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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. | 