Gender Male
Mr. Crawford graduated with his bachelor’s degree in 1961 and he and his wife promptly headed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for his first job with Armstrong Cork Company as a Staff Engineer. He then went on to be a Senior Staff Engineer with Brunswick Sports and Vice President of Farmbest Dairies in Jacksonville, Florida.
After serving as Vice
President and Director of a conglomerate that included Central Services, the largest provider of residential waste services in Orange County, Florida, and Vice President and Manager of the southeast region of Waste Resources, a public solid waste company headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, he left the corporate world in 1977 to found Southland Waste Systems in Jacksonville, Florida. Southland grew and was eventually purchased by Republic Services, owned by Wayne Huizenga, in 1995. He stayed with Republic as an Area President until 1998.
He returned to the waste disposal industry in 2001 as the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Advanced Disposal Services. It grew to over $150 million in revenues and 800 employees and was sold to HighStar Capital in 2006. Since then, he has returned to being President and sole owner of CAVCO, an investment and holding company in Jacksonville, Florida that he started in 1998 after leaving Republic.
Mr. Crawford is a Bull Gator and member of President’s Council and former member of the Gator Boosters Board. He and his wife have been major contributors to the new Cancer Center at Shands.
