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From: JOSEPH SCHMIDT (HFTW53A)
07/18/96
KBF APPOINTS NEW CEO AND ADVISORY COMMITTEE APPOINTEES
NORTH LINDENHURST, N.Y., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Lawrence M.
Kreisler President and Chairman of the Board of KBF
Pollution Management Inc., (Nasdaq: KBFP) announced today the
appointment of James A. Aiello, Esq., as acting Chief Executive Officer of
the Company. Mr. Aiello, a member of KBF's Technical Advisory
Committee, has been affiliated with the Company since January, 1996, in a number of capacities, including advising on domestic and international business growth opportunities. Mr. Aiello also serves on the Board of Directors of DGL International Inc., an international
business management corporation headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
With over thirty years of diverse experience as a lawyer, government relations professional, and domestic and international businessman, Mr. Aiello brings a broad suite of management skills
intended to be deployed to take KBF to the next level in its
corporate development. Previously, Mr. Aiello was Vice
President, Latin American Affairs, Ogden Yorkshire Water Company, Vice
President Business Development, Ogden Projects, and Vice
President, Government Affairs, Ogden Martin Systems. Before joining
Ogden, Mr.
Aiello held senior management positions with ABB Asea Brown
Boveri, Inc., and Combustion Engineering Inc.
Mr. Aiello's service in the public sector included stints as Deputy Attorney General, State of California, Assistant
District Attorney, San Mateo County (California), and Chief of Staff,
United States Representative William Royer (R-CA). Married to Dr.
Helene S. Aiello, Director of Guidance, W. T. Woodson High School,
Fairfax, Virginia, they have two grown children, James Anthony Aiello
(Harvard '90) and Matthew Charles Aiello (Yale '93).
"I'm extremely pleased to be coming on board at KBF at
this point in its corporate life," Mr. Aiello stated, "having
proven its unique, patent-pending technology for many years with over
2200 customers in the tri-state area, the Company is poised to
take the next step to provide its valuable resource recovery services
on a selected national and international basis." Mr. Aiello
noted that because the Company's technology removes and recycles metals from liquids rather than chemically fixating them for disposal it
provides an environmentally superior alternative to industries which have previously focused on "end of the pipe" solutions.
Mr. Kreisler also announced the following appointments
to the
KBF Technical Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors.
SETH C. HUNT
Mr. Hunt is the president of Foremost Solutions, Inc.,
of Denver, Colorado. An educator initially, Mr. Hunt commenced
a distinguished federal government career in 1963 with the
United States Civil Service Commission, moving on to the United
States Environmental Protection Agency in 1971, where he helped
establish Region 8 of the then brand-new agency. After a four-year
stint with the United States General Services Administration in the
late 70's Mr. Hunt returned to the United States Environmental
Protection Agency during the Reagan and Bush Administrations, holding
senior positions in Washington, D.C., and Denver, Colorado. Most
significantly, Mr. Hunt was Special Assistant to the
Administrator of the EPA during which time he reorganized the EPA from top
to bottom including all regions and national labs. He also served the valuable position of liaison between Presidential appointees
at the EPA and its career civil service employees.
Mr. Hunt founded Foremost Solutions in 1989, and
continues to serve as its president. The company provides innovative and
cost efficient methods of in situ bio-remediation for use on
contaminated
sites. He also serves on the Board of Directors of
Tanknology Environmental Inc., Houston, Texas. Mr. Hunt's service on
the Board of Tanknology arose from its purchase, from Mr. Hunt, of
USTMAN Industries, an underground storage tank leak detection
company which Mr. Hunt founded in 1990.
THEODORE O. MEIGGS, PH.D.
Doctor Meiggs is Vice President for Research and
Development, Foremost Solutions, Inc. With a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry
from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Chemistry
from San Jose State College, Dr. Meiggs has had a long and
distinguished career in the public and private sectors developing and
demonstrating innovative containment-removal techniques
providing expert testimony in environmental litigation of national
significance planning, conducting and managing environmental investigations of air, water, pesticide, toxics and hazardous waste pollution problems throughout the United States serving on
agencies which developed national and international environmental
measurements and testing protocols and managing commercial
and government laboratories, including the United States
Environmental Protection Agency's Contract Laboratory Program. The latter
program served the EPA's Superfund activities. During this period,
Dr. Meiggs helped develop a number of federal hazardous waste
testing methods.
Of special importance is Dr. Meiggs' nine years of
service as Assistant Director for the National Enforcement
Investigations Center at the EPA, which provided all technical support for
the EPA's Superfund enforcement activities nationwide.
In addition to his duties at Foremost Solutions, Inc.,
Dr. Meiggs is a principal in Meiggs Environmental Consultants
and Profinder, Inc. a firm providing technical and litigation
support for industrial and government clients regarding
environmental regulatory compliance as well as a national network to
locate expert witnesses for litigation support.
In a joint statement, Mr. Hunt and Dr. Meiggs stated,
"We are pleased with the opportunity to work with the KBF Board and
to assist KBF in gaining widespread approval of its innovative
treatment technologies and expanding its markets both
nationally and internationally."
Mr. Kreisler also announced the resignation of Ms. Agnes
A. Gara from the Technical Advisory Committee to the Board of
Directors.
Ms. Gara notified the Company that due to illness, she was
relocating to Florida and could no longer service the needs
of the Committee.
KBF trades on the Nasdaq Bulletin Board ("KBFP"). KBF
Pollution Management, Inc., is located at 1110-A Farmingdale Road,
North Lindenhurst, New York, 11757-1024.
-0- 7/17/96
/CONTACT: Kathi Kreisler of KBF Pollution Management, Inc.,
516-225-0007/
(KBFP)
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