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.