The Early Days of Scaling GFL Environmental

Former VP at GFL Environmental

Why is this interview interesting?

  • Insight into working with Dovigi from $40m to $400m
  • Why revenue per truck per day is the best internal KPI
  • Dovigi is great with people and recruited the best in the industry to join GFL
  • Patrick was unique by moving into soil remediation and infrastructure
  • Why the infra spin-out could become a mini-GFL

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Fernando Pellegrino

Former VP at GFL Environmental

Fernando has over 30 years experience in the waste industry and was the right-hand man for Patrick Dovigi in the early days of building GFL. Fernando ran operations for GFL and helped Patrick scale the company from $40m to over $400m by rolling up mom-and-pop waste companies. Prior to GFL, he ran Ontario for Waste Management.Read more

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The Early Days of Scaling GFL Environmental(February 23, 2022)

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