NorthStar Contracting Group, Inc.

Jeff’s experience prior to NorthStar includes extensive financial and operational leadership roles in both private and public global companies, including Fiserv, Veolia Environment, ManpowerGroup, and S.C. Johnson.

Mr. Adix began his career as a CPA in the Milwaukee office of Arthur Andersen.  He holds an MBA from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and also received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from Drake University, with majors in Corporate Finance, Accounting, and Computer Information Systems.

He and his staff are responsible for all corporate financial management and planning, along with support services to the branch offices, including monitoring the financial performance of all projects, forecasting, financial reporting, payroll processing, treasury management, benefits administration, management information systems, and income tax compliance and planning.

Greg DiCarlo joined Northstar in 2005 and has been General Counsel since 2010. He is responsible for the management  all legal affairs  the company, including contracting, transactional matters and litigation. He and his staff provide daily support to the branch offices for all legal related matters. Before joining Northstar, DiCarlo worked as an engineer...

John Leonard, joined NorthStar in 1987 and has been Chief Operating Officer of NorthStar since 2003.

Leonard oversees all of the branch offices and works directly with regional and branch managers to ensure that proper estimating procedures are utilized for all projects nationwide and for the safety, schedule and successful performance of every job. He is also responsible for maintaining the company’s standards and procedures regarding Client service across the company. Leonard is directly responsible for major projects for national clients and leads the NorthStar emergency response team in the pre-planning and implementation of responses throughout the U.S. He holds NorthStar’s contractor licenses in Hawaii, California, Nevada, Florida and Arizona.

Leonard joined NorthStar in 1987 as a member of the special projects division and later joined the company’s New York metropolitan operation as an estimator. He was promoted to vice president and branch manager in 1992 and president of the New York/New Jersey office in 1993. Leonard also served seven years as regional manager of the western United States where he had oversight of eight branches. Prior to joining NorthStar, Leonard served in the management trainee program of a national construction company.

John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and management information systems from Syracuse University.

Scott E. State, P.E., joined NorthStar in 2010 as Chief Executive Officer, responsible for leading the organization and expanding its business into new services areas and geographies. Mr. State leads all major corporate and business development efforts, including NorthStar’s strategic nuclear decommissioning activities.

A nuclear engineer by education, State is well-known in the industry for his outstanding technical skills and executive management background with large, complex organizations. He has extensive experience in development and financial advisory projects for the military, nuclear and private industry.

Before joining NorthStar, State worked as a consultant on several development and financial advisory projects, including a $120 million remediation of a 9,000-acre former military facility, technical program management consulting, and executive level support focused on cleaning up former nuclear weapons and nuclear power plant sites. He has also served as Chairman and CEO of MACTEC, Inc., a leader in engineering, environmental and construction services worldwide with 80 locations, which he helped grow into an industry leader. He has successfully completed projects in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia.

State holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Nuclear Engineering and a master’s degree in Engineering Management, and is a licensed Nuclear Engineer. He formerly held an NRC Reactor Operators license, DOE “Q” clearance, and DoD Top Secret clearance.

 Gary Thibodeaux has been Northstar’s director of health and safety since 2002. He has more than 20 years of experience in the health and safety industry and is based in the Orange, Texas, office. He supervises four regional health and safety managers and oversees safety and compliance at all the regional branch offices. He and his staff provide technical assistance to all managers and operations personnel and develop and implement safety training programs. Thibodeaux represents Northstar at meetings and hearings with regulatory agencies. He is certified to conduct training in OSHA’s Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard (HAZWOPER) and the OSHA Outreach Program. He is also certified as an Asbestos Project Designer.