Mr. Bleznick has served as a Director and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of our general partner since March 2023. Mr. Bleznick previously served as the Vice President/Taxes of various affiliates of Carl C. Icahn from April 2002 until his retirement in April 2023. Prior to his service with the Icahn organization, Mr. Bleznick had a twenty-two year career as an attorney in private practice, including as a partner at DLA Piper and Gordon Altman Weitzen Shalov and Wein. Mr. Bleznick has been a director of Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public acquisition vehicle, since August 2020. Mr. Bleznick also previously served as a director of various private companies indirectly controlled by Mr. Icahn including WestPoint Home LLC, a home textiles manufacturer, and American Entertainment Properties Corp., a holding company that indirectly owns a controlling interest in CVR Energy, Inc. Mr. Bleznick received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Cincinnati, a J.D. from The Ohio State University College of Law and a L.L.M. in Taxation from the New York University School of Law.
Mr. Lamp has served as a Director of our general partner since January 2018, including as Chairman of the Board from January 2018 to March 2023. Mr. Lamp has served as the Executive Chairman of our general partner and as President and Chief Executive Officer of our affiliate, CVR Energy, Inc. ("CVR Energy") since December 2017 and as a director of CVR Energy since January 2018. Mr. Lamp has more than forty years of technical, commercial and operational experience in the refining and chemical industries. He previously served as a director of our affiliate, the general partner of CVR Refining, LP, an independent downstream energy limited partnership, from January 2018 to February 2019, and prior to joining CVR Partners, served in various senior executive roles for Western Refining, Inc., Northern Tier Energy LP, and HollyFrontier Corporation. Mr. Lamp graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering.
Mr. Pytosh has served as a Director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of our general partner, since 2011 and 2014, respectively, as well as the Executive Vice President – Corporate Services for our affiliate, CVR Energy, Inc., since January 2018. Mr. Pytosh has over thirty years of experience in senior executive roles with various companies in the fertilizer, petroleum refining, environmental, power, solid waste and investment banking industries, including as chief financial officer for Tervita Corp., Covanta Energy Corp. and Waste Services, Inc. Mr. Pytosh has served as a director of the University of Illinois Foundation since 2007 and Fertilizer Institute since 2015. Mr. Pytosh received a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Ms. Ecton has served as a Director of our general partner since 2008. Ms. Ecton is chairman and chief executive officer of EEI, Inc. which she founded in 1998. EEI is a management consulting practice which provides private equity and sub debt firms with turnaround assistance, due diligence through market/operational assessments of companies being considered for acquisition, as well as mentoring and coaching for executive officers. Ms. Ecton has more than thirty-five years of experience serving in director and executive leadership roles for public and privately held companies in the banking, automotive, food processing, retailing, mail services and other industries, as well as for non-profit organizations. Ms. Ecton served as a director of KAR Auction Services, Inc. from 2013 to 2019. Ms. Ecton serves on the Board of Trustees of Hillsdale College and on the board of Educational Media Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) public charity. Ms. Ecton was elected and served on the Harvard Board of Overseers, and as president of the Harvard Business School Association's Executive Council. She also served on the Business Advisory Council of the Carnegie Mellon Graduate School of Industrial Administration. Ms. Ecton earned her Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and received her Bachelor of Arts in economics from Wellesley College, graduating as a Durant Scholar.
Mr. Muller has served as a Director of our general partner since 2008. Mr. Muller is currently the president of Toby Enterprises, which he founded in 1999 to invest in startup companies, and until 2018, served as the chairman of Topaz Technologies, LTD., a software engineering company. Until August 2009, Mr. Muller served as chairman and chief executive officer of the technology design and manufacturing from TenX Technology, Inc., which he founded in 1985. Mr. Muller has more than forty years of experience in the technology, energy and petroleum, chemical and other industries, including in senior executive roles and in roles focusing on business acquisitions and joint ventures. Mr. Muller served in the United States Army and received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration from Texas A&M University.
Mr. Shea has served as a Director of our general partners since 2014. Mr. Shea served as operating partner of Snow Phipps, a private equity firm, from 2013 to 2021. He has served as a director of Viskase Companies, Inc., a meat casing company, since October 2006, and currently serves as its audit committee chair. Mr. Shea previously served as a director of Voltari Corporation, a company in the business of acquiring, financing and leasing commercial real properties, and as its chairman, from September 2015 to July 2019; Hennessy Capital Acquisition Company IV, a special purpose acquisition company, from February 2019 to December 2020; DecoPac, Inc., a privately-held supplier of bakery goods, and as its chairman, from 2017 to 2021; FeraDyne Outdoors, LLC, a privately-held manufacturer of sporting goods products, and as its chairman from May 2014 to February 2019; and Teasdale Foods Inc., a privately-held provider of Hispanic food products, and as its chairman from November 2014 to February 2019. Mr. Shea began his career with General Foods Corporation and has more than thirty years of experience serving in executive management roles in the food manufacturing and packaging industries, among others, and serving on the board of directors for numerous privately held companies. He has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Iona College.