Board of Directors
John Claussen
John Claussen joined the Cadmus board of directors in 2007 as its third independent director. Prior to joining the board, Mr.Claussen was President of TRC Environmental Corporation and Chief Environmental Counsel and Manager-Remediation Programs at General Electric Company. He brings a wealth of experience in environmental law, policy and management. At TRC, Mr. Claussen led a team that tripled net service revenue with above-industry-average profitability during a seven-year period. The growth was largely organic, with the company achieving national leadership in multiple service sectors including energy permitting, air consulting, and fixed-price liability transfers for contaminated sites. During that period, Mr. Claussen served as executive contact for major private and public sector clients. During his career at GE, Mr. Claussen managed over $1 billion in remediation and tort liabilities, developed innovative mechanisms to facilitate numerous acquisitions while reducing risk, planned and implemented cutting-edge compliance and environmental management systems, and led regulatory and legislative initiatives on key environmental policy issues. Mr. Claussen is currently a vice president at CH2MHill and Vice-Chair and an executive officer of the Environmental Law Institute. He has served in leadership roles at a diverse group of organizations focused on environmental issue including the Conference Board Council of Chief EHS Officers, the American Bar Association Section on Environment, Energy and Resources, and The Nature Conservancy. Mr.Claussen holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a juris doctor degree from Albany Law School.
Gene Fax
A co-founder of Cadmus, Gene Fax has been a managing director, and since 2000 he has been chairman of the board of directors. He also is the company’s quality control officer.
Mr. Fax managed the first of his more than 100 projects for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 and has directed tasks for virtually every EPA program office. Since 1975, he has managed 10 major mission support contracts for federal regulatory agencies—7 for EPA and all as prime contractor—and 6 subcontracts with firms that had prime contracts with EPA.
An expert in drinking water security, Mr. Fax contributed to the Sector-Specific Plan for Water and Wastewater, studied the vulnerabilities of water-related services and other critical infrastructure, and analyzed the public health and security benefits of over 70 water security measures. His wide-ranging project experience includes the development of drinking water and other EPA regulations, water pollution control, hazardous waste, training, and risk evaluation and communication.
Before co-founding Cadmus, Mr. Fax was deputy manager of the economics and environment area at Abt Associates, Inc. He also served as a senior engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
Gene Fax holds a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also pursued graduate studies in ocean engineering. He is a member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society and Pi Tau Sigma, the International Mechanical Engineering Honor Society.
Ralph Jones, Ph.D.
Managing Director Ralph Jones, Ph.D., co-founded Cadmus in 1983, served as president and chief executive officer as well as managing director, and today heads our efforts to market consulting services to the federal government.
Dr. Jones is perhaps best known as an expert in federal and state drinking water programs and their operations, the functioning of drinking water systems and the administrative challenges they face, and protecting public health from waterborne contaminants. His primary client for more than 20 years has been the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, and its predecessors. Ralph also has worked on issues related to Class I, II and V Underground Injection Control wells and source water protection. And he has extensively researched safe drinking water best practices in all 50 states, the United Kingdom, 1 Canadian province, and 3 Australian states.
In recent years, Dr. Jones has focused more on asset management and financing options for water and wastewater infrastructure. This change in emphasis led to his increased involvement in water conservation and water reuse, since integrated water management plans may reduce the scope of infrastructure investment. Dr. Jones’s interest in asset management also helps him meet his responsibilities as a local elected official addressing the management issues that face medium-sized water and wastewater systems.
Dr. Jones has more than 40 years’ experience managing research and program support contracts for clients at the federal, state, and local levels. Before co-founding Cadmus, he worked at Abt Associates Inc., Contract Research Corporation, and Westat. He also was an instructor and assistant professor at Harvard University, and from 1968 to 1976 was a research associate at the Joint Center for Urban Studies of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ralph Jones earned his doctorate in political science from Harvard University, specializing in state and local government. He also holds a bachelor’s in political science, summa cum laude, from DePauw University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of the American Water Works Association (AWWA), Awwa Research Foundation, Water Environment Research Foundation, WateReuse Association, and the WateReuse Research Foundation.
Ian Kline
Ian Kline is President and CEO of The Cadmus Group, Inc. During his first year as president, he developed and has since led an aggressive growth strategy aimed at doubling the size of the firm in 5 years while improving profitability. In May 2008, he led the acquisition of energy services firm Quantec LLC, the largest acquisition in Cadmus’s history. Mr. Kline is a leader in providing strategic and technical advice to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, state governments, and commercial clients. Much of his consulting work concerns developing and implementing innovative solutions that help governments and the private sector better address public health and environmental issues. Mr. Kline joined Cadmus 1995, was named a principal in 1999 and a vice president in 2000. As a vice president, he led two of Cadmus’s technical operating groups. He became president in 2005 and chief executive officer in 2007.
Ian Kline holds an M.P.P. in environmental policy and management from the University of Southern California and an A.B. from Cornell University. He also is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s program for management development, a comprehensive executive leadership program. Mr. Kline serves on the advisory committee of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Ranganath Nayak, Ph.D
Ranganath Nayak, Ph.D., brings over 24 years of senior-level experience in technology and management consulting to the Cadmus Board. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of the Cytel Software Corporation, which develops statistical software for clinical trials and other biomedical applications. Earlier he was Chairman and CEO of Auripay Inc., a start-up software company that produced products to enhance consumer security in internet shopping. Prior to that, he was Vice President of The Boston Consulting Group, where he did extensive business development work in India, as well as working with US clients such as Gillette and Ford Motor Company. For two decades before that, he worked at Arthur D. Little, Inc., building businesses in transportation, operations management, and technology and innovation management. Dr. Nayak developed ADL’s very successful High Performance Business offering, helping clients connect together its stakeholders, strategy, processes, resources, organizational factors and metrics. He also led the effort to develop the company’s services in organizational learning and oversaw the ADL School of Management. Dr. Nayak is the co-author of Product Juggernauts: How Companies Mobilize to Generate a Stream of Market Winners, a Harvard Business School book on managing product development, and principal author of Breakthroughs!, a best-selling study of hugely successful commercial innovations such as the microwave oven, Federal Express, the videocassette recorder, the Compact Disc, Post It notes, the ulcer drug Tagamet, the CAT scanner, and the Toyota Production System. In addition to the Cadmus Board, Dr. Nayak serves on the boards of the Graustein Memorial Fund and Cultural Survival. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.
Amy Marasco Newton
Amy Marasco Newton currently serves as the President of the Newton Marasco Foundation 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. Ms. Marasco Newton co-founded, with her husband Dave Newton, the Marasco Newton Group (MNG), a $50M environmental consulting firm with over 350 employees. During her tenure, Ms. Newton managed $80 million in multiyear federal government contracts. EPA contracts and program offices recognized her regularly for managing a high volume of work and consistently delivering high quality consulting services. In addition to her duties as CEO and manager of high-profile projects, she led multiple management studies, facilitated executive strategic planning retreats and coached clients on innovative organizational initiatives. Ms. Newton currently serves as a Board Member of Sanford Cohen and Associates and The Cadmus Group. She 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.