Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dyckerhoff, Inc.

Mr. Pardo served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dyckerhoff, Inc., a major U.S. producer of cement, and as the Chairman of its subsidiaries, Lonestar Industries, Inc. and Glens Falls Cement Co., Inc., from July 1998 until his retirement in December 2002.  Prior to joining Dyckerhoff, Mr. Pardo was President and Chief Executive Officer of Ruhr American Coal Corporation from 1992 to 1998, Chairman of Newalta Corporation, a leading Canadian industrial waste management and environmental services company, from 1991 to 1998, and Chief Executive Officer of Newalta during its restructuring in 1991.  Mr. Pardo also served as Executive Vice President of Quorum Funding, a Canadian venture capital firm, during 1991 and 1992.  He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Philip Services, Inc., a waste management, scrap metals and industrial services company, from April 1998 to November 1998.

Mr. Pardo currently serves on the Board of Directors of Synthes, Inc.  He also served as a Director of Philip Services, Inc. from 1994 to 2003, Newalta Corporation from 1991 to 2009, and other public companies, including Western Prospector Group Ltd, Exchange National Bank, Chicago, Invatec (valve distribution), ISG Technologies (medical imaging) and Panaco, Inc. (oil and gas exploration and production).

He  has served as a Dynegy Director since 2011.