Michael W. Harlan was appointed as our President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2007. Previously, he served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since April 2003. He also served as our Chief Financial Officer from September 1998 until November 2004. He became a Director of the Board in June 2006.
Mr. Harlan has over 20 years of senior management, corporate finance and accounting experience. He began his career in 1982 with an international accounting firm where he held various positions in the tax and corporate financial consulting services division.
From 1991 through December 1996, Mr. Harlan held various positions in the finance and acquisitions department (including Treasurer from September 1993) at Sanifill, Inc., an international environmental services company that USA Waste Services, Inc. acquired in 1996.
From March 1997 until August 1998, Mr. Harlan served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Apple Orthodontix, an orthodontic practice management company.
In August 1998, Mr. Harlan joined with Main Street Equity Ventures II, L.P. (a Houston, Texas based private equity firm of which Vincent D. Foster (our Chairman of the Board, served as Senior Managing Director), Eugene P. Martineau (our Chief Executive Officer and President) and other industry executives to form U.S. Concrete.
Mr. Harlan also serves on the Board of Directors of Waste Connections, Inc., an integrated solid waste services company that provides solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly secondary markets in the Western and Southern U.S. |