Michael O'Friel

Michael “Mike” O'Friel serves as senior vice president and general counsel for Wheelabrator Technologies where he is responsible for all legal, environmental compliance, communications, community engagement and governmental affairs for the business. As general counsel, Mike oversees all legal issues associated with operations, project development, acquisitions and divestitures, environmental compliance, financings, state and federal legislative activities and internal and external communications. Joining the Wheelabrator ranks in 1991, he served in various roles within the legal department before assuming his current role as general counsel in 1999. Prior to his life at Wheelabrator, Mike worked for Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP as an associate after he earned his Juris Doctorate from Boston College Law School and undergraduate degree in government from Harvard University.