
Brian D'Amico
Executive Chairman, Interstate Waste Services
As executive chairman of Interstate Waste Services (IWS), Brian D'Amico is actively involved in all aspects of the business. He is responsible for ensuring the compliant delivery of services through proper staffing, management oversight, capital allocation and execution of key initiatives and contracts.
Brian has 20 years of experience investing in the solid waste and recycling industry as the founding and managing partner of Summer Street Capital Partners, a Buffalo, New York-based private equity fund. Under his leadership, Summer Street has built several regional solid waste platforms in multiple geographic regions, completing nearly 50 add-on acquisitions across several platform investments in the solid waste and recycling and medical and industrial waste sectors.
He currently serves on the board of directors for IWS, Frontier Waste Solutions and Coastal Waste & Recycling. He has also served on the boards of several other solid waste companies, including Action Environmental Group, Apple Valley Waste Services Inc., Oak Ridge Waste & Recycling Inc. and LRS.
Throughout his career, Brian has advised entrepreneurs and family-owned businesses, invested in small companies and shepherded numerous transactions to a successful close. He is a graduate of Canisius College, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance.