Board of Directors

Scott J. Adamowski, P.E.
Located at offices in Plymouth, Mich., Scott Adamowski is an Associate with Conestoga-Rovers & Associates Inc. He has provided consulting services to the automotive and other industries for over 20 years, specializing in environmental and infrastructure work primarily in industrial settings. He has authored and co-authored numerous technical publications and has been active in several professional/technical societies. Examples of programs he has been involved with include:

• Remediation system design and installation
• Water and wastewater system improvements
• Facility upgrades, decommissioning & demo
• Environmental compliance programs
• Energy management
• Pollution prevention/sustainable design
• Strategic environmental management/ISO
• Process installation/upgrade
• IT/data management

Tracy Ashlock Barton
Tracey Barton has been involved with the environmental business since 1986, when she helped start up an environmental consulting and services firm. Since then, she as continued to help businesses involved in the environmental market through her business, Combined Resource Solutions. She accomplished a B.S. degree in Health Education and an A.S. in Biology from the University of Kansas. Her extensive experience in the field has led to the authorship and contribution to many articles in the environmental field in many trade magazines.

Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Director of Bergeson & Campbell P.C.
Lynn L. Bergeson is the managing director of Bergeson & Campbell P.C., a Washington, D.C. law firm concentrating on chemical product approval, regulation and litigation, and its consulting affiliate, The Acta Group L.L.C., with offices in Washington, D.C., and Manchester, England. Bergeson counsels clients on legal issues arising from the health, safety, and other aspects of nanotechnologies, biotechnology and related emerging transformative technologies; and on general chemical issues involving chemical product registration. She is presently Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, home to 9,000 lawyers practicing in the environmental, energy and resources law areas, and serves on many advisory boards and steering committees. She writes and speaks frequently on topics pertinent to chemical regulation, nanotechnology and nanoscale materials, and developing global regulatory and alternative governance regimes intended to address the risks and benefits of emerging technologies.

James C. Berry, P.E., Independent Environmental Consultant
Jim Berry has a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from LSU and is a Fellow Member of the Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA). He is an author and editor of many EPA reports and magazine articles, and authored a chapter in a textbook on air pollution controls. He has held positions with Monsanto and the U.S. Army Reserves, as well as experiencing 20 years with the EPA.

Lawrence Goldenhersh, President and CEO of Enviance
Larry Goldenhersh founded Enviance in October 1999, bringing more than 15 years of law experience, including 10 years as a partner with Irell & Manella LLC in Los Angeles.

Goldenhersh founded Enviance to drive a sea of transformational change in the quality of compliance management by leveraging the revolutionary power of the Internet. As President and CEO, he is responsible for the strategic and operational management of the company.

Prior to founding Enviance, Goldenhersh was a member of the Los Angeles law firm of Irell & Manella, a commercial firm of more than 150 lawyers, where he was a partner and served on the firm's management committee. He specialized in the representation of technology companies and others in complex commercial litigation, including intellectual property litigation. During his 15 year tenure, Goldenhersh's clients included the H.J. Heinz Company and Speaker of the California Assembly. Prior to beginning the practice of law, he served as a law clerk to The Honorable Richard P. Matsch, U.S. District Court Judge.

Goldenhersh holds a bachelors degree from Duke University and a law degree from the University of Virginia.

Goldenhersh has published regularly on the trends in the software as a service arena, and has lectured at Duke University on performance-based compliance organizations. He has also lectured at many investor, technology and environmental, health and safety conferences.

Daniel E. Johnson, President of SCS Engineers
Daniel Johnson is highly experienced and well-versed in environmental affairs. He has managed or been involved with well over 1,000 site assessments, including Phase I environmental assessments, subsurface investigations, and site remediation, including selection of remedial alternatives for site cleanup. He also is instrumental in obtaining environmental permits and interfacing with regulatory agencies. He was recently appointed as a member of the Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Diego Region.

Johnson has managed or been involved with more than 75 site closures. He has substantial experience managing the planning, organization, mobilization and execution of projects involving subsurface soil and groundwater assessments, leaking underground storage tank (UST) sites with Regional Board lead, DTSC sites, UST remediation, chlorinated solvent investigation and remediation, feasibility studies, and site closures. He has concurrently managed multi-task order teams with rigorous schedules to meet client needs. While working at the EPA, he was given primary responsibility for the development of national indications of ground and surface water quality, as well as wastewater sludge, for the Environmental Results Indicators project. Johnson earned a B.A. in Economics in 1982 and a M.S. degree in Environmental Studies in 1986. He has shared his knowledge by teaching courses and writing a variety of articles.

Robert Kelley, Ph.D., Regenesis
Robert Kelley earned his B.S. in Biology from Virginia Tech in 1980 and advanced to his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Microbiology in 1985. He has spent considerable time in research and field work, and is well qualified for in-situ chemical oxidation, bioremediation; environmental biotechnology; contaminant assessment; remediation; environmental toxicology; feasibility studies; conceptual design and assessment of remediation technologies bench-scale; and field-demonstration of chemical and biological remediation systems. Kelley actively participates in many organizations and is the author of numerous publications and presentations.

Larry Lewis, Executive Vice President, Vanton Pump
Mr. Lewis joined Vanton Pump in 1991. He has 15 years with the company, incorporating a variety of positions and responsibilities. Lewis, presently serving as an executive vice president, has plant operation and system management experience related to the manufacture and application of thermoplastic pumps for use in municipal and industrial odor and pollution control, water and waste treatment, and applications in chemical and other process industries. He has authored technical articles pertaining to material selection and pump and system applications. Additionally, Lewis conducts frequent application seminars for consulting engineers and plant personnel on the uses and advantages of thermoplastic fluid handling systems.

Suthan S. Sutherson, Ph.D., P.E. Senior Vice President and Director of Remediation and Site Evaluation Services for ARCADIS

Suthan Sutherson earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Sri Lanka in 1978. He continued on to a M. Eng. Environmental from the Asian Institute of Technology in 1981 and graduated with his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1986. He is the author or co-author of many books and articles in a variety of publications in the environmental field. Sutherson also holds a number of patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has been involved with over 500 remediation projects in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia. He was one of the pioneers to propagate the use of phytoremediation, particularly phytocovers, to replace RCRA caps for the closure of landfills. His contributions include developing a theoretical framework to evaluate the performance of phytocovers. Currently, he is playing a leading role in developing a cost-effective and technically efficient approach for remediating recalcitrant compounds such as MTBE, 1,4-dioxane, NDMA and explosives such as RDX, HMX and TNT. He has taught at national training seminars sponsored by the NGWA, API and EPA, as well as training programs for many state regulatory agencies.

Mark West, Vice President of Eisenmann Corp.
Mark West earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and his Masters in Business Administration from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. He shares in the strategic direction of company operations and its subsidiary in Mexico. He has worked for Eisenmann for over seven years, and formerly held the position of Division General Manager. Eisenmann is a worldwide supplier of industrial production systems for surface finishing, material handling automation, environmental technology and ceramics firing technology.

Norman S. Wei, Principal and Founder of Environmental Management and Training LLC
Norman Wei has over 29 years of experience as an environmental manager in the manufacturing industry and as a consultant. From 1989 to 1998, he was the senior corporate environmental manager at a Fortune 500 company, where he was responsible for environmental compliance programs at 15 facilities worldwide. He has served on the staff of the U.S.-Canada International Joint Commission. Mr. Wei continues to write a regular column for Pollution Engineering magazine.

John Woodhull, P.E., Manager, ENSR, Environmental Process Engineering.
A chemical and process engineer with over 25 years of experience, John Woodhull is a registered professional engineer in nine states, and holds an Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University, and a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His extensive experience includes designing chemical plants, refineries and wastewater treatment, and other environmental/utility systems for an international engineer-constructor firm. He also manages an environmental process engineering group in the U.K. John Woodhull joined ENSR in 1994.

Richard A Young, Ph.D., R.E.M., P.E., C.S.S.
Our beloved founder, Richard Young is currently the Executive Director of the National Registry of Environmental Professionals. He is a recipient of the Charles Ellet award as the most outstanding engineer of the year, as awarded by the Western Society of Engineers. In addition, Dick has received awards from journalism associations, engineering societies and governmental agencies, including the Environmental Quality Award of the EPA. Young is the founding editor of Pollution Engineering magazine, which he started in 1969. He has served as official representative and pollution control expert of the federal government at technology exchange meetings with foreign governments. Additionally, he has served as environmental advisor and consultant to 14 states, over 12 municipal governments and five federal agencies. Richard Young has served as an adjunct professor of environmental technology at three universities, and has an extensive career in industry where he served as manager of worldwide environmental control for one of the country’s leading multi-national corporations. He has authored several hundred engineering articles dealing with control of industrial and municipal pollution, and is author/editor of 29 reference books on environmental engineering and management.