Corporate Leadership

Corporate Leadership

Bonnie Longenecker, Founder and Board Chair

Bonnie L. Longenecker is the founder and Board Chair of Longenecker & Associates, Inc. (L&A), and has more than 35 years’ experience in the energy industry. She served in the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) from 1975 to 1982. In this capacity, Ms. Longenecker held executive support positions in the Office of the Assistant Administrator for Nuclear Energy, and the Division of Nuclear Waste Management. Prior to joining ERDA and DOE, Ms. Longenecker held other executive support positions at State Farm Insurance Company headquarters in Bloomington, IL. Ms. Longenecker attended Hagerstown Business College and the Illinois State University.

John Longenecker, Chief Executive Officer

John R. Longenecker, the Chief Executive Officer of L&A, has more than 35 years’ experience in energy and national defense in the areas of mission assurance, project delivery, and independent assessment in various programs including nuclear weapons and non-proliferation, environmental remediation, nuclear reactor development and operations, uranium enrichment, waste management, and advanced technology development and deployment. In December 1992, John was appointed by President Bush to serve as Transition Manager for the United States Enrichment Corporation, a government-owned, for-profit corporation that provides uranium enrichment services to electric utilities throughout the world. From 1983 to 1987, John served in the Reagan administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Uranium Enrichment at the U.S. DOE. Prior to managing the U.S. uranium enrichment enterprise, he held other management positions at DOE and its predecessor agencies.

Martin Schneider, President

Martin Schneider is a recognized leader with more than 20 years of experience in the defense nuclear, national security and energy sectors. Before being named President in 2022, Martin led strategy and business development for L&A through a period of significant corporate growth that saw L&A emerge as one of the leading small businesses in the U.S. DOE and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) enterprise. Martin also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Roy G. Post Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on awarding scholarships for students pursuing careers in the radioactive waste management, environmental remediation or nuclear energy industries.

Christine Gelles, Chief Operating Officer

Christine Gelles has nearly 25 years’ experience in the U.S. DOE. Her core skills include: strategic program planning, policy development and problem solving, project planning, management, budget formulation, execution and review; program management and assessment; comprehensive understanding of environmental laws, regulations and policies, as well as federal budgetary and accounting policy; and extensive knowledge and understanding of the DOE's waste management and nuclear materials management programs.

Keller Staley, Executive Vice President

Keller Staley has over 30 years of experience managing complex, multi-million dollar technical, planning, analysis and management support contracts for a wide range of U.S. DOE and NNSA offices including: the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), the Office of Fossil Energy (FE), the Office of Environmental Management (EM); the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), the Office of Science and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), among others.

James Veres, Chief Financial Officer

James Veres has more than 30 years of Federal contracting experience in leading corporate operations and supporting government clients and currently leads L&A accounting, human resources, and contracts administration activities.

Brian Bielecki, Senior Vice President for Mission and Operational Excellence

Brian Bielecki is a highly experienced leader of engineering, quality and regulatory programs and operations, with demonstrated success developing high performing organizations to deliver multi-site programs and projects, conduct complex applied research, apply and assess comprehensive regulatory programs, provide life-cycle management of nuclear facilities, and execute 24/7 operations for nuclear energy, national security, defense, and environment missions.

Dr. Laurie Judd, Senior Vice President for Operations Support

Laurie Judd is an Internationally experienced, industry-recognized Senior Executive with more than 25 years proven record in: management and technical consulting for government; international technology transfer and collaboration between Government Agencies; sales management, business development and program management in technical services and products to both Federal Government and their contractors; “making market” through advanced positioning of technical concepts and solutions; congressional liaison / government affairs; and the commercialization and implementation of innovative, ‘first-of-a-kind’ technologies.

Jason Hatfield, Senior Vice President for Operations

Jason Hatfield has more than 20 years of experience in complex projects in L&A’s major markets of national security and environmental remediation.  His expertise and experience in key areas like mission assurance, project management, and operations management strengthen L&A's performance and governance of projects across the United States.

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