Leketa

Anthony F. (Tony) Leketa is retired executive vice president, Parsons Government Services. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a master’s in civil engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College.

After graduating from WPI, Tony was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  In 1980 he left active duty and joined the Army Reserve; he retired with the rank of colonel after 30 years of distinguished military service.  After leaving active duty he also became a Government civilian rising to the Senior Executive Service (SES) from which he retired in 2005.  He joined Parsons in 2005 as a vice president, became a senior vice president and division manager, and was promoted to president, Parsons Water and Infrastructure Group, in 2010.  He retired from Parsons as an executive vice president in 2017. His career in construction management includes: his service in the Corps (active and reserve duty beginning in 1969), where he served in Germany, South Korea, and the U.S.; service as a civilian employee of the Corps where he managed the program to construct Fort Drum in upstate New York, renovate the Pentagon and rebuild the infrastructure of Iraq; and Parsons where he had executive level responsibility for a $2.3B one-of-a-kind Salt Waste Processing Facility for the Department of Energy at the Savannah River Site and two Chemical Demilitarization Facilities.

His areas of expertise include program and construction management, water and wastewater treatment, conveyance, tunneling, pumps, storage, and ecosystem restoration. He is widely experienced in international operations as well as federal energy and defense programs. He is a Fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a distinguished Fellow in the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), a past president of SAME, and has received numerous military and civilian awards.  In 2019 he was recognized by WPI with the Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for outstanding professional achievement.

He has five children, eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.  He hopes to retire to Florida in the near future.