Management
Tom Colatosti – Chairman & CEO
Thomas (Tom) J. Colatosti is Chairman and CEO of Commodore Applied Technologies, a public company that provides environmental consulting services and patented remediation technologies designed to treat hazardous materials from nuclear waste and chemical sources.
Colatosti is also President and Chief Executive Officer of American Security Ventures, a firm he founded that provides strategic management services and capital resources to emerging and developing companies in the biometric and physical/cyber homeland security industries. ASV has raised more than $250 million in debt and equity financing.
Colatosti serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of BIO-Key International, Inc., a public company that develops advanced biometric finger identification and wireless mobile technologies for public safety and law enforcement applications.
Colatosti was a Director and President of Good Harbor Partners Acquisition Corp., a publically traded Special Purpose Acquisition Company. He has also serves or has served on a number of corporate boards including AssureTec, BioNetX, Enginivity, iCache, Ipswitch Opticon and , Saflink
Prior to founding American Security Ventures, Colatosti was President and Chief Executive Officer of Viisage Technology, Inc., a Nasdaq listed company that provides biometric face-recognition technology and highly secure identification documents and systems. During his leadership of Viisage face recognition gained national and international acceptance with security deployments at airports and at Super Bowl XXXV. Viisage’s market value increased from $5 million to more that $300 million during his tenure as CEO.
As an industry expert, he has frequently appeared in major media outlets such as the Today Show, CBS, CNN, TIME, USN&WR, New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Additionally he has presented at the White House, Congressional Committees and before other Federal and State Law Enforcement Agencies.
For more than 20 years, Colatosti held a number of senior finance and executive positions at Digital Equipment Corporation (now HP Corporation). He was CFO of the company’s Canadian subsidiary and $6 billion US field operations. As Vice President of the company’s billion dollar, 5000-employee Government Systems Group, he was responsible for all products and services to the federal government, aerospace, electronics and manufacturing industries.
Colatosti served the First Infantry Division in Vietnam veteran and was decorated with the Bronze Star Medal, Army Commendation Medal and Purple Heart.
He received a B.S. and an M.B.A. from Suffolk University.
Walt Foutz, VP Business Development
Walt Foutz has nearly 30 years of professional experience in geological, hydrogeological, and environmental consulting and contract management as a contractor at Department of Energy and Department of Defense environmental management sites.
A geologist, Foutz was appointed Vice President of Operations of Commodore Advanced Sciences in 2005 and has had responsibility for all Commodore’s environmental services contracts since 2000. The Environmental Monitoring Services business unit provides environmental monitoring of cleanup and remediation of hazardous waste sites, primarily on U.S. Department of Energy footprints. His most recent program management experience is at the Oak Ridge, Tennessee DOE sites and formerly at the Rocky Flats DOE site near Boulder, Colorado. He is also responsible for business development of all Commodore’s services including Waste Management Services (treatment of hazardous and mixed radioactive waste), and Biological Monitoring Services that includes a benthic laboratory and provides habitat assessments.
Previously, Foutz served as Commodore’s Western Regional Manager with corporate and management responsibilities. During the 1990s for MDM Services Corp. and Lamb Associates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Walt conducted technical work and managed environmental services task-order contracts at Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico National Guard, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and other clients. During the 1980s, Foutz performed geological supervision on site characterization projects at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas; Fallon Naval Air Station, Nevada; Kansas City DOE Plant, Arizona Air National Guard Base, Tucson; US Army Kwajelein Atoll, Marshall Islands, and UMTRA/FUSRAP sites. For five years before that, Walt was a consulting wellsite geologist in the oil and gas industry in the Rocky Mountain region.
Walt received his B.S. in Geology from Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981.
Mark Selecman – VP, Environmental Programs
Mark Selecman has nearly 23 years of professional experience as a Professional Geologist in environmental consulting, program management and field operations for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) and in the private sector.
Selecman serves as Commodore Advanced Science’s Environmental Program Manager for Oak Ridge operations as well as the Project Manager for the Environmental Sampling Activities contract with Bechtel Jacobs Corporation (BJC) under contract with the DOE. The Environmental Sampling Activities contract performs all types of environmental sampling and monitoring at ETTP, ORNL, Y-12 and offsite from the DOE footprint. He is responsible for all daily operations and manages a team of 23 scientists and technicians.
Prior to joining Commodore in 2004, Selecman served as Project Manager for MDM Services Corp managing the Environmental Sampling Services contract for BJC at the DOE’s ORR. In the 1990’s Selecman served as Field Operations Manager and Field Geologist on the Groundwater Characterization Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for CDM Federal Programs. He has performed environmental assessments and site characterizations on underground storage tanks in regions 1 and 4 for the State of Tennessee’s Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program as a Geologist for PEER Consultants.
Mark received a B.S. in Geology from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, TN in 1983.
Jon Rogers – Director, SET Technology
Jon Rogers is an accomplished environmental professional with 22 years of experience in the construction and on-site environmental assessment and remediation arenas. He is intimately familiar with Commodore’s patented technologies for treatment and disposal of difficult waste streams regulated by RCRA and TSCA. Mr. Rogers has worked closely with federal, state, and local regulators as well as the U. S. Departments of Defense and Energy at several legacy and national security sites across the United States, as well as under subcontract with major government contractors.
Rogers has first-hand experience with data collection and compilation, project management, records management, and regulatory reporting including assembling required information for environmental permitting. Mr. Rogers has worked at several DOE legacy sites, including the Weldon Spring Site in Missouri and the Oak Ridge sites in Tennessee, as well as many commercial waste treatment and disposal sites including Energy Solutions, Waste Control Specialists, and US Ecology. His duties have included skillfully interfacing with customers, contractors, laboratories, regulators, and those employees reporting to him in dozens of projects that he has managed in fourteen states.
Jon has managed Commodore’s patented Solvated Electron Technology for the past 10 years. He has developed this process from bench scale to commercial applications across the United States, resulting in a technology that is the only non-thermal alternative to incineration for many waste streams. He is also an experienced expert in handling elemental sodium and anhydrous ammonia, the two primary components of the solvated electron solution used in Commodore’s organic waste treatment process.