Careers

Senior Management

E. Wayne Holden

President and Chief Executive Officer

E. Wayne Holden, PhD, became RTI International's fourth president in 2012. Dr. Holden is a distinguished researcher and clinical psychologist with more than 27 years of professional experience. He joined RTI as executive vice president of Social and Statistical Sciences in 2005, overseeing the organization's largest unit. Prior to joining RTI, he served as vice president, senior vice president and ultimately president of the research company ORC Macro. Before joining ORC Macro in 1998, he had a successful career in academia serving more than 10 years in a variety of roles in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland's School of Medicine, including as director of pediatric psychology and as a tenured associate professor. Since 2006, he has held an appointment as an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Holden is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and has authored more than 130 articles, books, or book chapters on various topics in clinical child/pediatric psychology and health services research. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for NC Methodist Home for Children; and the Institute for the Ages in Sarasota, Fla. He is also on the Board of Advisors for the Emily Krzyzewksi Center, and he is an elected trustee for the Triangle University Center for Advanced Studies, Inc.

James J. Gibson

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Jim Gibson became executive vice president and chief financial officer at RTI in 2000. He began his finance career at Ernst & Ernst in 1976 in New Jersey. In 1980, he joined Hughes Aircraft Company in Southern California holding a number of financial-related positions of increasing responsibility. In 1985, he joined the corporate office of Rockwell International Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he held various executive level positions including assistant corporate controller. Gibson is a licensed attorney with an undergraduate BS degree from State College of New Jersey-Ramapo, an MBA from The University of Southern California, and JD degree from Duquesne University. In addition to his active participation in many professional associations, he is a member of the board of directors of Nextreme Thermal Solutions and an advisory board member of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

Tim J. Gabel

Executive Vice President, Social, Statistical, and Environmental Sciences

Tim J. Gabel, is the executive vice president of Social, Statistical, and Environmental Sciences (SSES). SSES, the largest of RTI’s business units with annual revenue in excess of $370M and more than 1400 professional staff, conducts a variety of research, development and technical assistance projects in multiple domains. Most of the SSES portfolio involves large-scale data collection and management, with an emphasis on complex methodological, statistical, and epidemiological approaches to important public policy issues in health, environment, education, economics, public policy, and social welfare. Mr. Gabel, a long-term RTI employee with technical training in both statistics and computer science, has served in a variety of leadership roles during his career, including the head of the Research Computing Division and the vice president for Survey and Computing Sciences. Mr. Gabel helped pioneer RTI’s early efforts to conceptualize and develop Internet applications for research activities and has extensive experience directing data collection and data processing activities for scientific research studies. More recently, he led the initiative to develop a comprehensive international expansion strategy for SSES and oversaw the newly created Center for the Advancement of Health IT. He has a BS from the University of Wyoming and an MBA from Duke University.

Jennie Hunter-Cevera

Executive Vice President, Discovery and Analytical Sciences, Government Affairs, and Corporate Development

Jennie Hunter-Cevera, PhD, joined RTI International July 1, 2009, as executive vice president of Discovery and Analytical Sciences. She has more than 22 years of experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Before joining RTI, Hunter-Cevera was president of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute and head of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology in 1995, received the Society of Industrial Microbiology (SIM) Charles Porter Award in 1996, was elected a SIM Fellow in 1997, and was named the Nath Lecturer at West Virginia University in 1999. She is the 2004 recipient of the American Society for Microbiology Porter Award for achievement in biodiversity research and was elected an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow in 2007. Hunter-Cevera holds five patents, has 15 pending patents, and currently serves on the editorial board for International Microbiology and the advisory board for the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Barbara Kennedy

Vice President, Global Health

Barbara Kennedy was named vice president of the Global Health Group in 2011. She has more than 30 years of experience in the strategic design and management of international development programs. Ms. Kennedy has senior management skills in public private partnerships and alliance building, capacity development of local institutions and national programs, health and human rights, conservation of natural resources, building civil societies through more participatory local government planning, and health care planning in developing countries. She has strong public health leadership skills and expertise in reproductive health and family planning, health care reform, decentralization, and adolescent and youth programs. Ms. Kennedy has extensive experience in the design, management, and evaluation of international public health programs in over 25 countries, as well as special skills in team building, participatory strategic planning and priority setting, donor leveraging, and staff development.

Lon E. Maggart

Executive Vice President, International Development

Lon "Bert" Maggart was named executive vice president of the International Development Group in 2008. In his previous positions at RTI, he has led corporate operations and served as senior vice president and chief of staff, special assistant to the president, interim senior vice president of the Science and Engineering Group, and director of the Center for Semiconductor Research. He also served as program director for advanced learning environments, responsible for the development of virtual reality projects, simulators, and conceptual work on advanced technology. Before joining RTI in 1996, Maggart served a 30-year military career in the U.S. Army, retiring as a major general. His assignments included tours as chief of staff for the 1st Infantry Division, brigade commander during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, deputy chief of staff for doctrine at Fort Monroe, Va.; deputy commanding general at Fort Knox, Ky.; and commanding general of Fort Knox.

Satinder K. Sethi

Executive Vice President, Operations

Satinder Sethi, PhD, was named executive vice president of Operations in January 2010. He became executive vice president of the Science and Engineering Group in 2003 after serving for a year as RTI’s senior vice president of Chemistry and Life Sciences. In 2009, after the reorganization of the Science and Engineering Group, he assumed a lead role in special RTI projects that included business analysis, cross-institute research teams, and university collaborations. Sethi completed his PhD and postdoctoral fellowship, and then signed with Baxter International in 1983 as a senior research scientist. He joined Glaxo (now known as GlaxoSmithKline) in 1987 and held various positions during his 15-year tenure with the company, rising from a principal research scientist to director and then vice president of analytical sciences, to vice president of pharmaceutical development for the company’s North America unit, to vice president of group development operations in RTP.

Allen W. Mangel

Executive Vice President, RTI Health Solutions

Allen Mangel, MD, PhD, is executive vice president of RTI Health Solutions, a business unit of RTI International. After obtaining an MD from the Georgetown University School of Medicine, he did his internship, residency, and fellowship in gastroenterology at Duke University Medical Center. He later joined the faculty at Duke in the department of medicine. In 1995, Mangel joined GlaxoSmithKline and held various posts during his 6 years at the company. He also served as an executive director at Quintiles Inc. and as vice president of research and development at Salix Pharmaceuticals before joining RTI.

G. Edward Story

Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary

Edward "Eddie" Story was named senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary in 2008. In his previous positions at RTI, he served as assistant general counsel and assistant corporate secretary as well as a contracting officer. Before joining RTI in 1990, Story was a private practice attorney in Wilmington, N.C. Story earned a bachelor's degree at Wake Forest University and a Juris Doctorate from Campbell University School of Law. He is a member of various professional associations, including the Association of Corporate Counsel and the North Carolina and Wake County Bar Associations.

James Trainham

Vice President, Strategic Energy Initiatives

James "Jim" Trainham, PhD, was named vice president of Strategic Energy Initiatives in 2010. Prior to joining RTI, Trainham directed research and development, engineering design and scale-up for Sundrop Fuels, Inc. as senior vice president, served as vice president of Science and Technology at PPG Industries for 4 years and had a 25 year career at the DuPont Company where his last position was CTO of Invista a wholly owned subsidiary before it was sold in 2004. Trainham was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997. In 2008, he was selected as "One of the 100 Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era" by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Trainham currently serves on a number of university advisory boards, including the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.

Martha Roberts

Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Martha Roberts was promoted to senior vice president in May 2011. She served for a year as unit VP and chief Human Resources officer, leading the Human Resources team and, as a member of RTI's Executive Leadership Team, advising on HR policies, practices, and daily interactions. Roberts has more than 30 years of experience in a variety of positions at RTI, including more than 20 years managing support staff for research operations and administration. During the past 16 years, she has led a variety of Human Resources programs, efforts, and initiatives. Roberts understands and appreciates that the quality of our people is what drives RTI's business. She is a graduate of Western Carolina University with a BS in social and political science, and received her senior professional human resources certification in 2006

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