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A Director of the Company since March 2004 and a member of the Audit Committee Mr. Stoller has been involved in public and private finance for the last 20 years. Mr. Stoller began his professional career as an attorney. He was partner and co-head of global finance for Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP where he helped build one of the world's largest and most successful practices participating personally in financings totaling more than $4 billion.
At the end of 1992 Mr. Stoller joined Charterhouse Group International a large New York City-based private equity firm as chairman of its Environmental Capital Group. In 1993 Mr. Stoller through the Charterhouse Environmental Group launched American Disposal Services an integrated waste management company that ultimately acquired and consolidated with $34mm in equity capital more than 70 waste management companies located principally in the Midwest. American Disposal had a successful IPO in July 1996 and shortly afterward Mr. Stoller still chairman became a general partner at Charterhouse and actively participated in raising $1 billion for Charterhouse's third private equity fund. American Disposal was sold in 1998 to Allied Waste for a price exceeding $1.3 billion. In August of 1998 Mr. Stoller left Charterhouse to launch Americana Financial Services raising over $25mm in private equity capital. Americana (now the American Wholesale Insurance Group) is currently one of the top five largest private wholesale insurance brokerages in the United States.
In 2002 Mr. Stoller launched TransLoad America LLC which is principally in the business of transloading and transporting waste materials by rail with an initial focus on the northeastern section of the United States. Mr. Stoller holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania; an M.A. from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research; and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. | 