GBB adds new special principal associate of financial advisory services

Gershman, Brickner & Bratton Inc. (GBB), McLean, Virginia, has announced that Seth Myones has joined the firm as special principal associate—financial advisory services. He has more than 30 years of experience in the waste and environmental services, industrial services and waste-to-energy/renewable energy spaces with in-depth strategic, commercial, operational and technical expertise, GBB says

Myones is a senior executive with extensive execution experience and skill in establishing and heading world-class business and operations, both domestically and globally, and expertise in project and debt financing and restructuring. He also has a strong history in profit and loss (P&L) leadership roles and in significantly growing enterprise value by improving revenues and operating margins through greenfield, organic growth and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) business development activities, as well as tightly managing operating costs including instituting process and continuous improvement initiatives and organizational restructurings. 

"I'm excited to join forces with GBB and create synergies with the current multidisciplined team through my experience and background in the private sector," says Myones. 

"GBB's connection to Seth started when we first met in the town of Babylon, New York, where he was the first business manager for the resource recovery facility that GBB helped implement. He brings to GBB his impressive track record as an industry leader, his industry knowledge and leadership abilities," says GBB President Harvey Gershman. "We look forward to Seth providing greater financial and business acumen depth to our team providing visioning, strategy development, execution and operations consulting services." 

Myones recently served as an operating advisor at Pegasus Capital Advisors, a private equity firm headquartered in Cos Cob, Connecticut, on its recycling and environmental services portfolio companies and related industry opportunities. He was previously employed by Covanta Energy Corp., Morristown, New Jersey, for more than 25 years in P&L leadership roles and was a member of the senior executive team for more than 15 years, with roles as chief operating officer, president  of Covanta Americas and senior vice president of business. His executive-level responsibilities included overseeing and leading all commercial aspects of the environmental services, merchant waste, power sales and scrap metal revenue segments as well as global P&L and operations, market strategy and execution, business development, M&A, engineering, construction, research and development, supply chain and logistics, government affairs, asset management and customer relations. 

Myones received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in finance from New York University, New York City, and a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has a CPA license from the state of Maryland and is currently adjunct professor at the William Paterson University of New Jersey, International Business.