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Richard E. Bean
Director
| | Mr. Bean has served as one of our directors and as a member of our Audit Committee and Compensation Committee since June 2004. Mr. Bean is also a member of our Acquisition Committee. Mr. Bean is the Chair of our Audit Committee. Since 1976, Mr. Bean has served as the Executive Vice President and as a director of Pearce Industries, Inc., a privately held company that markets a variety of oilfield equipment and construction machinery. Mr. Bean served as Chief Financial Officer of Pearce Industries from 1976 to 2004. Mr. Bean is currently the chairman of the board and audit committee of First City Financial Corp., and a director and the chairman of the audit committee of Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc., both of which are publicly-held companies. Mr. Bean served as a member of the portfolio administration committee of First City Bancorporation Liquidating Trust from July 1995 until February 2004 when the trust was terminated and distributed its remaining assets. Mr. Bean also served as a director of our former parent, Waste Corporation of America, from its inception in August 1998 through September 2000, and as a director of TransAmerican from February 1997 to May 1998. Mr. Bean is also a stockholder and director of several closely held corporations. Mr. Bean is involved in numerous civic organizations such as the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo where he serves as a director and member of the audit committee. Mr. Bean received an M.B.A. in Accounting and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance with honors from the University of Texas at Austin and has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1968. |
Daniel J. Clark
Director
| | Mr. Clark joined our Board in January, 2010. Since 2000, Mr. Clark has served as a principal of United Nations Insurance Agency, a privately held company that engages in underwriting surety bonds in the waste industry. Mr. Clark has been responsible for the strategic planning and implementation for national surety programs, the fiscal management of a waste industry surety bond portfolio and the development and supervision of national marketing campaigns. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Clark served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Relations for Century Business Services, Inc. From 1983 to 1993, Mr. Clark served as Chief of Staff for United States Congressman Edward F. Feighan. Mr. Clark received a B.A. in Political Science from Kalamazoo College and a J.D. from the Cleveland State University Marshall College of Law. |
Jerome M. Kruszka
President, Chief Operating Officer and Director
| | Mr. Kruszka has served as a director and our president and chief operating officer since our formation in September 2000. Since August 1998, Mr. Kruszka has also served as a director and as the president and chief operating officer of our former parent, Waste Corporation of America, which was spun off as part of an internal reorganization prior to our initial public offering in June 2004. From 1996 to August 1998, Mr. Kruszka served as the president and chief operating officer, and from 1997 to 1998 as a director, of TransAmerican. In 1971, Mr. Kruszka began his career with Waste Management, Inc., the largest publicly-held waste management company in the United States. From 1971 to 1996, Mr. Kruszka held several positions with Waste Management, Inc. and its affiliates, including general manager, district manager and regional manager for northern California, where over 20 divisions involved in collection, transfer, recycling and landfill operations reported to him, and including vice president of operations, western region manager and member of the executive committee of Chemical Waste Management, Inc. (an affiliate of Waste Management). Mr. Kruszka has over 35 years of experience in the solid waste management industry. |
Preston Moore, Jr.
Director
| | Mr. Moore has served as one of our directors since November 2006. Preston Moore is a 1954 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Moore has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Wilson Business Products, Systems & Services, Inc., and later as President of Wilson Industries. Mr. Moore was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to serve as the Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration for the United States Department of Commerce from 1990 through 1992. From 1995 through 1998, Mr. Moore served as a Director of TransAmerican. Mr. Moore currently serves on the Advisory Council of the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, and on the James A. Baker School of Public Policy Leadership Committee at Rice University. |
Roger A. Ramsey
Director
| | Mr. Ramsey has served as one of our directors and as a member of our Audit Committee and Compensation Committee since June 2004. Mr. Ramsey is also a member of our Acquisition Committee. Mr. Ramsey is the Chair of our Compensation Committee. Since December 1999, Mr. Ramsey has served as Chairman of the Board of VeriCenter, Inc., a privately-owned managed hosting services provider. Since October 2004, Mr. Ramsey has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Medserve, Inc., a privately-owned medical waste company. From July 1997 to December 1998, Mr. Ramsey served as the Chairman of the Board (non-executive) of Allied Waste and as a director from January 1999 to December 2002. From 1989 to June 1997, Mr. Ramsey served as the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Allied Waste. Mr. Ramsey is also the former Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and a co-founder, of BFI. Mr. Ramsey received a B.S. in Commerce (cum laude) from Texas Christian University and has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1962. Mr. Ramsey is a member of the Finance and Investment Committees of the Board of Trustees of Texas Christian University and a director and member of the audit and compensation committees of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc., a publicly-held company. |
Antony P. Ressler
Director
| | Mr. Ressler has served as one of our directors since September 2006. In 1997, Mr. Ressler co-founded Ares Management, LLC in 1997, a $16 billion asset management firm with a focus on “alternative assets” (i.e. leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, special situations, mezzanine debt and private equity) managed through a variety of funds and investment vehicles. Mr. Ressler also co-founded Apollo Management, L.P. in 1990; a private investment firm focused on making control oriented equity investments. Prior to 1990, Pr. Ressler served as Senior Vice President in the High Yield Bond Department of Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated, with responsibility in the New Issue/Syndicate Desk. Mr. Ressler serves on several boards of directors including: Kinetics Systems, Marietta Holding Corporation, Samsonite Luggage (chairman of the board), National Bedding Company LLC (Serta) and White Energy. Mr. Ressler is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Early Education, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and is involved in the U.S. Chapter of Right to Play (formerly known as Olympic Aid), an international humanitarian organization that is committed to improving the lives of the most disadvantaged children through sports and play, currently operating in over 20 countries worldwide. Mr. Ressler is also one of the founding members of the board of directors of the Painted Turtle Camp, a southern California-based organization (affiliated with Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Association) which was created to serve children dealing with chronic and life threatening illnesses by creating memorable, old-fashioned camping experiences. Mr. Ressler received his B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and received his M.B.A. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. |
Jeffrey S. Serota
Director
| | Mr. Serota has served as one of our directors since September 2006. Mr. Serota is a member of our Acquisition Committee. Mr. Serota has served as a senior partner in the Private Equity Group of Ares Partners since 1997. Prior to joining Ares Partners in 1997, Mr. Serota was a vice president in the Investment Banking Department of Bear, Stearns & Co. where he specialized in providing investment banking services to financial sponsor clients of the firm. Prior to joining Bear Stearns, Mr. Serota was with Dabney/Resnick, Inc., a boutique investment bank. At Dabney/Resnick, Mr. Serota specialized in merchant banking and capital raising activities for middle market companies and had primary responsibility for the firm’s bridge financing activities. Mr. Serota also worked at Salomon Brothers Inc. focusing on mergers and acquisitions and merchant banking transactions. Mr. Serota serves on the board of directors of Exco Resources, Inc., a publicly-held company, and he serves on the boards of several private companies. Mr. Serota graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and received an M.B.A. from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. |
Honorable John V. Singleton
Director
| | Judge Singleton has served as one of our directors since November 2006. Judge Singleton is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and obtained his license to practice law in the State of Texas in 1942. Lieutenant Singleton served as a Gunnery Officer on the USS Dempsey and the USS Greenwood in the United States Navy from 1942 until 1946. Mr. Singleton practiced law in Houston, Texas until 1966, when President Lyndon Johnson appointed him to serve as a District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. In 1979, Judge Singleton was appointed Chief Judge of the Southern District, and took senior status in 1988. Also, Judge Singleton served as a District Judge Representative to the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1980 through 1983. Judge Singleton retired from the bench in 1992. From 1995 through 1998, Judge Singleton served as a Director of TransAmerican. |
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Charles A. Casalinova
| | Mr. Casalinova has served as our senior vice president and chief financial officer since our formation in September 2000. Since July 1999, Mr. Casalinova has also served as the senior vice president and chief financial officer of our former parent, Waste Corporation of America, which was spun off as part of an internal reorganization prior to our initial public offering in June 2004. From 1981 to July 1999, Mr. Casalinova held several positions at Waste Management, Inc., including division controller, regional chief information officer, acquisition controller, regional vice president/controller for Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma and north Texas, and regional vice president/controller for Illinois and Indiana. Mr. Casalinova received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from the University of Akron and became a Certified Public Accountant in 1989. Mr. Casalinova has over 25 years of experience in the solid waste management industry. |
Tom J. Fatjo, III.
| | Mr. Fatjo, III has served as our senior vice president — finance and secretary since February 2004. Prior to that, Mr. Fatjo, III served as our senior vice president and treasurer since our formation in September 2000. Since September 2000, Mr. Fatjo, III has also served as the senior vice president and treasurer of our former parent, Waste Corporation of America, which was spun off as part of an internal reorganization prior to our initial public offering in June 2004. From August 1998 to September 2000, Mr. Fatjo, III served as vice president, treasurer and director of Waste Corporation of America, Inc. From 1992 to August 1998, Mr. Fatjo, III served as vice president-treasurer of TransAmerican. Mr. Fatjo, III began his career in the solid waste industry with Republic Waste, where he was in charge of investors relations from 1990 through 1991. Mr. Fatjo, III received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Fatjo, III has over 15 years of experience in the solid waste management industry.
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Tom J. Fatjo, Jr.
| | Mr. Fatjo, Jr. has served as our chairman of the Board of Directors and chief executive officer since our formation in September 2000. Since August 1998, Mr. Fatjo, Jr. has also served as the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of our former parent, Waste Corporation of America, LLC, or Waste Corporation of America, which was spun off as part of an internal corporate reorganization prior to our initial public offering in June 2004. From 1992 to August 1998, Mr. Fatjo, Jr. served as the chairman and chief executive officer, and from 1994 to 1996 as the president, of TransAmerican Waste Industries, Inc., or TransAmerican, a publicly-held waste management company that merged into USA Waste Services, Inc. in 1998. In 1990 and 1991, Mr. Fatjo, Jr. was the co-founder and the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Republic Waste Industries, Inc., or Republic Waste, another publicly-held waste management company. Mr. Fatjo, Jr. also founded Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc., or BFI, formerly one of the nation’s largest solid waste management companies and now a part of Allied Waste Industries, Inc., or Allied Waste, another publicly-held waste management company. From 1966 to 1976, Mr. Fatjo, Jr. served as the co-chief executive officer responsible for BFI’s mergers and acquisitions and corporate development activities. Mr. Fatjo, Jr. remained on BFI’s board until 1980. Mr. Fatjo, Jr. received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rice University. Mr. Fatjo, Jr. has over 40 years of experience in the solid waste management industry. Mr. Fatjo, Jr. is the father of Tom J. Fatjo, III, our senior vice president — finance and secretary. |
Jerome M. Kruszka
| | Mr. Kruszka has served as a director and our president and chief operating officer since our formation in September 2000. Since August 1998, Mr. Kruszka has also served as a director and as the president and chief operating officer of our former parent, Waste Corporation of America, which was spun off as part of an internal reorganization prior to our initial public offering in June 2004. From 1996 to August 1998, Mr. Kruszka served as the president and chief operating officer, and from 1997 to 1998 as a director, of TransAmerican. In 1971, Mr. Kruszka began his career with Waste Management, Inc., the largest publicly-held waste management company in the United States. From 1971 to 1996, Mr. Kruszka held several positions with Waste Management, Inc. and its affiliates, including general manager, district manager and regional manager for northern California, where over 20 divisions involved in collection, transfer, recycling and landfill operations reported to him, and including vice president of operations, western region manager and member of the executive committee of Chemical Waste Management, Inc. (an affiliate of Waste Management). Mr. Kruszka has over 35 years of experience in the solid waste management industry. |
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