The head of the nuclear and environment business unit for Maryland-based Amentum has been deemed a public sector “leader to watch” in the during 2020, by a website for executives.
Mark Whitney, executive vice president and general manager for Amentum’s Nuclear & Environment Strategic Business Unit, was featured in an Aug. 19 article by WashingtonExec.com.
WashingtonExec is a private membership organization founded in 2011 to provide information and networking relationships with managers around Washington, D.C. , and its suburbs in Maryland, and Virginia, according to its website.
“Whitney’s focus is solving clients’ problems to safely achieve their missions through effective use of the best talent in the industry and applying innovative approaches to complex challenges,” according to the article. That places him among 30 public-sector executives to watch, it says.
Amentum was formed in January when two New York-based investment firms bought the Management Services business of Los Angeles-based AECOM. The business unit headed by Whitney is worth roughly $1 billion and has about 10,000 employees to service government contracts including those for the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management and the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration.
Amentum leads a joint venture that manages DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. It also heads contractor teams in charge of radioactive waste management at the Hanford Site in Washington state and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, along with decontamination and decommissioning at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee.
Whitney joined AECOM in October 2016 after two-and-a-half years in top jobs at DOE nuclear remediation office, including as acting assistant secretary for environmental management, according to his LinkedIn profile. Overall, Whitney held multiple management jobs at DOE, EM, and the NNSA dating to February 2005. Before that he worked in the private sector as a consultant.
