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Victoria F. Haynes

President and Chief Executive Officer

Victoria Franchetti Haynes, PhD, became RTI International’s third president in 1999. Her career spans 33 years of technology leadership, management, and new business development. She began her career at Monsanto Company in 1977, and held a number of senior management positions, including director of technology in the company’s plastics division until 1992. Prior to joining RTI, she worked for seven years at Goodrich Corporation as vice president of research and development and later as chief technical officer and vice president of the company’s advanced technology group. Haynes currently serves as a corporate board member for Archer Daniels Midland Company; Nucor Corporation; PPG Industries, Inc.; and Ziptronix, 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.

E. Wayne Holden

Executive Vice President, Social, Statistical, and Environmental Sciences

E. Wayne Holden, PhD, is executive vice president of Social, Statistical and Environmental Sciences (SSES). In this capacity, he oversees the largest unit at RTI with annual revenues of approximately $340 million and 1,400 employees. SSES conducts projects that involve large-scale data collection and management with an emphasis on applying complex methodological, statistical, and epidemiological approaches to important public policy issues in health, environment, education, economics, public policy, and social welfare. He received his Ph.D. in clinical/community psychology from the University of South Carolina. He also completed training in biostatistics, epidemiology, and public health at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. He holds an appointment as a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Holden has authored more than 130 articles, books, or book chapters on various topics in health services research. He joined RTI in 2005 following seven years at ORC Macro, a private, for-profit research consulting firm. He was president of ORC Macro from 2003 to 2005 and a senior vice president at Opinion Research Corporation.

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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