Board of Directors
Walter H. Barandiaran is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Argentum Group, a New York-based private equity firm. He has more than 20 years of private equity investment experience, during which time he has led over 30 investments for Argentum's investment funds. His areas of investment expertise include outsourced/business services, technology-enabled services, and clean (environmental) technologies & services.
Walter also serves on the board of Metalico, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: MEA), a regional recycling company of ferrous, non-ferrous and platinum group metals, operating 26 recycling facilities primarily in the Northeast. He is also Chairman of AFS Technologies, Inc., a provider of enterprise software to the food services industry. He also sits on the boards of M3 Technologies, Inc., a supplier of advanced ceramic components to the precision, industrial and defense sectors, and Conner Industries, a distributor and remanufacturer of industrial lumber.
Walter is a trustee of The Baruch College Fund of Baruch College, City University of New York. He received a BBA in International Business from Baruch College (CUNY) and attended the New York University Stern School of Business.
Paul A. Garrett has served as a Director of EQM since December 2006. He chairs the Board’s Audit Committee and serves on the Nominating Committee. Mr. Garrett is also a Director of Metalico, Inc. From 1991 to 1998 he was the chief executive officer of FCR, Inc., an environmental services company involved in the recycling of paper, plastic, aluminum, glass and metals. Upon FCR’s merger in 1998 into KTI, Inc., a solid waste disposal and recycling concern that operated waste-to-energy facilities and manufacturing facilities utilizing recycled materials, he was appointed vice chairman and a member of KTI’s Executive Committee. He held those positions until KTI was acquired by Casella Waste Systems, Inc., in 1999. For a period of ten years before his entry into the recycling industry Mr. Garrett was an audit partner with the former Arthur Andersen & Co.
Jon Colin has served as a Director of EQM since April 2008. Mr. Colin is currently Chief Executive Officer of LifeStar Response Corporation, a position he has held since April 2002. Mr. Colin served as Chief Operating Officer of LifeStar Response Corporation from October 2000 to April 2002, and a consultant for LifeStar Response Corporation from September 1997 to October 2000. From 1990 to 1996, Mr. Colin served as President and Chief Executive Officer for Environmental Services of America, Inc., a publicly traded environmental services company. Mr. Colin is also a Director at LifeStar Response Corporation and Bamnet Inc. Mr. Colin has a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Maryland.
Carlos E. Agüero founded Metalico, Inc. in August of 1997 and has served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer and as a Director since that time. From February 1988 to December 1996, he held the position of President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Continental Waste Industries, Inc., which he founded in February 1988 and helped guide through more than thirty acquisitions and mergers. Continental commenced trading on the NASDAQ National Market in November of 1993 and was acquired by Republic Industries, Inc., in December of 1996.
Jack S. Greber is the Senior Vice President, Business Development. Mr. Greber has over 37 years of experience in the environmental consulting, engineering, remediation and Clean Tech industry. Mr. Greber is one of the founding members of Environmental Quality Management, Inc, which began business in 1990. Mr. Greber also currently serves on the Board of Directors of Conner Industries, Inc., a Fort Worth, Texas firm specializing in Industrial Lumber, Wooden Packaging and Wood Crating. From 1975 to 1990 Mr. Greber was with PEI/International Technology Corporation, a full service environmental and engineering firm, where he was Vice President of Federal Programs. Mr. Greber has a BS and MS in Zoology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.