About

Our Background

Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services was conceived, designed and built in cooperation with members of the Maryland Hospital Association in 1991 to provide a regional solution to the medical waste management requirements with the goal of building a facility to provide local specialty waste services and eliminating the need for each facility to provide their own incineration services.

Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services provides comprehensive medical waste solutions including collection, transfer, transportation, recycling, waste reduction, sharps management, disposal, and consulting services to hospitals, medical offices, pharmacies and other healthcare providers. The company is dedicated to delivering customized, professional responses to all medical waste disposal challenges. Curtis Bay owns state-of-the-art medical waste processing and material management technology, and continues to invest in research and sustainable waste management solutions that generate the lowest carbon footprint. As an industry leader, Curtis Bay is focused on safety, compliance, and customer service.

Our Core Values

Team

We are collaborative in our efforts to deliver on our mission. We understand that life and business are a team sport and key to our continued success.

Respect

We treat each other, our customers, the environment and all our stakeholders with respect and understand that our unique attributes have the potential to make us great.

Integrity

When we make a promise we keep it. We deal honestly and ethically in all that we do.

Driven

We are action oriented and we refuse to fail. We course correct quickly and deliver for our customers!

Continuous Improvement

We are passionate about what we do and seek to be excellent in all facets of our business. We are active learners and tirelessly look for ways to improve and to be better today than we were yesterday.

Executive Team

Mark Schifani, CEO

Mark Schifani

Mr. Mark Schifani is an accomplished leader with significant business acumen in finance, sales, market development and operations. He is a team-oriented professional with 28 years of experience creating business sustainability across multiple disciplines. He is known for his energetic and service-oriented leadership. He consistently demonstrates his desire to lead by example and proves that his deed follows his word. His strongest aptitude is in developing the business processes and talented people to build, grow and engage teams to perform to the expected results.

Mark is a graduate from the University of Memphis with a bachelor’s degree of Business Administration in Accounting. He has held numerous positions in the waste industry, including Region Controller, Assistant Corporate Controller and enjoyed his time in Market Development. Most of Mark's career was with BFI and Republic Services, where he was awarded the Finance Leader of the Year in 2013. As Region Controller, Mark was responsible for 50 locations across 6 states, over 2000 employees, and $750 million in revenue.

Allen Ruttenberg, COO

Allen Ruttenberg

Mr. Allen Ruttenberg joined the Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services team in July 2016 as the Mid Atlantic District Manager focused on the overall leadership of Sales and Operations in the Virginia, North & South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee region. In February 2018 he stepped into the Vice President of Sales and Marketing role to lead the Marketing, Inside Sales, Key Regional Accounts, and New Product Development teams as well as develop strategies that will motivate and drive success. With over 18 years of experience in the environmental services sector, Mr. Ruttenberg has held leadership roles at some of the industry’s largest waste services companies.

Prior to Curtis Bay, Mr. Ruttenberg was an East Region Director for Republic Services which covered 16 states and Puerto Rico, and had direct leadership of Municipal Services generating over $700 million in annualized revenue. He also served as Area Sales Manager for Republic Services in the North-East Region, including responsibility for overall growth in Commercial, Industrial and Municipal lines of business covering 7 States and generating $450 million in annual revenue.

He is best known for his ability to drive profitable results through team building, market segmentation, strategic selling and designing customer facing programs to create a one-of-a-kind customer experience. Allen’s current focus at Curtis Bay is driving organic growth, expanding service offerings and enhancing customer experience. Mr. Ruttenberg holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management and Psychology from Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania and a Six Sigma Certification from Villanova University. Allen currently lives in Charlotte, NC with his Wife and 2 children.

Karol Round, CFO

Karol Round

Karol Round joined the Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services team in 2021 as the Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Curtis Bay, she served in several leadership roles at Republic Services for 14 years, most recently as Vice President of Finance. She was responsible for all finance support activities for Operations, Fleet, Safety, Sales, Customer Experience, Marketing and Revenue Management overseeing $10B+ in revenue. During her tenure at Republic Services, Karol’s key accomplishments included finance transformation, process improvements, pricing execution and achievement of cost savings. Before Republic Services, Karol worked at Continental Airlines as the Director of Finance and at Ernst & Young.

Karol graduated Summa Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Houston and is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Pricing Professional. She is a solution-focused, collaborative Operations Finance Leader with strengths in talent development and process improvements that have helped build high performing teams which resulted in positive business outcomes. As a business partner, she has strong innovative, analytical, and financial skills to help execute revenue growth and cost efficiency goals. Karol is best known for her professionalism and teamwork attitude.