Melvin Petty
Co-Founder & Chairman
Melvin Petty has more than 30 years of executive-level technical, operational, and financial management experience. He credits ERP’s success to the hard work of its 700 passionate employees. Since co-founding ERP in 2006 with his wife, Sandra, ERP has grown into a national firm recognized for leveraging brilliant people, innovative solutions, and business process transformation to create value-based solutions. Under Melvin’s leadership, ERP has secured 1,500-plus federal government and DoD contracts. His focus on developing sustainable business environments has earned him several accolades, including the 2021 Ernst & Young LLP Entrepreneur Of The Year® for the Mid-Atlantic region. Melvin earned a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from James Madison University, and later, CPA certification. He was part of Primark’s team that navigated its remarkable M&A period growing from $30-$720 million. Later he served as Senior Manager, CFO, and President of a small government contracting firm before starting ERP. Melvin is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants. Melvin is an Alumni of the prestigious Young President Organization (YPO), a global leadership community of extraordinary chief executives. Melvin supports many charitable organizations and is an active mentor spearheading ERP’s open-door policy for entrepreneurs that guides 15 new business people annually.
John Ely
Chief Operating Officer and President of Health Solutions
John Ely’s role as COO and President of Health Solutions is essential to ERP International’s goal to serve as a trusted partner to its national and international clients around the world, providing exceptional service delivery and customer service as the foundation of those partnerships. He leads the strategic direction, growth, planning and performance of the teams responsible for delivering mission-critical strategic sourcing, IT solutions, and professional services across ERP’s practices. He is also responsible for ERP’s Health Solutions division, which provides clinical support services across 25+ medical specialties to 100+ federal agencies. Before becoming a part of the ERP team, Mr. Ely was an Account Manager at one of the largest medical staffing agencies in the US, where he oversaw all branch operations from business development and contract management to finance, human resources, recruiting, and staff development. His multifaceted skill set was key to helping him manage more than 200 staff and 50+ government and commercial clients throughout his branch territory.
Prad Coomaraswamy
Chief Technology Officer and President of Digital Solutions
As CTO and President of Digital Services, Mr. Pradheeshan (Prad) Coomaraswamy focuses on helping ERP’s client needs by leveraging proven technical solutions in Cyber Security, Cognitive Computing, Agile DevSecOps, Software as a Service (SaaS), and Big Data Analytics. He also leads ERP’s Information Technology (IT) business unit and oversees the day to day operations of all IT programs. Under his leadership, ERP has aligned its technical solutions with the increasingly pressing needs of the Federal Government, honing in on modernization and cost reduction. Over the past three years, ERP has not only achieved CMMI DEV Maturity Level 5, but the company has also successfully incorporated an Agile blueprint into every aspect of its solution delivery framework, thanks largely in part to Mr. Coomaraswamy’s work. Prior to joining ERP, Mr. Coomaraswamy worked as the Vice President of Technology for Seamon Corporation, a Federal Contractor focused on supporting the Department of Health and Human Services. There, he developed a technology roadmap that allowed them to build and deploy custom software solutions that were fully NIST RMF compliant. Mr. Coomaraswamy has also worked as the CTO and Vice President of Operations at Ingenium Corporation, where he was responsible for leading the team that developed the first electronic case management system for wounded warriors to be deployed by the Army Medical Command.
Nicole Rockett
Chief Human Resources Officer
As CHRO, Ms. Nicole Rockett is responsible for leading all aspects of ERP’s human capital initiatives to include Organizational Development, Talent Management, Performance Excellence as well as overseeing regulatory and legal compliance in all employment business matters. As a leader within ERP, Ms. Rockett lends her knowledge and expertise to aligning HR strategy with overall business strategy. She is also instrumental in creating an employee-oriented, high performance culture that emphasizes empowerment, quality, productivity and ongoing development of a superior workforce. Prior to ERP, she served as the Director of Human Resources at Ingenium Corporation. Ms. Rockett was a key business partner where she led a team of Human Resources, Facilities and Security professionals focused on supporting corporate initiatives. A University of Maryland alum, Ms. Rockett graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. She is a member of the Society of Human Resources Management and World at Work and resides in Maryland.
Jenny Jin
Vice President, Finance & Accounting
As a senior financial leader at ERP, Jenny oversees the firm’s day-to-day accounting and financial operations. Since joining ERP as a senior accountant, Jenny has played a pivotal role in building and sustaining the firm’s strong financial foundation, supporting accelerated growth, rigorous regulatory compliance, financial reporting, and treasury management. A trusted business partner to ERP’s leadership team, Jenny has contributed directly to the firm’s exceptional financial performance, including decades of consistent revenue and profit growth. Her disciplined approach, strategic mindset, and unwavering commitment to excellence have helped establish ERP’s stellar reputation within the financial community and among strategic partners. Widely respected for her thought leadership and collaborative style, Jenny works closely with ERP’s executive team to drive sound financial decision-making and long-term value creation. She reports directly to Melvin Petty, ERP’s CEO and Managing Partner.
Michael C. Ott, MD, FCCP
Chief Medical Officer
As Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Ott uses his medical expertise and passion for teaching to oversee the strategy and initiatives for ERP International’s medical staffing practice. Dr. Ott has worked with ERP for over ten years, In addition to serving as CMO, he also serves as the Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Undersea Medicine and serves as the Medical Director of the Intensive Care Unit at Eglin Air Force Base. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine with the Uniformed Services University. Dr. Ott is an avid teacher and has won the Eglin AFB resident teaching award for five of the past eleven years. He received his undergraduate degree Magna Cum Laude from Davidson College followed by graduating as an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Dr. Ott completed his residency and fellowships at the Mayo Clinic and is credentialed in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Undersea and Hyberbaric Medicine, and Flight Surgery. Dr. Ott also serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserves and is currently the Chief of Aerospace Medicine and the Deputy Commander of the 44th AMDF. He is a board member of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Diving Medical Review Board and the Medical Director of The Ocean Corporation. Prior to his current position, Dr. Ott worked in private practice as a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician for a large multispecialty group in Melbourne, Florida. He served on the Board of Directors and as the head of Specialty Medicine for that group. Dr. Ott has lectured as an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings.
Senior Advisor Members
Dr. James Roudebush, MD MPH, Lieutenant General USAF (Retired)
Senior Advsior
Dr. James Roudebush retired from the United States Air Force in August of 2009 following 34 years of active duty military service. His last duty assignment was serving as the Surgeon General of the Air Force in Washington, D.C. In this role, he provided vision and direction to more than 42,800 people assigned to 75 medical facilities worldwide; he advised the Secretary of the Air Force and Air Force Chief of Staff, as well as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs on matters pertaining to the medical aspects of the air expeditionary force and the health of Air Force personnel. The general entered the Air Force in 1975 after receiving a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. He completed residency training in family practice at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Medical Center, Ohio, in 1978, and aerospace medicine at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, in 1984. The general served as a practicing family physician and flight surgeon, and commanded at the clinic, hospital and medical center level. Supporting Air Force and Joint medical operations worldwide, Dr. Roudebush served as Command Surgeon for US CENTCOM, the Pacific Air Forces, Air Mobility Command and US TRANSCOM prior to his selection as Deputy Surgeon General of the Air Force in 2001. In 2006, he was chosen to be the 19th Surgeon General of the Air Force. Following retirement in 2009, Dr. Roudebush became a Senior Partner in Martin, Blanck & Associates (MB&A). In November 2011, Dr. Roudebush was selected to become President of the firm. In this role, he was a key part of the MB&A leadership team providing oversight and support to twenty-five MB&A partners with expertise in health care policy, program development, management, informatics and strategic planning. Dr. Roudebush has also been selected to serve as an Advisory Board member for both large and small businesses in the federal healthcare space. In addition to the aforementioned activities, Dr. Roudebush was requested by the Henry Jackson Foundation Center for Public-Private Partnerships (CP3) to be a voluntary consultant and advisor to CP3 and The Veteran Metrics Initiative (TVMI). Dr. Roudebush was a member of TVMI’s Strategic Advisory Committee, and served as the Chairman of TVMI’s Scientific Advisory Committee. In addition, he was a volunteer advisor to the Veteran’s Bridge Home initiative, which serves to link the resources and goodwill of the Charlotte, NC community and region with the reintegration needs of returning veterans and their families.