Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> June 11, 2001
H. SCOTT HOLDEN is President and Chief Executive Officer of Integrated
Technology Group, Inc. He completed numerous technical courses,
graduating from Divers Training Academy, Ft. Pierce, Florida, with a
degree in Commercial Diving, and continued on to advanced saturation
diving training at the Commercial Diving College, San Pedro, California,
where he obtained a degree as Professional Diver. In 1977, he joined
Sub-Sea International, an underwater construction company located in
Aberdeen, Scotland. He worked offshore on oil rig construction projects
for companies such as British Petroleum, Shell Oil, Phillips Petroleum
and Chevron, to name a few. He returned to the United States in 1980
where he briefly attended the University of Oklahoma and enrolled in
Petroleum Engineering. In 1981 he left OU and took a position with
Triple H Drilling Corp. In 1983 he formed his own drilling company
operation with two drilling rigs and two completion workover rigs. Mr.
Holden was also involved in the logging and final completion of drilled
wells. Mr. Holden began to pursue the environmental field in 1987 and
during a two-year period, at which time he completed 21 courses,
seminars and programs, he saw that the scrap tire problem was an area in
the environmental field that needed to be addressed. In 1987, he sold
his drilling company and formed Safe Tire Disposal Corp. He oversees the
corporate operations as well as the regulatory, governmental and
legislative affairs. Mr. Holden designed and oversaw construction of the
Oklahoma and Texas facilities and is singularly responsible for
originating many of the design improvements. In August 2000, Safe Tire
Disposal Corp. merged with Integrated Technology Group, Inc. Mr. Holden
was named CEO and President of the company. Mr. Holden serves on the
Program Advisory Board of the Center for Legislative Energy and
Environmental Research (CLEER), a division of the Energy Council and the
National Environmental Policy Institute (NEPI) based in Washington, DC. Profile
Integrated Technologies Group, Inc.?
Mr. Holden: We began our operations in 1989-1990 in the State of
Oklahoma as Safe Tire
