FRED ELLERBUSCH
Phone: 732 563 4944 Fax: 732 563 9741 Cell: 732 261 4804
e-mail: fred@systemsthink.com

Fred Ellerbusch is the President and Founder of SYSTEMSTHINK, LLC, a management consultancy focused on Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) performance and systems.  With more than 25 years of experience in engineering, regulatory compliance, policy research, management systems, and corporate environmental affairs, health, safety, and security, Dr. Ellerbusch draws from a rich experience base that includes government, consulting, academe, and industrial sectors to serve clients.   He believes that EHS excellence is achievable and sustainable when each engagement is philosophically based on four strategic components: integration of EHS and organizational objectives for organizational sustainability; risk based processes as inputs for priority setting and decision making; systems thinking to address complexity, uncertainty, and diversity; fostering Learning Communities for growth, innovation, and knowledge management.

Dr. Ellerbusch is a faculty member at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) School of Public Health and an active member of the curriculum development team of the Environmental Health track, where he teaches Environmental Health and Urban Environmental Health for the MPH program in Newark.  The School of Public Health is a collaboration of UMDNJ, Rutgers University and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). At NJIT, he served as the Director of Technology Transfer and Training at the Center of Environmental Engineering and Science. He was formerly a member of the faculty of the College of Science and Liberal Arts of NJIT and also served as an Adjunct faculty member within Newark College of Engineering’s Department of Chemical Engineering, and seminar leader through the Continuing Education Division training more than 500 industry and government professionals over a 13-year period.  He was a Becton-Dickinson Research Associate at the NJIT Center for Appropriate Technology in Health where his research interests were focused on applying appropriate technology to improve health outcomes. He also served as a Co-principal investigator on a project that provided technical assistance to Newark’s Ironbound community. He has conducted policy-related research as a Senior Research Fellow of the National Environmental Policy Institute in Washington, DC, where he also co-chaired the Unified Environmental Law Sector that produced the report entitled "Integrating Environmental Policy - A Blueprint for 21^st Century Environmentalism."  

Prior to launching SYSTEMSTHINK, LLC Dr. Ellerbusch held several directorships at Rhone-Poulenc, Inc. and was most recently the Corporate Director of Health, Safety and Environment for North America. Along with policy, governance, and site remediation responsibilities, he was a member of many multi-national teams that developed, for example, Rhone-Poulenc Group worldwide EHS performance metrics and risk based decision tools and measures, ISO 14000 compliant management systems, and regulatory compliance systems. Before joining Rhone-Poulenc, he led the corporate environmental program at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company from its inception, and for the Bristol-Myers Products Division managed regulatory compliance and governmental affairs, and served as the Director of Safety, Security and Environmental Affairs. Dr. Ellerbusch has also been employed in research capacities at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development and The MITRE Corporation. He continues to be an active peer reviewer for U.S. EPA’s Office of Research and Development.

Dr. Ellerbusch has served on a multitude of professional and industrial committees, community advisory boards and was appointed by the Governor to the New Jersey Commission on Environmental Education in 2000. He has lectured in the United States and Europe, published, including several books, and is a member of numerous professional societies including the New York Academy of Sciences, Society for Risk Analysis, American Public Health Association, American Association of University Professors, Environmental Law Institute, Water Environment Federation, National Environmental Training Association, American Academy of Environmental Engineers, Academy of Hazardous Materials Managers, TAU BETA Pi, and SIGMA XI. During his industrial tenure he was active in the American Industrial Health Council’s Science Policy Committee, the American Chemistry Council’s International Affairs and Environmental Management Committees, the World Environment Center, the Hazardous Substance Management Research Center, the Corporate Environmental, Health & Safety Management Roundtable, and several Chambers of Commerce.

Dr. Ellerbusch is a Professional Engineer in the State of New Jersey, a Diplomat of the American Academy of Environmental Engineering, a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, a Certified Hazard Control Manager, and a currently inactive status state Legislative Agent. He received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and Master of Science in Environmental Engineering degrees from NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering, and the Master of Public Health (in Environmental and Occupational Health) from the UMDNJ School of Public Health at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He received the Ph.D. in Public Health through the School of Public Health at UMDNJ-RWJMS with research focused on brownfields remediation and redevelopment, particularly on the question of protectiveness of human health.