Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 17, 2002
JERALD L. PULLINS is President and Chief Operating Officer of Service
Corporation International. He first served SCI while working as an
Auditor for Arthur Young & Company in 1966. He joined the company in
1969 as a Vice President in the corporate acquisition department. He
left SCI in 1979 to join Merrill Lynch, where he served as President and
CEO of Merrill Lynch Mortgage Corporation. In 1985, Mr. Pullins formed
the Sentinel Group, a funeral service company, which he later sold to
SCI in 1991. When SCI entered the United Kingdom in 1994, Mr. Pullins
was promoted to Executive Vice President of European Operations and
moved to London. He relocated to Houston in 1997 to lead all
international operations for the company, was promoted to Senior
Executive Vice President in 1999, and elected President in 2000. He
holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of
Kansas and an MBA from the University of Texas. Profile
Mr. Pullins: Service Corporation is a company developed over the last 40
years, beginning in the early 1960s, primarily
