Kevin R. Niewoehner
President & CEO
Institute for Scientific Research, Inc.

Kevin R. Niewoehner is president and chief executive officer of the Institute for the Scientific Research, Inc. in Fairmont, West Virginia.

Niewoehner attended West Virginia University, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. He showed his leadership qualities early by being elected president of WVU's student branch of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 1981, he went from school to the aerospace industry, where he worked as an electrical engineer for E-Systems in Falls Church, Virginia. There, he designed and developed various systems for remotely piloted vehicles, as well as for small phased array antennas. Niewoehner's career quickly advanced at the System Planning Corporation, where he was named principal research engineer at a young age. In this position, he continued his career as the lead engineer on several multi-band radar system deployments. He was soon named principal engineer at another company - only to move on rapidly to Ford Aerospace, where his talents as a strategist and manager began to emerge.

In 1990, Niewoehner joined NASA at its Washington, D.C. headquarters. For almost a decade, he steadily rose through the space agency ranks, receiving several awards, culminating with NASA's prestigious Exceptional Service Medal. He also earned an MBA with honors from George Mason University while at NASA. Niewoehner put his NASA career on hold in early 1999, however, to take on the unprecedented challenge to build and run the Institute for Scientific Research, Inc.

As ISR's president and chief executive officer, he is a member of and reports to a dynamic and powerful board of directors, while directing the daily operations of a growing staff of scientists, engineers, mathematicians and support staff.

Niewoehner is married to the former Patti Zacharias of St. Clair, Michigan. The couple has one son, Zachary, who is five years old. They reside in Fairmont, West Virginia.