09.22.2008 | GRA Announces a Management Change at Its Columbia, Maryland Branch

Dr. Thomas J. Gleason, who founded Gleason Research Associates, Inc. twenty-six years ago, in 1982, is stepping down from his current position as Vice President and Director of Maryland Operations.  Dr. Gleason, who will be sixty-seven in October, is looking forward to spending more time with his family, which now includes his first grandchild, and to a more moderate work schedule.  It is his intention to continue working in a senior technical capacity at GRA for many years to come.  The change is effective on 1 October 2008.

 Dr. Gleason will be succeeded by Dr. Murry D. Bentley, who will become Vice President for Mathematical and Physics-Based Modeling and Simulation and Director of Maryland Operations as he enters his thirteenth year with GRA.  Like Dr. Gleason, he earned his Ph.D. in physics (atomic theory) at The Johns Hopkins University.  Over the next four years he held research positions at Johns Hopkins University, Vanderbilt University, and the Universiteit van Amsterdam, in The Netherlands, authoring and co-authoring seven refereed publications, including four single-author papers, and one non-refereed review article. 

During his two years of research in Holland he also achieved fluency in Dutch.  After returning to Baltimore he held adjunct faculty positions in physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, Loyola College in Maryland, and Morgan State University.  In October 1996 he left academia to join the Columbia office of GRA, where he has worked mainly in modeling and simulation, addressing as a specialty the mathematically challenging aspects of modeling and of related problems.