TORONTO, Aug. 2, 2019 /CNW/ -- Waste Connections,
Inc. (TSX/NYSE: WCN) ("Waste Connections" or the "Company") today
announced that Elise L. Jordan has
been appointed to its Board of Directors.
"Elise is a seasoned finance professional with a wealth of
experience in transportation, logistics and customer connectivity
through her long tenure with FedEx Express. She will be a great
addition to our Board," said Ronald J.
Mittelstaedt, Executive Chairman.
Ms. Jordan, 59, is Executive Vice President and CFO of FedEx
Express, the largest transportation company in the FedEx Corp.
(NYSE: FDX) enterprise with $38
billion in annual revenues and over 235,000 team members
worldwide. In that capacity, she is responsible for worldwide
financial affairs, including financial planning, reporting and
analysis, long-range strategic planning, and regional accounting
and controls. Prior to her current position, Ms. Jordan
served as Senior Vice President, Strategic and Financial Planning
and Analysis and Business Systems; Vice President, FedEx Express
Financial Planning; Managing Director, Global Financial Planning;
and Manager, Corporate/Domestic Business Planning. She joined FedEx
in 1983 as an Operations Analyst. Before joining FedEx, Ms. Jordan
served as a Staff Auditor for Arthur Andersen LLC. Ms. Jordan
earned her MBA from the University of
Memphis and her BBA in Accounting from the University of Texas in Austin.
About Waste Connections
Waste Connections is an integrated solid waste services company
that provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, disposal
and recycling services in mostly exclusive and secondary markets in
the United States and
Canada. Through its R360 Environmental Solutions subsidiary,
Waste Connections is also a leading provider of non-hazardous
oilfield waste treatment, recovery and disposal services in several
of the most active natural resource producing areas in the United States, including the Permian,
Bakken and Eagle Ford Basins. Waste Connections serves more
than seven million residential, commercial, industrial, and
exploration and production customers in 42 states in the U.S., and
six provinces in Canada. The Company also provides intermodal
services for the movement of cargo and solid waste containers in
the Pacific Northwest.
For more information, visit the Waste Connections web site at
www.wasteconnections.com. Copies of financial literature,
including this release, are available on the Waste Connections
website or through contacting us directly at (905) 532-7510.
Investors can also obtain these materials and other documents filed
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the
Canadian securities regulators free of charge at the SEC's website,
www.sec.gov, and at the System for Electronic Document Analysis and
Retrieval (SEDAR) maintained by the Canadian Securities
Administrators at www.sedar.com.
CONTACT:
Mary Anne Whitney / (832)
442-2253
maryannew@wasteconnections.com
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