About us

HERBERT KAHEN

Board Member

From 2003 to 2007 Herbert Kahen was the CEO and part owner of Safety Compliance Services where he took the company from a regional company to a national company, working with Doctors and assisting them with compliance and pick up of their medical waste. He sold the company to the second biggest medical waste disposal provider and stayed on as the President of the new company from 2007 until 2009.

From 2012 to 2024 he was the Founder/CEO of Waste Integrated Solution Experts. WISE now operates nationwide and provides a full scope of medical waste, linens, hazardous, universal, and compliance services to a myriad of healthcare providers.

Brandon Kahen

CEO

Mr. Kahen began his career at a young age, working for Safety Compliance Services. He learned much in this role working with the president of the company about running a profitable, large-scale operation.
In 2007, Mr. Kahen started working with a wealth advisor at Morgan Stanley. During his five years there, he learned the various aspects of finance, portfolio -management and the various rules and regulations governing the process.
By 2012, Mr. Kahen joined WISE as its COO and was instrumental in creating the infrastructure WISE utilizes until today.
Mr. Kahen is driven for success with his ultimate goal being, to create a portfolio of projects that he has built from the ground up. He is passionate about applying his business and technology acumen to his entrepreneurial endeavors.

Mike Fields

Chief Growth Officer

Mike Fields has joined WISE as Chief Growth Officer and Board Member. He will pursue strategically targeted acquisitions and organic growth opportunities across the U.S. to further strengthen WISE’s capabilities for national healthcare clients. He will also lead strategic initiatives to expand WISE’s healthcare offering with respect to medical, linen, hazardous, pharmaceutical, solid waste, and other services.
Mike has extensive leadership experience in healthcare waste management. He has long been considered a pioneer of the industry since serving as the CEO and President of BFI Medical Waste Services beginning in 1989. He expanded operations there nationwide, then globally into Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia until BFI’s acquisition by Stericycle in 1996. Later, in 2004, he founded and served as CEO/President of MedServe, growing primarily through acquisitions before selling to Stericycle in 2009. In 2016, he was Founder and CEO/President of Trilogy MedWaste, again achieving national scale. He also served as CEO/President at each of BFI Services Group, BFI Pharmaceutical Return Services, and BFI Transportation Services, and was integral in multiple other large-scale industry consolidations such as Coach USA, American Residential Services, and NetVersant, completing over 455 acquisitions.
Mike currently chairs multiple privately-held companies and holds a BBA in Economics and Marketing from Lamar University.