Senior Vice President, Government Affairs and Corporate Communications
Waste Management, Inc.

Barry H. Caldwell is responsible for leading Waste Management's government affairs, corporate communications, and community relations and public sector services activities. Waste Management, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, is a FORTUNE 200 company with revenues of approximately $13 billion and 50,000 employees.

Barry joined Waste Management from CIGNA Corporation, the Philadelphia-based health insurance and retirement products provider, where he was Vice President, Government Relations. Before CIGNA, he was Vice President, Federal Affairs for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.

Before that position, he worked for United States Senator Arlen Specter, first as counsel to the senator and later as his Chief of Staff. Caldwell began his career as an attorney with Kutak Rock & Campbell and then Cole Corette & Abrutyn, both Washington, D.C. law firms.

Barry serves on the boards of Keep America Beautiful, the nation's leading community improvement network, and the Environmental Industries Association, the trade association for the private waste services industry.

Barry holds a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., and a juris doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.