Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On April 18, 2022, Edwin D. Johnson provided notice of his decision to retire as
President and Chief Operating Officer of Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (the
"Company"), effective June 30, 2022. Mr. Johnson plans to stay on in an advisory
capacity during a transition period.
On April 21, 2022, the Company announced that effective July 1, 2022, Edmond R.
Coletta, age 46, the current Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and
Treasurer of the Company, will become the Company's President and Chief
Financial Officer and will no longer serve as Treasurer, and Sean Steves, age
46, the current Senior Vice President of Operations of the Company, will become
the Company's Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Solid Waste
Operations.
Mr. Coletta has served as the Company's Senior Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer and Treasurer since December 2012. Mr. Coletta joined the Company in
December 2004 and previously served as Director of Finance and Investor
Relations from August 2005 to January 2011 and as Vice President of Finance and
Investor Relations from January 2011 to December 2012. From 2002 until he joined
the Company, Mr. Coletta served as the Chief Financial Officer and was a member
of the Board of Directors of Avedro, Inc., an early-stage medical device company
that he co-founded. From 1997 to 2001, he served as a research and development
engineer for Lockheed Martin Michoud Space Systems. Mr. Coletta holds an MBA
from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a Bachelor of Science
degree from Brown University in Materials Science Engineering.
There are no family relationships between Mr. Coletta and any director,
executive officer or person nominated or chosen by the Company to become a
director or executive officer of the Company. There are no transactions in which
Mr. Coletta has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation
S-K.
Mr. Steves has served as the Company's Senior Vice President of Operations since
April 2019. He joined the Company in April 2018 as Vice President of Operational
Initiatives. From 2016 until April 2018, Mr. Steves was the Director of
Operations Support for Republic Services, Inc., a provider of U.S. environmental
services. Mr. Steves has 25 years of operations experience in the waste industry
and has held roles of increasing responsibility since starting as a transfer
station scale operator, including Operations Supervisor, Operations Manager, and
General Manager. Mr. Steves holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from DePaul
University with a concentration in Sustainable Management.
There are no family relationships between Mr. Steves and any director, executive
officer or person nominated or chosen by the Company to become a director or
executive officer of the Company. There are no transactions in which Mr. Steves
has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
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