GA. She won 69% of the primary vote and 89% of the precincts across 6 counties in COVID lockdown and secured 22.6% of the general vote; increased voter turnout 17%; won her precinct by 54%.  In 2022, she registered to run in the FL-9 before withdrawing for family medical reasons and moving to Texas.  In 2024, she served as the treasurer of the Hays County Republican Women and ran the club’s state PAC, attended the Republican Party of Texas convention as a delegate, attended the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and served as precinct chair for the Hays County Republican Party. 

Becky earned an economic degree from the State University of West Georgia and an MBA from Georgia State University. She has been an Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) member since 1996, served on the Board from 2021-2023, served on the Southeast Member Chapter committee from 2012-2023 (until moving to Texas), served on the AISTech Conference Planning Committee from 2012-2015; 2019 and belongs to two technology committees (Electric Steelmaking and Plate Rolling). She served as CFO and a board member of the Atlanta Council on International Relations (ACIR-a geopolitical association) from 2018-2020.  Becky has been an Association of Women in the Metal Industries (AWMI) member since 1994 and served on multiple chapter boards (Atlanta, New York & Carolinas) and as southern regional director and on the board from 2017-2019.  She has been a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts (NYSSA), the CFA Institute, the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) where she served as a webinar guest speaker, the New York Association for Business Economics, the Atlanta Economics Club and the CFA Society Atlanta. She’s been recognized in Who’s Who in Finance and Business, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.

Becky can trace her lineage back to the Colonies and is a Daughter of the American Revolution (DAR), a Daughter of the War of 1812, a Daughter of the Veterans of the Union and a National Daughter of the Union 1861-1865. One of her ancestors billeted George Washington’s Continental Army in the winter of 1777-1778 and she had an ancestor held prisoner on a ship in the NY harbor. More recently, her paternal grandfather fought in the South Pacific in WWII, her maternal grandfather served in the Navy in WWII and her maternal grandmother was a Rosie the Riveter. Her maternal great grandparents billeted WWII troops on the East Coast of Florida. Her dad served in the US Army for over 20 years and her brother is a Green Beret and Colonel in the Texas Army Reserve.

She’s a Baptist who has served as a Sunday School teacher, choir soprano and participated in mission trips to Brazil and South Africa. Becky’s a collector of antiques, an amateur photographer and an advocate for the steel and manufacturing industries.