$WM

James C. Fish Jr.

Waste Management

President & CEO • Since 2016 • Industrials

📊 CEO Reputation Score

FY2025 vs FY2024 · Source: SEC EDGAR filings

53/100

Blend of this company's year-over-year free-cash-flow and profit improvement, each ranked as a percentile against every scored company in the three indexes.

Free cash flow: $2.2B → $2.8B (+30.4% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024
Profit (net income): $2.7B → $2.7B (−1.4% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024

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Overview

James C. Fish Jr. is the president & ceo of Waste Management since 2016. Waste Management is a Industrials company headquartered in Houston, Texas, founded in 1968, and one of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 — every one of which is profiled on this site.

Leadership

James holds the chief executive role at Waste Management with the title President & CEO — in post since 2016. This page is the concise leadership record for Waste Management in the S&P 500 CEO index; the site's fully researched long-form profiles (career timelines, education, achievements, setbacks, philosophy and sourced quotes) currently cover the index's ten largest companies, and this entry will be expanded in the same format.

At a Glance

Sector: Industrials
Ticker: $WM
Headquarters: Houston, Texas
Founded: 1968
CEO since: 2016
Index: S&P 500 (#482 of 500)