A. Maurice Myers became Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Waste Management, on Nov. 10, 1999.  Myers, 62, joined Waste Management from Yellow Corporation, where he had also served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since April 1996.

Waste Management, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, is a FORTUNE 200 company with revenues of $11.5 billion and 55,000 employees.  Myers was hired in 1999 to restructure and resuscitate a company that had suffered from accounting problems and unstable management.  In 2001, the company returned to profitability with a new management team in place and a strategy based on operating excellence in every facet of its operation.

At Yellow Corporation, a FORTUNE 500 truck transportation company, he led a restructuring that returned the company to profitability.  The company earned national recognition for the use of technology in modernizing the company’s operations.

Prior to joining Yellow, Myers was President and Chief Operating Officer of Phoenix-based America West Airlines and led a team credited with the company’s turnaround.  Before joining America West in January 1994, Myers was President and CEO of Honolulu-based Aloha Air Group.  He had been with Aloha since 1983.

Myers began his career with the Ford Motor Company in its financial management-training program.  From Ford, Myers went to Continental Airlines as Senior Director Passenger Market Development.

Myers has a Bachelor’s degree from California State University at Fullerton and a Master of Business Administration degree from Long Beach State University.

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