Thomas W. Handley has been a director of Republic Services since July 2016, chairs the Talent & Compensation Committee and serves on the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee. He is a senior advisor and former Chief Operating Officer of Cascade Asset Management Company, the investment office for William H. Gates III and the Gates Foundation Trust.
He is the former President and Chief Operating Officer of Ecolab, a hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services company, and earlier spent two decades in senior executive roles at The Procter & Gamble Company, including Vice President, Global Planning, Marketing and Always Global Franchise.