Primary Job Title Founder and Chairman Emeritus Primary Organization 
Service Corp International
Location Houston, Texas, United States Regions Greater Houston Area, Southern US Gender Male
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Mr. Waltrip is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of SCI. He has provided invaluable leadership to the Company for over 50 years. A licensed funeral director, Mr. Waltrip grew up in his family's funeral business and assumed management of the firm in the 1950s. He began buying additional funeral homes in the 1960s and achieved significant cost
efficiencies through the “cluster” strategy of sharing pooled resources among numerous locations. At the end of 2014, the network he began had grown to include more than 2,000 funeral service locations and cemeteries. Mr. Waltrip took SCI public in 1969. Mr. Waltrip holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Houston.
