People make the difference
We are honored to have the nation’s largest specialized work force helping our customers find new solutions to natural waste challenges, and we are proud to have some of the country’s most experienced industry experts behind the decisions that make our services consistently unique, reliably safe and always powerful.
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Joseph L. Page
Interim President, Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel
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Joseph L. Page was appointed Interim President and Chief Executive Officer for Synagro in October 2011. He also acts as the organization’s Secretary and General Counsel, a role in which he has served since February 2009. Page brings more than 17 years of experience in domestic and international partnerships, joint ventures and corporate organizations. His expertise lies in corporate governance, compliance, commercial contracting and mergers and acquisition. Page also offers a broad base of experience in domestic and international commercial real estate development and regulatory law, including environmental legislation, permitting and Brownsfield redevelopment.
Page has been instrumental in instituting tight compliance controls, creating systems for improved contract management procedures, and leading a legal team that serves the needs of the Company’s business units. Page was previously the Assistant General Counsel for ION International, Senior Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for Vetco Gray and Vetco International. Page was also Senior Corporate Counsel at Schlumberger Limited, where he served in various positions including Corporate Counsel for the Company’s United Kingdom-based seismic company. He also provided legal counsel for the creation and restructuring of the Company’s $4 billion seismic joint venture which included operations and registrations in more than 60 countries worldwide.
Page graduated from The University of Texas with a Bachelors of Science in Molecular Biology. After several years of research at Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center, Page was also conferred with his Doctorate of Jurisprudence in 1994 from South Texas College of Law.
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Tricia L. Papile
Chief Financial Officer
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Tricia L. Papile joined Synagro as Chief Financial Officer in January 2010. Her breadth of experience and knowledge includes more than 20 years in accounting and finance, primarily in the chemical industry. She has an extensive background in financial analysis, merger and acquisition integration, Six-Sigma productivity and process design and implementation.
Since becoming a member of the Synagro team, Papile is focused on driving business growth by improving operations and maximizing profits by implementing strict finance management tools and creating a framework to increase cost reductions and internal controls.
Prior to joining Synagro, Papile was Chief Financial Officer of Clean Earth, Inc., where she led improvements in the finance area. She previously worked with chemical companies such as Air Products, Cambrex and Celanese, where she was the financial leader for a $500 million specialty chemicals division.
Papile graduated from DeSales University, with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Business Management. She also holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.
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D. Eric Zimmer
Executive Vice President, Services Division
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Eric Zimmer joined Synagro in 2011 charged with delivering new growth in all facets of wastewater capture and conversion services, enhancing the customer service experience, and developing new service programs for industrial customers.
Zimmer has more than 22 years of experience in the environmental services industry with a proven track record in understanding the needs of the customer, improving top-line and operating results, identifying and developing new opportunities in existing and emerging areas, and driving operational execution by creating fast-faced, results-oriented environments.
Prior to joining Synagro, Zimmer served as Executive Vice President and Division General Manager of the branch sales and services division at Safety-Kleen Corporation. During his 14-year tenure at the company, he created and implemented go-to market strategies, led multiple business redesigns, and helped lead the company out of bankruptcy. In each of these initiatives, Zimmer was able to substantially grow the business by improving the products and services to the customers they served.
Additionally, Zimmer held business development, operations and project management roles at companies such as Laidlaw Environmental Services, Smith Technologies, and Westinghouse Corporation. At these organizations, he gained valuable industry experience in a wide variety of environmental services areas such as hazardous waste management, site services and remediation.
Zimmer received his Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from the University of Missouri and his MBA from Southern Methodist University.
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Mark B. McCormick
Executive Vice President
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Mark McCormick joined Synagro in January 2000 through its acquisition of Residuals Technologies, Inc., a startup company that developed regional merchant bio-solids processing facilities using existing municipal thermal processing assets. As head of Synagro’s Facilities Division, McCormick designs, constructs and expands processing capacities to operate as merchant facilities serving more than 100 municipal customers.
Long-term operating contracts entered by the company allowed for the design, construction and expansion of the processing capacities to operate as merchant facilities serving more than 100 municipal customers. These facilities are currently part of Synagro’s Facilities Division, which McCormick is currently responsible for.
Included with his overall Facilities Division profit and loss responsibilities, McCormick leads key initiatives of the company’s strategic plan developed under the leadership of CEO and President William Massa. In addition to heading the Strategic Activities Group, McCormick runs the Mergers & Acquisitions activities of the company. These key company functions help drive the future success of Synagro.
McCormick holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University and has more than 25 years of wastewater residuals and thermal processing experience.
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Pamela K. Racey
Vice President of Business Development
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Racey has been with Synagro for 23 years and currently leads the company’s development group. She is responsible for all new business development efforts including supervision and oversight of a staff of project developers. She forms strategic partnerships with technology, engineering and construction suppliers and oversight and actively participates in contract negotiations.
Racey also leads the company’s efforts in developing facility based public-private infrastructure partnerships. These facilities represent the best technology available today and have afforded many municipalities the opportunity to improve their impact on the environment by lowering emissions, reducing their carbon footprint, and preserving natural resources by producing organic products than can be safely recycled.
Racey and the development team bring decades of expertise to Synagro’s client bases alongside a philosophy of solution-based thinking, approaching each customer individually to understand their project needs and drivers. Her team’s work has resulted in customized solutions that provide maximum benefit for minimum dollars, allowing municipal customers to upgrade their systems at substantial savings when compared with traditional delivery methods. Under her direction the development department has delivered more than a dozen state-of-the-art f acilities across the nation producing backlog revenue of more than one billion dollars.
Racey also regularly interfaces with local community groups and elected officials to answer community questions and seek input and feedback from the project stakeholders. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Pennsylvania State University.
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Chibby Alloway
Vice President of Engineering and Technology
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Chibby Alloway joined Synagro as Vice President of Engineering and Technology in May of 2010. Alloway has more than 30 years of business development, design, build and operational experience in the water and wastewater utility industry. Alloway has a varied employment career providing him with a comprehensive prospective of water and wastewater technology. His technical expertise includes applied water and wastewater research and development, residual management, biological nutrient removal, process and consumable optimization programs, capital improvement plan development and execution, process engineering and modeling, and facility asset management programs.
Prior to joining Synagro, Alloway worked for Veolia Water North America, where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer (CTO). There, he created and managed a 35-plus person technical engineering group which provided a key strategy growth platform for developing and maturing new product lines.
Upon joining Synagro he worked with his staff in developing new processes and procedures to support the rapidly expanding sales and development pipeline. Additionally his team is working to expand the substantial business and technical opportunities in new methods of residual managements, advance digestion, bio-gas utilization, and bio-solids stabilization.
Alloway has worked for federal and local agencies, private engineering companies, and specialty equipment companies during his tenure in the water and wastewater industry. Chibby holds a Grade V wastewater certification as awarded by the State of California and holds a Master of Environmental Engineering from Stanford University.
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Brian Kendall
Vice President of Environment, Health, Safety & Transportation & Product Marketing
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Kendall has more than 20 years of experience in the composites, building materials and pulp and paper industries. His expertise lies in safely leading global business operations, and he has a proven history of leading change and modeling strategic growth. Kendall has a successful background of integrating health and safety into all aspects of optimizing and has managed and led operations in 29 countries at both the plant and corporate levels.
Kendall’s extensive safety background ranges from small to large operations. He has provided consulting for Fortune 500 Companies and led environmental, health and safety initiatives for companies with 25,000 employees. Kendall also directed manufacturing operations for a $600 million business with 24 plants. Following the acquisition of his previous company’s largest competitor, he was responsible for optimizing the supply chain for a $1.6 billion composites business with 36 manufacturing plants and 22 warehouses in 17 countries and 10,000 employees world-wide.
Kendall has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Loyola University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Carolina. He is a former member of the Pulp and Paper Safety Association Board and chairperson for the American Forest & Paper Association’s Health and Safety Subcommittee. Kendall is passionate about leading a values-based cultural transformation and lives his purpose of creating an injury- and illness-free workplace.
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Raymond M. Sittig
Vice President of EPIC Division
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Ray Sittig has been a member of the Synagro team since 2010. As Vice President of EPIC, he is responsible for the sales and operations of the Company’s rail transportation division.
Sittig brings 25 years of business experience—the past 19 years occurring within the environmental services industry—with a primary focus on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Before joining Synagro, Sittig served as a member of the leadership team at Clean Earth, a Mid-Atlantic recycling firm that treats and reuses contaminated soils and dredge materials.
In addition, Sittig managed acquisitions of a seven-state region and within a $1.5 billion market for Allied Waste Industries, Inc. Previously, he led the Chambers Development Company, Inc. national divestiture program, resulting in a merger of the business with USA Waste Services. Post-merger, he transitioned to an acquisition role as part of a national growth strategy that increased annual revenue from $300 million to $2 billion.
Sittig graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Douglas T. Barbe
Vice President of Facilities Division
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Douglas T. Barbe joined Synagro in June 2010 to oversee execution and operations of all of Synagro’s U.S. biosolids facilities. In his role as Vice President, he is responsible for the operational excellence, compliance and customer satisfaction of the Facilities Division.
With more than 20 years of experience working with global organizations, Barbe offers a distinct perspective on managing business operations. Prior to joining Synagro, Barbe served as Executive Vice President of Operations at Atlanta-based Tensar Corporation, where he was responsible for manufacturing execution of a $250 million annual global ground solutions business, including four sites in three countries (U.S., U.K., China). While with the organization, he implemented centers of excellence across all sites in key areas in order to promote best practice sharing and drive significant improvement across the business in manufacturing. Additionally, he implemented an EHS action plan across all sites to significantly improve safety performance.
Adding to his international experience, Barbe served in several global roles for Celanese Corporation, including Global Emulsions Operations Director, which included overseeing manufacturing execution of an $850 million annual business in nine countries. Additionally, he held multiple management positions at GE Plastics, where he was a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt.
Barbe received Bachelors and Masters of Science degrees in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University.