Speakers

Mark A. Pytosh serves as Chief Executive Officer, President and a Director of the general partner of CVR Partners, LP. He also serves as chairman of the Board of Directors’ environmental, health and safety committee. Prior to joining CVR Partners, Mr. Pytosh served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Alberta, Canada-based Tervita Corporation, an environmental and energy services company. From 2006 to 2010, he 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, Mr. Pytosh served as Executive Vice President from 2004 to 2006, and Chief Financial Officer from 2005 and 2006, for Waste Services, Inc., an integrated solid waste services company that operates in the United States and Canada. Prior to his corporate career, Mr. Pytosh spent 18 years in the investment banking industry, working with a broad range of clients in a variety of industrial sectors. From 2000 to 2004, he 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 a Managing Director at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where he led the firm’s environmental services and automotive industry groups. He started his career in equity research at Kidder, Peabody. Mr. Pytosh received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the University of Illinois Foundation and The Fertilizer Institute.