CVR Partners LP has announced that Mark Pytosh has been named president and CEO of the partnership’s general partner, CVR GP LLC, effective May 5, 2014. He will be based at the LP’s headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas. CVR announced in November that President and CEO Byron Kelley planned to retire Jan. 1.
Pytosh was appointed as a director of CVR GP in June 2011. He will continue to serve as a director and as chairman of the environmental, health and safety committee.
Pytosh most recently served as executive vice president and CFO for Tervita Corp. based in Alberta. Formerly known as CCS Corp., Tervita is a North American environmental and energy services company. Pytosh has also served as senior vice president and CFO for Covanta Energy Corp., which owns and operates energy-from-waste power facilities, biomass power facilities, and independent power plants in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He was also executive vice president and CFO for Waste Services Inc., an integrated solid waste services company.
Pytosh spent 18 years in the investment banking industry. From 2000-2004, he was a managing director in investment banking at Lehman Brothers, where he led the firm’s global industrial group. He was also a managing director at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where he led the firm’s environmental services and automotive industry groups.
Pytosh holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.