Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> August 2, 2004

DICK ELLISON – TRC COMPANIES INC (TRR)

DICK ELLISON has served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of TRC Companies, Inc., since May 1997. From 1984 to 1997 he was President of Environmental Solutions, Inc. (ESI), a company founded by Dr. Ellison and a partner in 1984 that was acquired by TRC in 1994. ESI, which had revenue of about $30 million in 1994, served as environmental consulting engineers for many of the largest remediation and waste management projects in the western United States. Prior to 1984, Dr. Ellison served as Executive Vice President for one of the nation's largest consulting and engineering firms, D'Appolonia Consulting Engineers, Inc. In that role he established one of the first environmental and waste management consulting organizations in the country, an opportunity created by new laws and regulations that were established to reduce the environmental impact of development, and to clean up sites where polluted ground and surface water created public health hazards. Dr. Ellison holds a BS, MS and PhD degree in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University Profile
TWST: Let's begin with a description of where TRC is today and how you

got there.

Dr. Ellison: TRC Companies is a consulting and engineering company

focused on three major markets: