Management Profiles
James W. Schleiffarth is the founder and CEO of 212Resources, previously known as H2Oil. Since the late 1970s, he has been involved with the commercialization of separation technologies for industrial waste, emulsions, and wastewaters. In 1983, Mr. Schleiffarth, along with his partner, Bob Waits, founded Tracker Services, Inc. as a mobile filtration service company to recover oil and reduce waste volumes from emulsions generated in oil production fields, refineries, and petro-chemical plants. In April 1988, Waste Management, Inc. (WMI) acquired Tracker, after which Mr. Schleiffarth served as an executive with WMI until 1993.
At WMI he managed the commercialization of new technologies and became the Vice President of its waste-to-fuel program. He left WMI to become Executive Vice President for Allwaste, Inc., where he was responsible for waste treatment facilities in Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Dallas and Denver.
Mr. Schleiffarth joined Vacom at the appeal of its founders and became a major stockholder and President in 1995. There, he developed the vapor compression, turbulent flow, flash evaporation technology to create a patented recovery and water treatment system suitable for a wide range of difficult industrial applications. In 2004, Mr. Schleiffarth, founded H2Oil, purchased the Vacom intellectual property for use in the energy sector and licensed back to Vacom the rights for use in other markets.
Robert B. Waits serves as Executive Vice President for Business and Government Affairs, with responsibility for marketing, business development, and agency relations. He began his career with fifteen years experience as a registered architect and as a senior economic and community development manager in county government. With a change in career path, Mr. Waits gained significant domestic and international business development experience in the environmental marketplace.
He partnered with Mr. Schleiffarth to form Tracker Services, Inc., where he served as the company’s Vice President of Sales and Development. After Tracker Services was acquired by Waste Management Inc., Mr. Waits was tasked with developing WMI’s remediation business in Europe and Asia. In 1998, after eight successful years in remediation business development in The Hague, Singapore and Bangkok, he returned to the U.S to join Koch Industries, Inc. Three years later he joined EnvironMax, Inc., a company with a web-based software system for chemical and waste management prior to his involvement in the startup of 212 Resources.
Michael Zumwalt is currently the Executive Vice President of Finance and Strategic Development. Most recently, Mr. Zumwalt served as CFO of Envirocare, one of the most successful environmental companies in the nation. It was acquired by an investor group headed by Lindsay Goldberg & Bessemer.
Prior to joining Envirocare in March 1997, Mr. Zumwalt served as a Vice President of Operations for Perma-Fix. Mr. Zumwalt joined Perma-Fix when it acquired Residual Technologies, Inc. in September 1993. At RTI Mr. Zumwalt operated a wastewater treatment facility near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Prior to his becoming CEO in June 1990, RTI had incurred numerous environmental violations and was the subject of an ongoing EPA compliance action. Under his leadership, RTI’s facility quickly became one of only 26 facilities of over 400 nationally to go over one year without a violation. By 1997, RTI’s facility was one of only a handful of facilities nationally to complete six years without an environmental violation. Mr. Zumwalt brings a unique combination of financial and operational experience.
Board of Directors: Jim Schleiffarth, Mickey Gallivan, Peter Mills, Bob Waits