SC&A prides itself on having one of its senior
managers closely involved with each contract, with
easy access
to the President to assure that the firm
is responsive to our
clients’ needs. SC&A
maintains a core staff with the necessary
expertise
to address the vast majority of project requirements.
In order to maintain competitive pricing and to
provide the highest
quality service possible, we
staff some of our projects with independent
consultants who have niche expertise or supplement
SC&A staff during
peak workloads.
SC&A also believes strongly in teaming with firms
that have
complementary expertise. We have had more than 100 teaming partners over
our 31 years of
operations. We are confident that we can
cost-effectively
compete for any project within our
areas of expertise. SC&A believes
strongly in the
development of project work plans that are endorsed
by our
clients and are adapted as necessary during
the conduct of the project.
Gregory P. Beronja
President & CEO
Mr. Beronja has been the President and CEO
of SC&A since
2008 and was the Chief
Operating Officer from 2002 through 2008.
Prior to joining SC&A, he was a Vice
President for CH2M HILL.
Mr. Beronja has also
held management positions in the Printed
Circuit
Board industry. His areas of
expertise are in environmental management
(including ISO 14001 certification),
compliance and permitting (in particular
associated with RCRA) and site remediation.
In 1980, while working with an EPA
contractor, he developed and started the
RCRA-Superfund Hotline. Mr. Beronja has
passed both the PE and CPA exams. He has an
MBA from George Washington University,
an MS
in Chemical Engineering from Tufts
University, and a BA in Biology from the
University of California, San
Diego.
Sanford C. Cohen
Chairman of the Board
Dr. Cohen founded SC&A in 1981 and was
President and CEO until
2008. A nuclear
engineer, he began his career as a reactor
physicist at
General Atomic, and after moving
to Washington as one of the early
employees
of SAIC in 1972, became interested in
nuclear/radiation regulation
and
environmental impacts. Most of his work has
been for the Federal
government, including
the Environmental Protection Agency, the
Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, and the
Department of Energy and its prime
contractors. He was a Division Manager at
SAIC and a Vice President of a
subsidiary,
JRB Associates. After leaving SAIC, he built
the Washington
Office of Teknekron, Inc., and
eventually managed its government practice.
He has a BS in Science Engineering from
Northwestern University and a PhD
in Nuclear
Engineering from the University of
Michigan.
John Mauro
Sr. Vice President
Dr. Mauro joined SC&A in 1988 where he
serves as a Senior Vice
President, providing
leadership in the radiological consulting
services
offered by SC&A. Dr. Mauro holds
a PhD in Health Physics from New York
University Medical Center and is certified by
the American Board of Health
Physics. Dr.
Mauro’s career has been dedicated to the
protection of workers,
members of the general
public, and the environment from the
potential harmful
effects of ionizing
radiation and radioactive materials. In 2004,
Dr. Mauro was
appointed by the Governor and
ratified by the State Senate as a
Commissioner of
Radiation Protection for the
State of New Jersey, a position that he still
holds.
Prior to joining SC&A, Dr. Mauro
served as a Project Director at Roy F.
Weston, Inc. and as the Director of the
Radiological Assessment and Health Physics
Division of Ebasco Services
Incorporated.
Abe Zeitoun
Sr. Vice President
Dr. Zeitoun is a Senior Vice President and
Program Manager responsible
for SC&A’s
environmental, waste management, and nuclear
programs. He
has almost 40 years of
experience as an environmental science
manager, with
a proven track record in the
management and oversight of multitask
projects
and programs. He holds a PhD in
Environmental Sciences and an MS in Fisheries
from Michigan State University. Also he holds
a Higher Diploma in Oceanography
and a BS in
Chemistry and Zoology from University of
Alexandria. Dr. Zeitoun
has supported
multidisciplinary programs and projects in
waste management,
energy, transportation,
NEPA, and regulatory compliance for DOE, NRC,
EPA,
NASA, international entities, and
electric utilities. He is currently the
Project Manager of multi-task contracts
supporting the regulatory missions of
EPA’s
Office of Indoor Radiation and Air and DOE’s
Office of NEPA Policy and
Compliance.
Additionally, he is spearheading the support
contract with the NRC
Division of Waste
Management and Environmental Protection
focusing on licensing
activities of uranium
recovery and fuel cycle facilities.
Steve Ostrow
Sr. Vice President
Dr. Ostrow has been SC&A’s Senior Vice
President of Advanced Technology
since
joining the company full time in 2006 after
working as a consultant to the
firm since
2002. Prior to that, he worked for many years
for Washington Group
International and its
predecessor architect-engineering companies
in advanced
technology and nuclear areas,
including serving as Manager of Advanced
Technology
and Manager & Chief Engineer
of Nuclear Engineering. He is also an Adjunct
Professor in the Columbia University Applied
Physics & Applied Mathematics
department
and a member of the school’s Medical Physics
Program faculty. His
areas of expertise are
in diverse advanced technologies, where he is
particularly
focused on standoff detection of
explosives, chemical, and nuclear hazards,
and
radiological assessment and engineering.
He has PhD, MS, and BS degrees in Applied
Physics & Nuclear Engineering from
Columbia University and an MBA degree from
New York University.
Deborah Schneider
Manager, Environmental Health and
Communication
Ms. Schneider has been with SC&A since 1994, beginning as a research analyst.
She now manages projects related to environmental health and communication, primarily
for DOE, EPA, and NRC. She is currently managing work related to the implementation of
the National Environmental Policy Act for DOE and NRC. Previously, Ms. Schneider managed
a pool of editors who worked on highly technical documents for the NRC and has overseen a
variety of communications projects for the DOE Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance,
including a quarterly newsletter and annual meetings. She has also managed several EPA
hotlines and the development of outreach materials on public health topics. For EPA’s
Radiological Emergency Response Program, she updated program documentation and developed
an online orientation course for the Radiological Emergency Response Team. Ms. Schneider
has a BA in Foreign Affairs with a minor in Environmental Sciences from the University of
Virginia and a Masters of Public Health degree from the George Washington University.
Amy Marasco Newton
Outside Board Member
Ms. Marasco Newton is President of the nonprofit The Nature Generation and is responsible
for the daily operations of the foundation.
She is an executive management consultant
with nearly 30 years experience providing
business and organizational consulting
services to government agencies, public and
private sector companies, and nonprofit
organizations. Her expertise lies in
environmental programs, education and
outreach, and
affordable housing. With her
late husband Dave Newton, Ms. Marasco Newton
co-founded the
Marasco Newton Group (MNG), a
$50M environmental consulting firm with over
350 employees,
where she managed $80 million
in multiyear federal government contracts.
EPA recognized her
regularly for managing a
high volume of work and consistently
delivering high-quality
consulting services.
In addition to SC&A, Ms. Newton is a
Board Member of The Cadmus Group
and the National Association for Olmsted Parks.
She has also
served on the board for Project Performance
Corporation; Executive Committee
for Habitat
for Humanity of Northern Virginia; on the
board for Habitat for Humanity of
Loudoun
County, Virginia; on the Whittaker
Foundation; and as a Board Member of the
Marasco Newton Group Board of Directors. Ms. Newton holds a Masters degree in
environmental
planning from Colorado State
University and a Bachelors degree in
political science from
Ohio Wesleyan
University.
James O. Edwards
Outside Board Member
Mr. Edwards has been a Director of
SC&A since 2000. In 1998 he left ICF
Kaiser International, where he had been
Chairman and CEO for more than fifteen years,
joining the company as a Partner in a small
consulting company named ICF Incorporated and
having an important role in building the
company from annual revenues of $300,000 per
year to a $1.2 billion publicly traded
company with more than 10,000 employees.
Prior to that he worked in the U.S.
Government at the Office of Management and
Budget
and the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare; before that he was a
Ford Foundation
fellow in Africa working at
the East African Railways and Harbours in
Nairobi, Kenya.
He earned an MBA with High
Distinction, George F. Baker Scholar from
Harvard University
in 1967, and prior to that
a B.S. with Distinction in Industrial
Engineering from
Northwestern University,
ranking first in his major academically and
graduating one year
ahead of his
class.
Thomas Grumbly
Outside Board Member
Mr. Grumbly is VP for Civil Government
Programs of Lockheed Martin
Washington
Operations, where he leads the government
relations group
that has responsibility for
developing and maintaining key customer
relationships with senior civil government
Executive Branch officials,
Congress,
industry executives, and public officials of
state, local and
international governments.
Previously, as VP for Energy &
Environment
of Lockheed Martin IS&GS, he
was responsible for Energy Services practice
and significant portions of the Homeland
Security practice. He has held
leadership
positions in the private sector, with
nonprofit organizations,
and in the Federal
government. For DOE, beginning in 1993 he
served as the
Assistant Secretary for
Environmental Management, responsible for
dealing with
the cold war legacy of special
nuclear material and nuclear waste, and from
1996 to 1997 he served as the Under Secretary,
where he had total responsibility
for the
health, safety and environment functions of
the Department as well as
efforts in nuclear
energy. He holds a B.S. from Cornell
University and a
Masters from the University
of Toronto and the University of California
at
Berkeley, is the author of numerous
articles on public and environmental policy,
and is the recipient of the Secretary of
State Distinguished Honor
Award for his work
in reducing international commerce in nuclear
weapons material.
