Florida native Ralph Mills was named Waste Pro Senior Vice President in 2021. In this role, he is responsible for negotiating all waste disposal agreements across the company’s 12-state footprint and assists in managing acquisitions. He also oversees Waste Pro’s Coastal and Northeast Florida Regions, managing 12 hauling facilities, three satellite offices, four transfer stations, eight landfills, a recycling facility, and two CNG stations across north Florida and southern Alabama. In his regional leadership role, he supervises the work of 762 employees who operate 485 trucks each day, servicing more than 455,000 residential and nearly 11,000 commercial customers.
Ralph has more than 40 years of experience in the waste industry, which includes managing collection, disposal, landfill, and recycling operations. He joined Waste Pro in 2006 as Regional Vice President in northwest Florida, growing Waste Pro’s operations from a single contract with the City of Tallahassee to five hauling divisions and three satellite offices across the Florida Panhandle and Alabama Gulf Coast. Throughout his tenure with Waste Pro, Ralph has provided leadership to additional regions across the company’s footprint, previously managing Waste Pro operations in Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee.
Ralph is a graduate of Florida State University with a B.S. in Accounting and a B.S. in Finance.