ABM Industries Appoints New Corporate Controller.

Business Editors

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2001

ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM) has selected Maria de la Pena as the Company's new controller as of July 1, 2001. De la Pena, 41, succeeds Vernon Skelton, 57, who is retiring after a distinguished 27-year career with ABM.

"We very much appreciate all that Vernon has accomplished, and welcome Maria as an important addition to the ABM management team," said Henrik Slipsager, president & chief executive officer of ABM.

Reporting to ABM's senior vice president & chief financial officer, George Sundby, de la Pena will be responsible for general accounting and reporting, budgeting and planning, and financial analysis.

A certified public accountant, de la Pena most recently served as controller at Vectiv Corporation in Berkeley, California. She was previously employed as assistant controller of Transamerica Financial Corporation, and held several other management positions within Transamerica Corporation. Before joining Transamerica in 1986, de la Pena was a senior auditor with the certified public accounting firm of Harb, Levy & Weiland in San Francisco. She received her bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of the Phillipines, and a master's degree in business administration from the University of San Francisco McLaren School of Business. De la Pena resides in Mill Valley, California.

ABM Industries Incorporated is the largest facility services contractor listed on the New York Stock Exchange. With annualized sales in excess of $1.9 billion and more than 60,000 employees, ABM provides air conditioning, elevator, engineering, janitorial, lighting, parking, security and related services to thousands of commercial, industrial, institutional and retail facilities in hundreds of cities across North America. The ABM Family of Services includes American Building Maintenance, Ampco System Parking, American Commercial Security (ACSS), ABM Engineering, ABM Janitorial, Amtech Elevator, Amtech Lighting and CommAir Mechanical.