Blake
Piro

Current Company:

Hart Waste Removal

Title:

Owner

Education (SMU specific):

Economics with Financial Applications 2009

Career Background:

Masters in Healthcare Administration from Trinity University. I was a hospital administrator for Tenet and Baylor/USPI Joint Venture Hospitals for 8 years in various business development roles up to COO level at Baylor Sunnyvale. From Baylor Sunnyvale, I left to purchase and operate Hart Waste Removal. Hart Waste Removal operates and services 9 trucks and roughly 325 dumpsters in and around Dallas for construction waste. Our customers are home owners, general contractors, and home builders. Jobs we handle the construction waste for range from a small bathroom remodel, up to a multiphase apartment complex.

What am I doing – describe your current role and objectives:

Currently I handle all the operations of owning a small business. This includes financial operations, logistics, routing, business development, and client relations. By the end of 2024, we should have doubled our revenue since taking over in June of 2021.

Connections trying to make:

I played football at SMU, and I am looking to connect and reconnect with all SMU alumni in the metroplex. I have not done a good job of that since graduating, so I am looking to get back to and grow my SMU relationships.