Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 17, 2002

Jerald Pullins – Service Corporation International (srv)

JERALD L. PULLINS is President and Chief Operating Officer of Service Corporation International. He first served SCI while working as an Auditor for Arthur Young & Company in 1966. He joined the company in 1969 as a Vice President in the corporate acquisition department. He left SCI in 1979 to join Merrill Lynch, where he served as President and CEO of Merrill Lynch Mortgage Corporation. In 1985, Mr. Pullins formed the Sentinel Group, a funeral service company, which he later sold to SCI in 1991. When SCI entered the United Kingdom in 1994, Mr. Pullins was promoted to Executive Vice President of European Operations and moved to London. He relocated to Houston in 1997 to lead all international operations for the company, was promoted to Senior Executive Vice President in 1999, and elected President in 2000. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Kansas and an MBA from the University of Texas. Profile
TWST: Can we start out with a quick overview of Service Corporation?

Mr. Pullins: Service Corporation is a company developed over the last 40

years, beginning in the early 1960s, primarily