Thomas A. Volini

Thomas A. Volini

Links www.italofrederickvolini.com www.camilloeugenevolini.com www.midwestern-electric.com profiles.google.com Press 1.01.2009 1.01.2008 11.03.2001 1.10.1997 5.26.1996	Thomas A. Volini is married to Dr. Loretta F. Volini, Ed.D, and resides in Oak Brook, Illinois. The Volini family includes twelve grown children engaged in law, health care, social service, education, insurance, real estate, construction and manufacturing in Illinois and Indiana. Mr. Volini and Dr. Volini have seven grandchildren. Mr. Volini has been engaged in construction and environmental services businesses for over forty years. He has been employed in government service, real estate development, and the formation and operation of several firms engaged in the regulated utilities industry and others managing solid waste in 13 US states and Latin America. Governmental Service Prior to entering the housing field, at the beginning of his career, Mr. Volini held various high-level planning positions with two City departments and in the Administrative Office of the Mayor of the City of Chicago. He maintained a small planning consulting practice and very briefly was engaged in the private practice of Law. Housing and Manufacturing Introduced to community redevelopment in his work for Chicago's Deputy Mayor and various department heads, Mr. Volini focused full-time efforts on constructing multi-family housing in Illinois, Minnesota, and Virginia. His non-profit housing activities, both as a HUD approved consultant and as a principal, include several hundred million dollars in multi-family rental and sales housing, including developments in Chicago's Chinatown as described in the book Non-profits With Hard Hats. His sales housing ventures, dating back to 1974, have produced awards for design and construction quality. Mr. Volini discontinued his efforts in housing production on his own behalf as a result of the mortgage crisis and housing slump in 1980. He entered a career in environmental services supplemented by industrial and other development projects. One such project involved the development of a major manufacturing business in Illinois. As president of the firm, he developed Marseilles Brick Company, an Illinois corporation producing over 60 million heat-fused clay brick annually. The new factory employed the most modern brickmaking technology in North America and was sold to an investor. It is now owned by a world leader in building products manufacturing. Mr. Volini continues certain pro bono housing development activities with projects located in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, in which he shared development responsibilities, and assisting in the construction of new permanent housing in self-help projects in Haiti following the devastating earthquake in 2010 . Environmental Services Entering the environmental field, Mr. Volini served as vice president of numerous Midwestern subsidiaries, with Waste Management of North America, in the early 1980s. Later, he served as president of E & E Hauling, Inc. and American Environmental Construction Company in Illinois. Leaving these firms following their sale to Browning Ferris Industries, Inc., Mr. Volini served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Operating Officer of Continental Waste Industries, Inc. ("CWI"), a public solid waste and environmental services firm, listed on the Nasdaq Exchange, until 1997 when the company merged with Republic Industries, Inc. Mr. Volini served as a Director of other affiliates of CWI, including acquired publicly-traded, reporting companies. As an officer, director and significant shareholder, Mr. Volini was responsible for operations for CWI through a period of growth and transformation into a multi-state publicly held solid waste company, serving the Midwestern and Southeastern United States as well as Mexico and Costa Rica. Leaving CWI following the Republic Industries merger, Mr. Volini served on the Board of Directors of American Ecology, a Nasdaq listed firm engaged in the management of hazardous and low-level nuclear waste. Construction and Utilities Honoring a five-year non-compete negotiated as part of the sale of Continental Waste Industries, Mr. Volini acquired several regulated sewer and water utilities and a company providing services to other utilities in Illinois and Indiana. He also acquired Midwestern Electric, Inc. in Indiana, which is operated today as the remaining subsidiary of Town & Country Utilities, Inc. Midwestern Electric, Inc. provides electrical construction and maintenance through Indiana, maintaining offices and yards in Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne and East Chicago. Other Current Responsibilities While maintaining the corporate positions of president of Town & Country Utilities, Inc. and Vice-president of Midwestern Electric, Inc., Mr. Volini divides his time assisting in the management of other family business interests including Heartland Recycling, LLC and DisposAll Waste Services, LLC. These firms provide solid waste collection and recycling services to large and small municipalities in Northeastern Illinois as well as major industrial concerns and commercial customers. As development consultant and partner, Mr. Volini recently completed a major mixed use, commercial and multi-family residential project in Lombard, Illinois. Mr. Volini and Dr. Volini are also active in charitable endeavors, where Mr. Volini volunteers in finance and facilities management and Dr. Volini volunteers in educational settings while maintaining a limited clinical practice. Their charitable involvement includes Rainbows for All God's Children a grief counseling program; St. John Berchmans School and the renovation of its historic campus in Chicago, Catholic Charities of Chicago, the primary focus of their volunteer efforts. The Fuller Center for Housing, and the reconstruction efforts of Grace International, Inc. in Haiti receive additional support from Mr. Volini. Mr. Volini received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Law degree from Loyola University of Chicago, while Dr. Volini received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois in Urbana, Masters degrees and Certificates of Advanced Studies from Northeastern Illinois university and the University of Illinois, respectively, and a Doctorate in Education from National-Louis University in Evanston, Illinois.

Thomas A. Volini is married to Dr. Loretta F. Volini, Ed.D, and resides in Oak Brook, Illinois. The Volini family includes twelve grown children engaged in law, health care, social service, education, insurance, real estate, construction and manufacturing in Illinois and Indiana. Mr. Volini and Dr. Volini have seven grandchildren.

Mr. Volini has been engaged in construction and environmental services businesses for over forty years. He has been employed in government service, real estate development, and the formation and operation of several firms engaged in the regulated utilities industry and others managing solid waste in 13 US states and Latin America.

Governmental Service

Prior to entering the housing field, at the beginning of his career, Mr. Volini held various high-level planning positions with two City departments and in the Administrative Office of the Mayor of the City of Chicago. He maintained a small planning consulting practice and very briefly was engaged in the private practice of Law.

Housing and Manufacturing

Introduced to community redevelopment in his work for Chicago's Deputy Mayor and various department heads, Mr. Volini focused full-time efforts on constructing multi-family housing in Illinois, Minnesota, and Virginia. His non-profit housing activities, both as a HUD approved consultant and as a principal, include several hundred million dollars in multi-family rental and sales housing, including developments in Chicago's Chinatown as described in the book Non-profits With Hard Hats. His sales housing ventures, dating back to 1974, have produced awards for design and construction quality. Mr. Volini discontinued his efforts in housing production on his own behalf as a result of the mortgage crisis and housing slump in 1980. He entered a career in environmental services supplemented by industrial and other development projects. One such project involved the development of a major manufacturing business in Illinois. As president of the firm, he developed Marseilles Brick Company, an Illinois corporation producing over 60 million heat-fused clay brick annually. The new factory employed the most modern brickmaking technology in North America and was sold to an investor. It is now owned by a world leader in building products manufacturing. Mr. Volini continues certain pro bono housing development activities with projects located in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, in which he shared development responsibilities, and assisting in the construction of new permanent housing in self-help projects in Haiti following the devastating earthquake in 2010 .

Environmental Services

Entering the environmental field, Mr. Volini served as vice president of numerous Midwestern subsidiaries, with Waste Management of North America, in the early 1980s. Later, he served as president of E & E Hauling, Inc. and American Environmental Construction Company in Illinois.

Leaving these firms following their sale to Browning Ferris Industries, Inc., Mr. Volini served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Operating Officer of Continental Waste Industries, Inc. ("CWI"), a public solid waste and environmental services firm, listed on the Nasdaq Exchange, until 1997 when the company merged with Republic Industries, Inc. Mr. Volini served as a Director of other affiliates of CWI, including acquired publicly-traded, reporting companies. As an officer, director and significant shareholder, Mr. Volini was responsible for operations for CWI through a period of growth and transformation into a multi-state publicly held solid waste company, serving the Midwestern and Southeastern United States as well as Mexico and Costa Rica.

Leaving CWI following the Republic Industries merger, Mr. Volini served on the Board of Directors of American Ecology, a Nasdaq listed firm engaged in the management of hazardous and low-level nuclear waste.

Construction and Utilities

Honoring a five-year non-compete negotiated as part of the sale of Continental Waste Industries, Mr. Volini acquired several regulated sewer and water utilities and a company providing services to other utilities in Illinois and Indiana. He also acquired Midwestern Electric, Inc. in Indiana, which is operated today as the remaining subsidiary of Town & Country Utilities, Inc. Midwestern Electric, Inc. provides electrical construction and maintenance through Indiana, maintaining offices and yards in Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne and East Chicago.

Other Current Responsibilities

While maintaining the corporate positions of president of Town & Country Utilities, Inc. and Vice-president of Midwestern Electric, Inc., Mr. Volini divides his time assisting in the management of other family business interests including Heartland Recycling, LLC and DisposAll Waste Services, LLC. These firms provide solid waste collection and recycling services to large and small municipalities in Northeastern Illinois as well as major industrial concerns and commercial customers. As development consultant and partner, Mr. Volini recently completed a major mixed use, commercial and multi-family residential project in Lombard, Illinois.

Mr. Volini and Dr. Volini are also active in charitable endeavors, where Mr. Volini volunteers in finance and facilities management and Dr. Volini volunteers in educational settings while maintaining a limited clinical practice. Their charitable involvement includes Rainbows for All God's Children a grief counseling program; St. John Berchmans School and the renovation of its historic campus in Chicago, Catholic Charities of Chicago, the primary focus of their volunteer efforts. The Fuller Center for Housing, and the reconstruction efforts of Grace International, Inc. in Haiti receive additional support from Mr. Volini.

Mr. Volini received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Law degree from Loyola University of Chicago, while Dr. Volini received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois in Urbana, Masters degrees and Certificates of Advanced Studies from Northeastern Illinois university and the University of Illinois, respectively, and a Doctorate in Education from National-Louis University in Evanston, Illinois.