Mr. Dovigi is the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of GFL. In 2007, Mr. Dovigi had a vision to create a company that is a “one stop shop” provider of environmental solutions. Since then, drawing on the discipline he learned in his earlier hockey career, Mr. Dovigi has driven GFL to become the 4th largest environmental services company in North America. Mr. Dovigi has instilled an entrepreneurial culture in GFL’s leadership team with a focus on operational excellence, sustainability and safety as core values. In 2017, he was recognized by Waste360 with a Top 40 under 40 award, and in the EY Entrepreneur of the YearTM Ontario Awards, as Entrepreneur of the Year in the Power & Utilities Sector. In 2022, he was recognized by Waterstone Human Capital as one of Canada's Most Admired CEOsTM. Mr. Dovigi currently serves on the board of directors of the UHN Foundation.
Luke Pelosi, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Pelosi has been our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since October 2018. Mr. Pelosi joined GFL as Director, Mergers & Acquisitions in January 2015 and became Executive Vice President, Corporate Development in October 2016. Mr. Pelosi was also appointed interim Chief Financial Officer in January 2017. Mr. Pelosi held the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer until October 10, 2018, during which time Mr. Pelosi worked with Mr. Dovigi on the development and execution of our acquisition strategy. Mr. Pelosi has over 20 years of financial management experience with a focus on financial analysis, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate finance. Prior to joining GFL, Mr. Pelosi was a Director in the M&A Advisory group of KPMG LLP where he provided due diligence services to Canadian private equity market investors. Prior to that, Mr. Pelosi worked in KPMG’s Complex Accounting group. Mr. Pelosi is a Chartered Professional Accountant and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Concordia University.
Greg Yorston, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Solid Waste
Greg was appointed GFL’s Chief Operating Officer, Solid Waste, in November 2018. With an extensive leadership and operations background, he brings almost three decades of experience working in the waste industry.
From 2013 to 2018, Greg was Senior Vice President of Operations of Waste Industries and assumed the roles of Chief Operating Officer on January 1, 2014 and President in early 2015. Greg has over 30 years of experience working directly within the waste industry. Greg worked for 26 years with Waste Management, where he was the Corporate Vice President for Operations and Business Solutions prior to joining Waste Industries. During his tenure at Waste Management, he held various management positions, including 12 years as an Area Vice President with responsibility for collection, recycling and landfill disposal services in the Southeastern United States.
Prior to joining GFL as Executive Vice-President and General Counsel in October 2018, Mindy served as a lawyer and partner at Davies Ward Philips and Vineberg LLP for over 16 years. Her practice focused on corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets. She brings a wealth of legal and business experience, advising clients in areas such as domestic and international public and private offerings of debt and equity, loan financings, and private equity-related transactions. As Executive Vice-President and General Counsel, Mindy is responsible for overseeing all legal matters impacting GFL, including corporate governance, financings, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation. Named as one of the 2013 Lexpert® Rising Stars Leading Lawyers Under 40, Mindy is a former member of the Toronto Stock Exchange Listings Advisory Committee and the Ontario Securities Commission Securities Advisory Committee. She currently serves on the Alumni Board of Osgoode Hall Law School. Mindy holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School.
Joy has been our Executive Vice President, Strategic Initiatives since October 2018. She joined GFL as Vice President, Legal in March of 2011, became General Counsel in May 2014 and Executive Vice President in April 2017. She has an LL.B from the University of Toronto and has practiced law since her call to the bar in 1983, initially in private practice with a small boutique firm in Hamilton, Ontario and since 1997 primarily as in-house counsel for publicly traded and private companies in the waste management sector including as General Counsel of Capital Environmental Resource Inc. from 1998 to 1999 and as Associate General Counsel at Waste Services Inc. (WSI), the successor to Capital Environmental from 2003 until 2010, where she was responsible for all commercial and legal compliance matters affecting the company’s waste management operations including acquisitions and divestitures, contract and employment matters and worked with WSI’s General Counsel on financings and securities matters. In November 2016, Joy was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women of 2016.
Mr. Glavina is our Chief Operating Officer, Environmental Services. He joined GFL in April 2016 as the Executive Vice President, Strategic Planning. In August 2018, he became Area Vice President, Liquid Waste Canada and in January 2024, he became Chief Operating Officer, Environmental Services. He has worked in the hazardous waste industry for over 10 years, including at Safety Kleen (Clean Harbors) and Metaflo Technologies, where he had national oversight of a number of functions, including hazardous waste, operations, sales, environmental health & safety, human resources and finance. Prior to the waste industry, Mr. Glavina worked for Cintas, which further enhanced his experience in route based service businesses. He holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.