Covanta reorganizes company structure

Covanta, a sustainable materials management company based in Morristown, New Jersey, has announced a companywide reorganization to empower regional teams and enhance its focus on current and future customers.  The company will divide its operations into four regions: east, west, midwest and south. 

According to a news release from Covanta, the reorganization will accelerate its growth by enabling customers and community centers to have the company’s best-in-class regional teams at their disposal with technological offerings, including zero waste to landfill, logistics, materials processing, recycling and negative carbon capabilities. This strategy is expected to improve efficiencies and advance decision-making while improving customer and employee outcomes based on local needs. 

“Covanta’s organizational regionalization is an accelerant to our companywide transformation into the market leader in sustainable materials management,” says Covanta President and CEO Azeez Mohammed. “Reorganizing into four regionally empowered divisions will not only position us for success well into the future, but it will also importantly result in enhanced outcomes for customers by offering last-mile sustainability solutions centered on their local needs. ... The new structure will foster further collaboration among our teams and enable us to become nimbler, make decisions faster and tend to our customers with an entirely new level of personalized service to execute their circular sustainability goals.” 

By organizing the business into four regions, Covanta can leverage opportunities and address challenges unique to each region. Covanta’s growth nationwide as the market leader in sustainable materials management will be driven by local leadership:

Adel Omrani, formerly executive vice president of safety, operations and engineering, will become president for the East Region.  

Selma Kivran, formerly president of Covanta Environmental Solutions, will become president for the Midwest Region.  

Amir Hafzalla joins Covanta as president for the South Region. Hafzalla joins Covanta from General Electric, where he spent much of his career in power generation services. His last role was as president and CEO of FieldCore, a business serving customers in the gas, steam and renewable power generation segments of the oil and gas industry based in Atlanta. Before that, he held multiple global profit and loss leadership roles. Hafzalla has a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle and is Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified.  

Nathan Cabbil joins Covanta as president for the West Region. Cabbil brings significant experience from his time at multiple Fortune 500 companies, where he drove growth and business transformation. He held senior-level roles for Republic Services, from where he brings extensive knowledge in materials management. Before Republic Services, Nathan was at Royal Philips Electronics in several operations-focused positions. He holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Wayne State University in Michigan and is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.  

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Lean functional governance operations that cut across regions will remain centered at Covanta's headquarters in Morristown. The headquarters will be focused on supporting the regions in bringing superior personalized experiences to customers. This is the latest in a series of strategic moves over the last year under the ownership of EQT Infrastructure to fulfill Covanta’s transformation that includes key acquisitions, a talent infusion, installing lean business operating systems and creating an empowered regional structure.