Management Team

As a Principal with ERFS, Mr. Adams is a chemical engineer with over 20 years experience as an environmental professional.  He maintains expertise in site remediation, site investigation, risk-based remediation goal determination, due diligence, and air/water discharge permitting and compliance.  Mr. Adams is experienced in managing petroleum and hazardous waste cleanup sites, Superfund sites, as well as nuclear power and nuclear radiological control projects.  He manages substantial portfolios of industrial and commercial sites addressing a wide range of organic and inorganic contaminants.  He applies creative problem solving together with emerging and innovative technologies combined with risk-based exit strategies under specialized pay-for-performance contracting.  He has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (with a minor in Chemistry) from the University of Massachusetts and is a registered Professional Engineer in Florida, New Jersey, and New York.  As an officer in the U.S. Navy, Mr. Adams served onboard nuclear submarines operating nuclear power plants, ballistic missile systems, and ship-wide systems.

Mr. Boska is ERFS' most experienced team leader in field operations with expertise in injection logistics, DOT requirements, local authority and fire department permitting, and innovative injection methods.  He has developed automated and unitized mixing and injection systems for special projects and is the in-house expert on propagation installation, including down-hole monitoring systems where he also trains other personnel.  Mr. Boska developed localized direct push injection techniques and standard procedures.  Having served in multiple field service positions over the past ten years, he is now the primary field trainer for ERFS.  He has a Bachelor of Science in Marine Safety and Environmental Protection from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

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 and his award-winning articles have been included in anthologies of America's Best Crime Writing, Best Political Writing and Best Science Writing.  Mr. Kennedy moved from an advisory position to a Principal of the company in 2009.

Mr. Kennedy has extensive experience in public interest environmental issues. With a Bachelor of Arts 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.  Formerly a full-time Director of Client Services in 2008 and 2009, Mr. Kennedy is now a part time consultant for major ERFS projects involving public interest groups and best practices for corporations.  Mr. Kennedy is currently working on international films and documentaries.

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. Mr. Munro coordinates operations between the financial firms and associated entities that support ERFS' innovative financial services.

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.  Dr. Scrudato 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 in Chapel Hill.

Mr. Spader is a professional geologist with over 20 years of environmental industry experience both nationally and within New York City.  As Regional Director, Mr. Spader oversees environmental services in ERFS' national and metro regions. He is responsible for the technical management of project teams, business development and sales, proposal preparation, health and safety 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.

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 for in-situ remediation, including the On-Contact Model for technology management, Pay-for-Performance contracting, real-time instrumentation, and the End-Point Model for financial services.

Mr. Waring has a Masters of Engineering degree in Environmental Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science and 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.   Mr. Waring was authorized as an LSRP in New Jersey as part of the initial group of approved license holders in the state.

Mr. Leard has over 25 years of environmental industry experience in remediation project performance using biological and chemical 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.

Mr. Rogalski has extensive business development and project execution experience in over 30 countries and directs 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.

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.

The IH&E maintains a New York certified PCB analytical laboratory at the Institute's Rensselaer in New York.  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.

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 and 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.

Dr Gates is a Professor at Rutgers University in Newark and Chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.  His research has focused on the geochemistry of fault zones and regional mapping with expertise in the New Jersey and Hudson Highlands and the Piedmont Province of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia among others.  He has served as President of the Geological Association of New Jersey and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Eastern Section and is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. Dr. Gates 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, Pennsylvania.

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 a patent pending on the Programmable Release Process.  He served as technical advisor on three upstate federal Superfund sites and is currently a technical advisor on three formerly used defense sites in Alaska and New York.

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.  Dr. Valentino 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 is currently contracted as a field geologist for the New York Geological Survey.  He 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 in West Virginia.