Board Of Directors
John J. Loverde
John J. LoVerde is the Director of Architectural Acoustics at Veneklasen Associates, and has more than 34 years of experience in acoustical consulting. John received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 1989. He earned a Masters’ Degree in Acoustics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has designed all building types, including thousands of guestrooms and multifamily residential spaces. He has also developed specialized acoustical risk management programs for owners and developers, which they employ portfolio-wide. John has published over 160 technical papers and presented at numerous conferences around the world. In November 2009, he was appointed to ASA’s Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics, and in 2013, he was recognized in the field as a full Member of the ASA. In 2017, John became a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America for contribution to noise and impact sound control. John has also provided the theory for 9 of the 12 current impact metrics recognized in the ASTM E33 standards.
Wayland Dong
As Director of Applied Research at Veneklasen Associates, Wayland Dong develops calculation and measurement methods and maintains a high level of technical capability among the staff. He is an active member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and the international acoustics research community. He has coauthored papers in the Journal of the ASA and given numerous presentations at ASA meetings and international conferences, as well as at other professional meetings and architectural and developer groups. Impact and airborne noise isolation in multifamily structures has been his longstanding research subject. Other subjects include uncertainties in acoustical measurement methods, sampling, and calculation methods for exterior façade analysis, and measurements of flanking noise transmission.
Gary E. Mange
Gary Mange has more than fifty years experience in environmental acoustical measurements and analysis, during which, he has been an active member of ASTM and the Audio Engineering Society. In his career, Gary worked on the acoustic designs of residences, office buildings, churches, industrial plants, and large amphitheaters. He served as the Lab Manager of the Western Electro-Acoustic Laboratory from 1999 to 2015. He has been an integral part of the Foundation since 2015, and has steered the direction of the Foundation such that a maximum impact can be made in the field of Acoustics.
Previous Board of Directors
David Lubman (1996 - 2024)
David passed away in 2024 and he was a board of Director of this Foundation until the end. He was a founder of the new field of archaeoacoustics. His discoveries and insights about the engineering of sound have appeared in Science, Scientific American, New Scientist, National Geographic, Science News, and in recent books. David served as a consultant for shows for the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and he has been interviewed by National Public Radio, Science Friday, BBC London and Scotland, and German National Radio. He served as national chair for architectural acoustics for the ASA and Senior Editor of a book “The Acoustics of Worship Spaces”, published by the American Institute of Physics.
We remember him for his contribution and we wish that he rest in eternal peace.
Joe Ortega (1996 - 2007)
Joe passed away recently prior to which, he served as the CEO and the Board of Director of the Foundation until 2007. Joe worked with Paul Veneklasen from 1957 - 2007, for 50 years! He had an immense contribution to the field of Acoustics such as development of microphones for boundary layer pressure fluctuations, boundary layer control for aircraft noise, and development of specialized electro-acoustic microphones (teeth microphones) for communication in aircrafts, among other things. He is also credited with the design of several auditorium spaces around the world.
We remember him for his contribution and we wish that he rest in eternal peace.