Senior Management

Victoria F. Haynes

President and Chief Executive Officer

Victoria Franchetti Haynes, Ph.D., became RTI International’s third president in 1999. Her career spans 31 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 CPA and licensed attorney, with an undergraduate B.S. degree from State College of New Jersey-Ramapo, an M.B.A. from The University of Southern California, and J.D. 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 and Statistical Sciences

E. Wayne Holden, Ph.D., a distinguished researcher and clinical psychologist with 20 years of experience, joined RTI International Nov. 1, 2005, as executive vice president of Social and Statistical Sciences. Holden previously served as president of the research company ORC Macro. Before joining ORC Macro, Holden served more than 10 years in a variety of roles at the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine, including director of pediatric psychology and project director of the Families in Transition program, in addition to being a tenured associate professor. During that period, Holden also maintained a private clinical pediatric psychology practice. Since 1999, he has held an appointment as clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University’s School of Medicine. Holden is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and has authored more than 100 journal articles and 16 books or book chapters on various topics in clinical child/pediatric psychology and health services research.

Lon E. Maggart

Executive Vice President, International Development Group

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, Science and Engineering Group

Satinder Sethi, Ph.D., 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. He completed his Ph.D. 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

Senior Vice President, RTI Health Solutions

Allen Mangel, M.D., Ph.D., is senior vice president of RTI Health Solutions, a business unit of RTI International. After obtaining an M.D. 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.

Lorena K. Clark

Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Affairs

Lorena Clark joined RTI International as senior vice president of Human Resources in March 2006. In October 2006, she was named senior vice president of Human Resources and Corporate Affairs. She has more than 25 years of human resources and business management experience with Fortune 500 companies such as PepsiCo, BFGoodrich, Campbell Soup Company, General Dynamics, and GenCorp’s Automotive Segment. She established Pinnacle Leadership Consulting in 1995 and has been its managing partner for the past 10 years, providing consulting services to such organizations as Hughes/General Motors in Europe, Nationwide, the Defense Finance Accounting Service (DFAS), First Energy, and QWest. She has provided consulting services in the areas of talent management assessment and human resources strategic business planning to commercial, not-for-profit, and government agencies both domestically and globally. Before establishing her consulting firm, she was vice president of Human Resources for GenCorp's Automotive Segment. Clark has also served on the board of the Human Resource Planning Society and the board of Visitors for Hiram College in Ohio.

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.