Standing: James Rogalski, Drew Waring, David Spader, Bobby Kennedy III, Ron Adams
Sitting: Ralph Leard, Mark Vigneri, Patrick Boska
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Ron Adams, P.E. Executive Vice President, Remediation |
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Mr. Adams has 20 years experience. He reviews and approves all remediation activities from selection, to design, to implementation. He manages the ERFS Client Services network. This process involves assigning ERFS’ professional resources to meet clients’ objectives. He has a B.S. in Chem. Eng. from the University of Massachusetts and is a registered Professional Engineer in Florida, New Jersey, and New York.
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Patrick Boska
Director of Field Services |
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Mr. Boska is ERFS’ most experienced team leader in field operations. Having served in multiple field service positions over the past eight years, he is now the primary field trainer for ERFS. He has a B.S. in Marine Safety and Environmental Protection from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
Principal |
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Mr. Kennedy has worked on environmental issues in Russia, Europe and across the Americas and has assisted several indigenous tribes in Latin America and Canada in successfully negotiating treaties protecting traditional homelands. He is a regular contributor to several well-known national publications. His award winning articles have been included in anthologies of America’s Best Crime Writing, Best Political Writing and Best Science Writing. Mr. Kennedy became a principal of the company in 2008.
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Robert F. Kennedy, III
Director of Client Services |
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Mr. Kennedy has extensive experience in public interest environmental issues. With a B.A. from Brown University in International Environmental Politics, he is working with and developing ERFS programs that provide a win-win for all parties involved in soil or groundwater remediation. He manages Key Accounts; matching ERFS resources with customer needs and requests.
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Ralph Leard Executive Vice President, Field Services |
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Mr. Leard has 22 years environmental industry experience in remediation project performance using biological and chem. treatment methods. He holds certifications from NJDEP, EPA, OSHA, HUD and is a Coast Guard Marine Chemist. He is a graduate of Lehigh University with degrees in Engineering and Business Management. Also, he is part of the ERFS executive committee for customer service and field training.
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Mark Munro Principal - Financial Services |
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Mr. Munro is the lead Principal of ERFS EndPoint financial programs. As a highly successful investor in business and real estate development, he understands the need for financial solutions to make many remediation projects even possible.
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James Rogalski Executive Vice President, International Operations |
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Mr. Rogalski has extensive business development and project execution experience in over 30 countries. He is directing ERFS’ International Operations. His experience includes planning training for ERFS’ Japanese affiliate since 2003. He has engineering degrees from the University of Pennsylvania., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and New York University.
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Ronald J. Scrudato, Ph.D. Chief Technologist |
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Dr. Scrudato is the former Director of Environmental Research at the State University of New York at Oswego, and has served on the New York Superfund Management Board and Great Lakes Protection Fund. He has over 30 years of experience with environmental site characterization and remediation, completing projects in 12 countries. He is a contributing developer to the On-Contact® treatment technologies in the area of electrochemical systems, automated in-situ technologies, and specialty systems for the destruction of PCBs and geophysical methods for evaluating remediation progress. He holds geology degrees from Clemson, Tulane and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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David Spader Regional Director |
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Mr. Spader is a Professional Geologist with over 18 years of environmental industry experience both nationally and within NYC. As Regional Director, he oversees environmental services in the NYC Metro, Upstate NY and New England Region. He is responsible for the technical management of project teams, business development and sales, proposal preparation, training and senior technical review of large scope projects. Mr. Spader also provides senior review and consulting services to lenders and investors to support their real estate due diligence needs. Mr. Spader has geology degrees from the University of New Hampshire and the State University of New York at Oswego and is a Registered Professional Geologist in the State of Tennessee.
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Mark Vigneri President and Chief Executive Officer |
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Mr. Vigneri founded ERFS and led the development of the On- Contact family of technologies and customer service business concepts. With hands-on experience at more than 130 site remediation projects, he developed the integrated solutions approach to match in-situ treatment technologies to the business solutions needed to meet clients’ objectives. Mr. Vigneri is widely recognized for pioneering industry firsts in insitu remediation, including the On-Contact Model for technology management, Pay-for-Performance contracting, real-time instrumentation and the End-Point Model for financial services.
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Andrew Waring
Senior Vice President of Technical Services |
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Mr. Waring has an M.E. degree in Environmental Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology and a B.S. degree in Environmental Science & Geology from Lehigh University. He has been working in the field of Environmental Remediation and consulting for more than 20 years and is a licensed Professional Geologist in Pennsylvania, Indiana., Tennessee and Wyoming and the American Institute of Professional Geologists. He holds numerous state licenses for UST testing and closures, subsurface investigation and treatment system operations. He has designed and implemented remedial technologies such as chemical oxidation, soil vapor extraction, free product recovery, multiphase extraction and groundwater pump and treat.
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Standing: Drew Waring, Carlos Santiago, Curt Vigneri, Bobby Kennedy III, Jason Elliott, Christine Jurczak, Rob Park, Brian Grodzki.
Sitting: Patrick Boska, Nelson Santiago, Mark Vigneri, Steve Vargo, Ralph Leard
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ERFS Science Advisory Board – The board interfaces with academia and industry to improve current technologies, assess future trends, complete research and initiate new ERFS service lines.
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David O. Carpenter
M.D., Harvard University, Director, Institute of Health and the Environment (IH&E), State University of New York at Albany. |
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The IH&E maintains a New York certified PCB analytical laboratory at the Institute’s Rennselaer, NewYork campus. Dr. Carpenter served as Dean of School of Public Health, SUNY Albany and directed the Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, New York, Department of Health. He has served as principal investigator and directed industrial, state and federally sponsored research projects involving site assessment, health effects and development of remedial technologies. He has focused his research on human health effects of environmental contaminants.
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Ronald Adams
P. E. B.S. Chem. Eng., U. of Mass., Amherst |
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As Executive Vice President at ERFS, he is responsible for technology development and implementation. He is a certified Professional Engineer in New York, New Jersey and Florida. He has served as a senior executive at consulting and contracting firms. A remediation expert, his focus on the Board is to develop practical and cost-effective implementation of new techniques and improvement in current practices.
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Alexander Gates
Ph.D. Geological Sciences, Va. Tech |
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Dr Gates is a Professor at Rutgers U.-Newark and Chair of the Dept. of Earth and Env. Sciences. His research has focused on the geochemistry of fault zones and regional mapping with expertise in the N. J. and Hudson Highlands and the Piedmont Province of Pa., Md. and Va. among others. He has served as Pres. of the Geological Assoc. of N. J. and the National Assoc. of Geoscience Teachers, Eastern Section and is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. He was formerly employed as an Exploration Geologist with Chevron, USA, a Senior Scientist with the N. Y. State Geological Survey and an Assistant Professor at Lafayette College, Pa.
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Ronald J. Scrudato
Ph.D. Geology, UNC Chapel Hill |
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Dr. Scrudato currently serves as ERFS’ Chief Technologist and is a research associate with the Institute of Health and the Environment, State University of New York at Albany. Prior to joining ERFS, he directed the Environmental Research Center at the University of New York, Oswego for 25 years, including a congener specific PCB laboratory. Appointed as a member of the state Superfund Management Board and the Great Lakes Research Consortium. He holds patents on integrated sediment sampler, Electrochemical Peroxidation Process and patent pending on the Programmable Release Process. He served as technical advisor on three upstate federal Superfund sites and currently a technical advisor on three Formerly Used Defense Sites in Alaska and New York.
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David W. Valentino
Ph.D. Geological Sciences, Va. Tech |
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Dr. Valentino is a Professor of Geology at the State University of New York at Oswego, and serves as Geology Program Coordinator and Director of Field Studies. His research focus is in the fields of brittle and ductile structural geology, geochemistry, metamorphic petrology, and field studies with experience in the mid-Atlantic Piedmont, Hudson Highlands and Adirondacks of New York. He is also involved in shallow-earth geophysics research with focus in the applications of electrical resistivity methods in understanding the surface-to-groundwater transition in unconsolidated materials. He served as the President for the New York. Geological Association, and has contributed to numerous geology field conferences in Pennsylvania., New York and New Jersey. In addition to teaching, he currently contracted as a field geologist for the New York. Geological Survey, and was previously employed as a geologist for the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, as a geological engineering and exploration geologist for Shell Oil Company., and was Assistant Professor and Department. Chair at Concord University, West Virginia.
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Brian Grodzki - Lead Project Manger Jason Elliot – Environmental Scientist / Site Supervisor Christine Jurczak – Senior Project Manager Ed Morales – Environmental Scientist / Instrumentation Rob Park – Field Technician / Site Logistics Carlos Santiago – Field Technician / Site Supervisor Robert Condello – Environmental Scientist / Heavy Operations Nelson Santiago – Senior Environmental Scientist Steven Vargo – Field Project Manager Curt Vigneri - Field Technician / Logistics
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