SUGAR LAND, Texas, April 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- CVR Partners, LP
(NYSE: UAN), a manufacturer of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate
(UAN) solution fertilizer products, today announced that
Mark A. Pytosh has been named
president and chief executive officer of the partnership's general
partner, CVR GP, LLC, effective May 5,
2014. He will be based at the partnership's headquarters in
Sugar Land.
Pytosh was appointed as a director of CVR GP in June 2011. He will continue to serve as a
director and the chairman of the environmental, health and safety
committee.
"In addition to Mark's proven leadership as a member of the
partnership's Board of Directors, his extensive finance experience
and familiarity with our business will serve the partnership well,"
said Jack Lipinski, executive
chairman of CVR GP and chief executive officer and president of CVR
Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CVI), which owns the general partner and
approximately 53 percent of the common units of CVR Partners.
Pytosh most recently served as executive vice president and
chief financial officer for Tervita Corporation, based in
Alberta, Canada. Formerly known as
CCS Corporation, Tervita is a leading North American environmental
and energy services company.
From 2006 to 2010, Pytosh served as senior vice president and
chief financial officer for Covanta Energy Corporation, which owns
and operates energy-from-waste power facilities, biomass power
facilities and independent power plants in the United States, Europe and Asia. Prior to Covanta, he served as executive
vice president from 2004 to 2006, and chief financial officer from
2005 to 2006, for Waste Services, Inc., an integrated solid waste
services company.
Prior to joining the renewable energy and waste industries,
Pytosh spent 18 years in the investment banking industry working
with a broad range of clients in the environmental services,
automotive, construction equipment and a variety of other
industrial sectors. From 2000 to 2004, Pytosh was a managing
director in investment banking at Lehman Brothers where he led the
firm's global industrial group. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers,
he was managing director at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where
he led the firm's environmental services and automotive industry
groups.
Pytosh holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the
University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. He currently serves on the Board of
Directors for the University of
Illinois Foundation.
About CVR Partners, LP
Headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, with manufacturing
facilities located in Coffeyville,
Kan., CVR Partners, LP is a Delaware limited partnership focused primarily
on the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizers. The CVR Partners
nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing facility is the only operation in
North America that uses a
petroleum coke gasification process to produce nitrogen fertilizer
and includes a 1,225 ton-per-day ammonia unit, a 3,000 ton-per-day
urea ammonium nitrate unit, and a dual-train gasifier complex
having a capacity of 84 million standard cubic feet per day of
hydrogen.
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