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Before launching his consulting firm in 2002, Hank Waxman founded Metropolitan Mining Company, Inc. (MetroMining), in Maspeth, Queens (NYC) in 1983. After serving as MetroMining's chief executive officer for more than 18 years, he sold the Company in October 2001. MetroMining employed more than 100 persons and accounted for more than 40 percent of the greater New York area's returnable container deposit redemptions and recycling.
He graduated Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1967 with a B.A. Degree in Fine Arts before joining Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) as a New York City Sales Administrator in 1968. He went to Pittsburgh, PA, to work as an Industry Marketing Assistant in 1969 where he specialized in the machinery and equipment industry. Three years later, he was again transferred to Los Angeles to serve as a Field Sales Representative for extrusions and other mill products.
Returning to Pittsburgh in 1975, he was appointed Alcoa's Manager of Marketing Communications for the Passenger Automotive, Building Products and Technology Marketing Divisions. A year later, he was named Manager of Marketing Communications - Alcoa Closure Systems International in Richmond, IN, and then Distributor Sales Manager in Richmond until 1983, when he established MetroMining in New York.
Hank won the 1991 Entrepreneur of the Year Award in New York in the Processing Manufacturing category presented by Ernst & Young, the international professional services firm; Inc. Magazine; and Merrill Lynch, the business financial services organization. After 1992, he served as a judge in New York for that prestigious award, and in 2002 he served as a judge in the national competition.
In 1995 Hank acquired the rights to the Authentic Earth Flag, the well known, worldwide symbol of peace and the environment. The flag, created for the world's first Earth Day celebration in 1970 was owned by a failing corporation, and was in danger of falling into nonexistence. Under his guidance the Earth Flag continues to "fly" profitably, and this great "flag for all people" has been preserved.
Hank has received a number of community service and industry awards, among them are citations from New York Mayor Edward I. Koch for providing employment for disabled persons, from the Lexington School for the deaf in New York for employing and training the school's graduates, from the County of Nassau and the Town of Hempstead, and the Queensboro Correctional Facility for employing and training of prison work release graduates. In 1994 he was named to the Governor's Rehabilitation Advisory Committee of the Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped, where he served the State of New York for three years, and was elected Vice Chairman of that Committee in his final year of service. In 1997 he was elected to the West Maspeth Development Corporation Board of Directors, and served on that organization's Business Improvement District (BID) Planning and Review Committee.
He is a past member of the Turnaround Management Association, the Institute of American Entrepreneurs; and the Chamber of Commerce, Borough of Queens. He was also a Director and charter member of the Association of Post Consumer Plastic Recyclers, Inc. (APR). He has earned recognition from the New York State Food Merchants Association, the Brewers, Beverage and Food Packers Association, the Labor Committee for United Cerebral Palsy of New York, and the New York State Employer Recognition Award for providing employment to people that are handicapped, from VESID (Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities). Hank has two grown children, and two grandchildren. He currently resides in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
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