E4 CAROLINAS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- COO & Director - Economic Development
Class of 2025 Vice President, Large Generator Product Line, Siemens Energy Brian is responsible for the production of the Siemens Energy's Generator product line in Germany and the Americas. Brian has more than 30 years of experience in the power generation industry and has held various management roles of increasing responsibility within Westinghouse and Siemens. In 2011 he was a key component in the transfer of Siemens former Gas Turbine facility in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, to the Siemens Charlotte Energy Hub. Brian completed his studies in Industrial Management in Canada prior to joining Westinghouse Electric Corp.
Job Titles:
- Senior Director, External Affairs for Gas Transmission
Bruce McKay serves as Senior Director, External Affairs for Gas Transmission & Storage (GT&S), an operating company of Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE). McKay manages a team of external affair professionals across multiple states responsible for the development and execution of strategies to advance GT&S's policy priorities on state and local matters, media relations, employee communications, and philanthropy. McKay's responsibilities also include overseeing GT&S's stakeholder outreach efforts in support of the permitting of growth projects.
McKay joined GT&S in 2020 when Dominion Energy sold its gas pipeline and storage assets to BHE. Prior to joining BHE, McKay worked for Dominion Energy and Consolidated Natural Gas since 1995. From 2006 to 2016 McKay managed Dominion Energy's federal government affairs office in Washington DC. He began his professional career working as a legislative assistant for former U.S. Senator Quentin Burdick (ND) and legislative director for U.S. Representative Earl Pomeroy (ND) focusing on energy and natural resource issues.
McKay currently serves on the board of directors of E4 Carolinas. He is past chairman of various industry organizations including the Government Relations Committee of the Center for LNG, the Legislative Committee of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, the Government Relations Committee of the Domestic Petroleum Council, and the Legislative Committee of the American Gas Association.
McKay was raised on a farm near Valley City, North Dakota. He attended the University of North Dakota, earning a B.A. in Political Science and a B.S. in Public Administration. He is married to Anne Miniter McKay, has three children, Justin, Campbell and Jackson, and resides in Great Falls, Virginia.
Class of 2023 Executive Committee, Secretary Co-chair, Carolinas Nuclear Cluster Framatome, Inc. Vice President Customer Accounts & Government Affairs in North America Appointed to the role of Vice President Customer Accounts & Government Affairs in North America, Carl Fisher draws on over 30 years of extensive domestic and international experience to lead this organization. Fisher began his career in the nuclear field in the United States Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, where he was involved in naval nuclear reactor operations and managed instrumentation and control startup, operations, maintenance, and commissioning activities. His global experience began when he started working for Duke Energy International in Hong Kong where he managed energy commercial development efforts in Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. For Duke Energy International, Fisher served in a variety of roles most notably as the Commercial Development Manager and then the Project Director for the Tasmania Natural Gas Project, which delivered natural gas to the energy constrained market of Tasmania, Australia for the first time. Fisher joined Framatome in 2003 holding various management roles in Instrumentation & Control, Electrical Systems, Hardware and Product Modernizations, Engineering, and Customer Accounts & Government Affairs. During his time with Framatome, Fisher has implemented organizational changes and initiatives resulting in significant growth. He recently led a business line which included Plant Engineering, NSSS Engineering, Electrical Products, Mechanical Products, Commercial Grade Dedication, Qualification & Testing, Inventory Management, the Nuclear Parts Center, SAFER, and Cyber Security. Recently, Fisher assumed his current role of leading Framatome's customer accounts, government affairs, and commercial excellence in North America. Fisher holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University, and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Queens University. He is a Professional Engineer and is licensed in both North Carolina and South Carolina. In addition he is a certified Project Management Professional. Fisher serves on the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Board, the UNCC EPIC Board, and the E-4 Carolina's Board.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President
- Director Emeritus / Senior Vice President, Economic Development, Duke Energy
- Member of the South Carolina Economic Developers Association
Clark Gillespy is Senior Vice President for Economic Development, Duke Energy. He is in charge of Duke's efforts to attract new industry and plant expansions to the six states in the company's utility footprint. Clark is also responsible for promoting adoption of new technology on the grid that new and expanding businesses will find attractive.
Through 2016, Clark was president of Duke Energy's utility operations in South Carolina, serving approximately 730,000 electric retail customers in the state. He was responsible for advancing the company's rate and regulatory initiatives and managing state and local regulatory and governmental relations, economic development and community affairs.
Prior to the merger between Duke Energy and Progress Energy in July 2012, Clark served as vice president of economic development, business development and territorial strategies for Duke Energy in North Carolina and South Carolina.
He joined the company in 2004 and has more than 25 years of combined experience in economic development, site selection consulting, and the practice of international law in both the United States and Europe.
Clark earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Alabama. He holds a Juris Doctorate degree from the Cumberland School of Law (Alabama), continuing with a diploma in Advanced International Legal Studies from the McGeorge School of Law in Salzburg, Austria. Clark also holds a MBA from European University in Brussels, Belgium.
Clark is a member of the South Carolina Economic Developers Association, the Palmetto Business Forum, the Utility Economic Development Association and the Public Utilities Review Committee's Energy Advisory Council. He is a member of the board of trustees for the Peace Center and serves on the advisory board for the Cumberland School of Law. He is also a member of the state bar associations of Alabama, Georgia and the District of Columbia.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Finance Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice Chair of the Board of Directors
- Vice Chair, Board of Directors / Member, Executive Committee / Chair, Finance Committee
David is President and CEO of General Microcircuits. He has been with GMI for 25
Contact information: Phone: 704-661-8131 Email: DavidDoctor@e4carolinas.org &nbs
David is an award-winning business builder and leader. He has co-founded or led more than a dozen start-up companies, most of them in the energy industry. David grew EnTrade Corporation, a natural gas marketing and trading company, to more than $1 billion in annual sales over eight years and Genscape, Inc, an energy information company, from R&D to cash-flow positive, international operation in 30 months. He raised more than $100 million in capital for companies he led, managed the subsequent sale of three companies and the bankruptcy of one. David was named an Inc. Magazine/Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award winner for EnTrade Corporation and Genscape, Inc.
David has also managed and led large corporate organizations. He was CEO of Tenneco Energy Resources Corporation, a multi-billion dollar company with 20 percent German ownership and housed within a publicly-traded holding company. David set strategy for two Fortune 500 subsidiaries; at Tenneco Energy in the early 1990s when it was diversifying internationally and at Texas Gas Transmission Corporation as it progressed through industry deregulation. David has served on the boards of directors of eight private corporations and one publicly traded subsidiary. The sales of companies under David's leadership exceed $12 billion.
David is an award-winning academic innovator and organizer. While a fulltime CEO of early stage businesses, he served from 1997 through 2005 as the University of Louisville's College of Business Bank One Entrepreneur in Residence. In 1998 he was named the College's Graduate Educator of the Year for creating an innovative approach to teaching MBA students new venture finance. In 2012 David joined Duke University's Energy Initiative where he effectively served as its chief operating officer through late 2014 while collaborating in building the Initiative.
Job Titles:
- Clemson University 's Duke Energy Endowed Chair
- Co - Chair, Workforce Development Task Force
Dr. Johan Enslin is Clemson University's Duke Energy Endowed Chair in Smart Grid Technology and director of the Zucker Family Graduate Education Center.
Previously, he served as Director for the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) and the Duke Energy Distinguished Chaired Professor in Power System at UNC Charlotte. Enslin has combined a 34-year career with leadership in industry and academia, in the US, Europe and South Africa. He served as an executive for private business operations and a professor in electrical engineering. Dr. Enslin initiated and led renewable energy teams, companies and executed multi-disciplinary power system projects. Over the course of his career Johan worked for more than 80 US, European, Asian and African power utilities, governments and industries. He authored and co-authored more than 280 technical journal and conference papers for IEEE and other organizations, and has written several chapters in scientific books. Johan is a life-long leader in the IEEE and CIGRÉ working groups and committees. He holds more than 21 provisional and final patents. He received the 2014 Charlotte Business Journal Energy Leadership Award and Graduate of Leadership North Carolina (LNC), Class XXII. Johan is an active board member of E4 Carolinas and Envision Charlotte, and serve on several university center and company advisory boards. He is a registered Professional Engineer in South Africa, Fellow of the SAIEE and Fellow of the IEEE
Class of 2023 VP, Market Development and Innovation, Hitachi Energy Gary assumes this position upon Hitachi's acquisition of ABB's Power Grids business in July 2020. Previously, Gary was Vice President of Smart Grids at ABB. He leads ABB's smart grid initiatives in North America and is the General Manager of the Smart Grid Center of Excellence in Raleigh, North Carolina. Gary has 30 years of Transmission and Distribution (T&D) experience, working for ABB in Raleigh the last 20 years in management, strategic marketing, and business development positions. Gary holds BS and ME degrees in Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Vice President
George Baldwin is a senior executive with extensive experience in identifying complex policy/management solutions, strategic planning, external affairs and building high-performance teams. Prior to establishing the Baldwin Consulting Group, George served as Duke Energy's Director of Gas & Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Policy, and previously Managing Director of Government Relations & Sustainability for Piedmont Natural Gas.
Baldwin received his Master of Environmental Management (MEM) from Duke University, his MBA from Campbell University and his BSBA from Appalachian State University. Additionally, he serves on the E4 Carolinas Board of Directors as well as other non-profit boards in the community.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Nominating Committee
- Chief Executive Officer of EnergyUnited
- Member of the Nominating Committee / Co - Chair, Innovation & Capital Task Force / Chief Executive Officer, Energy United
Directors & Management | EnergyUnited H. Wayne Wilkins is the chief execu
H. Wayne Wilkins is the chief executive officer of EnergyUnited and served as its chief operating officer for 9 years before becoming the CEO. Wilkins has worked with Davidson EMC since 1971, serving for 16 years as the executive vice president. He serves on the board of directors of the Davidson County Economic Development Commission, recently co-chaired Davidson Directions, serves on the North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation board, is a board member of the North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperatives, serves on the Rural Electric Action Program Executive Committee, and was a two-term president of the Lexington Chamber of Commerce. He received his degree, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1976.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Executive Committee
- President
- Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Class of 2024
Chair, Board of Directors
Executive Committee, Chair
Federal Co-Chair, Policy Task Force
Member, Executive Committee
Partner, Pillsbury, Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Jeffrey Merrifield is a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, in the f
Jeffrey Merrifield is a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, in the firm's Energy practice and is located in the Washington, DC office.
Mr. Merrifield was appointed by President Clinton and reappointed by President Bush to serve on the five-member, Senate-confirmed, independent United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. During his tenure, which was from October 1998 to June 2002 and from August 2002 to June 2007, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission had a staff of 3,250 employees with a budget of $900 million and set all policies and rules that govern the safe and secure use of nuclear materials at the 104 U.S. nuclear power plants operating at that time.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Merrifield served as President of The Merrifield Group, LLC where he provided energy and environmental consulting, advocacy and strategic advice for companies, organizations and individuals. Specific areas of focus included management, energy market analysis, nuclear, fossil and alternative energy policy and deployment, radioactive and hazardous waste disposal strategies, safety and regulatory assessment and analysis, as well as public and government engagement.
Before working with the Merrifield Group, Mr. Merrifield was the Senior Vice President of Global Business Development with CB&I's Power Business Unit. While there, he led a team of twenty-five sales and proposal staff to develop and win over $1.5 billion in annual sales, including the first competitive, EPC combined cycle gas unit in over six years.
Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President for The Shaw Group, Inc.'s Power Group. As a member of the Power Group's executive team, he was responsible for overseeing the group's external relationships including nuclear business development, customer relations, strategic planning, marketing and communications, as well as government and regulatory affairs.
Mr. Merrifield also served on the Board of Directors for the U.S. Ecology Corporation, which is one of the largest U.S. operators of both hazardous and low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities. He served as the Lead Director and Chairman of the Governance Committee, and was a member of the Compensation and Audit Committees.
Job Titles:
- Principal of Nuclear Energy Advisers
Jim is the Principal of Nuclear Energy Advisers. He previously served as the executive vice president of business development for Atkins Nuclear Solutions which provides specialty analysis and engineering services to the nuclear industry. Atkins Nuclear Solutions is a subsidiary of Atkins Global which is a multinational engineering, design project management services company headquartered in the UK and employs 17,500 personnel in 300 offices across 29 countries. Jim is a 42 year veteran of the nuclear industry and provided consulting services to nuclear energy organizations after retiring from URS Corporation where he was senior vice president of nuclear energy programs for URS, leading the development and implementation of strategic initiatives and services for URS for domestic and international clients.
Class of 2023 Vice President Regulatory Affairs and Policy- NC, Duke Energy
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Co - Chair, Innovation and Capital Task Force
Larry Ostema is a Partner with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP's Charlotte and Raleigh offices and co-Chairs its Energy Industry Practice Group. He has served as counsel in a range of domestic and international project and corporate financings and mergers and acquisitions in the energy, telecom, high-technology, and manufacturing industries. He has represented start-up, emerging growth, and public companies in venture capital and project financing, fund formation, technology transfer, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, management buyouts, and securities offerings.
Job Titles:
- President of Pike Engineering
- Utility Executive
Lee Mazzocchi is an experienced utility executive with 35 years in the electric utility industry. His tenure in the industry has given him an extensive background in various aspects of design, construction, operations, maintenance, customer service, project management, technology, research and development, innovation, supply chain, sustainability, and merger integration.
Mazzocchi is president of Pike Engineering, LLC, where he leads a national team of engineering professionals who serve electric, gas, and telecommunications utilities and independent power producers across the country with broad expertise. He formerly served as senior vice president Grid Solutions for Duke Energy, where he led the company's strategy and program management for regulated electric transmission and distribution investments. He was Duke Energy's chief integration and innovation officer from 2012 to 2014, Progress Energy's vice president of supply chain and chief procurement officer from 2009 to 2012 and vice president of electric power distribution from 2006 to 2009.
A native of Cary, N.C., Mazzocchi earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from North Carolina State University. He completed the Advanced Management Program at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
Mazzocchi is, past chair for the American Red Cross - Triangle Chapter, past chair for the American Heart Association - Greater Charlotte Heart Walk, past chair for College Relations committee of the N.C. State - Engineering Foundation board, founding board member and past secretary/treasurer for the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster, and past board member for Association of Edison Illuminating Companies. He was also vice chair of the Electric Power Research Institute Research Advisory Committee, and has served as a member of the Edison Institute for Electric Innovation - Strategy Committee, and Edison Electric Institute - Grid Advisory Committee.
He is currently an executive committee member for the E4Carolinas board of directors.
Since 2006, Bryan has led several transformative initiatives including increasing the number of generation stations nine-fold and creating a diversified portfolio generating 100% renewable energy, while reducing customer costs. These generation projects required the addition of significant new capabilities and resources across all departments, positioning the company for an even wider variety of future growth opportunities. In 2015, Stone stepped up to assume a dual role as the Chief Operating Officer of the largest private wastewater utility in South Carolina. Before Lockhart Power, Bryan held a variety of engineering and maintenance management roles at two Fortune 500 chemical manufacturing companies. He earned a BSEE and MSEE and an MBA from the University of Florida.
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- Co - Chair, Workforce Development Task Force / Owner / Operator Bar - Mar Ranch
- Founding Board Member
Mark Pringle recently served as the Vice President for Siemens Charlotte Energy Hub in North Carolina where he had business responsibility for Siemens' Electrical Generator Manufacturing and Service activities in Charlotte as well as for the feeder plant in Fort Payne, Alabama. He is now owner/operator of the Bar-Mar Ranch.
Mark has more than 30 years' experience in the Power Generation industry starting as a Product Design Engineer with Westinghouse and working in positions of increasing responsibility within Westinghouse and Siemens. This included his role in creating the Company's Gas Turbine repair facility in Houston, Texas, and developing the Field Service capabilities for Gas Turbines in Houston.
Mark was responsible for leading the site through a transition to peak performing status, which paved the way for the decision to make the Charlotte facility the global 60Hz manufacturing and service hub for Siemens Energy.
Mark is a founding board member of E4 Carolinas, a not-for-profit corporation that convenes industry, research and educational institutions, innovators, economic development organizations, and public leaders to coordinate the energy cluster in the Carolinas. He is also a member of the Foundation Board for Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) as well as an Advisory Board Member for the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) at the University Of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC).
Mark Pringle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He and his wife, Barb, have three children and reside in York, South Carolina.
Mr. Scott L. Carlton has a strong international business background and extensive experience within the finance and accounting functions in a global public company. He is currently the President of Tokai Carbon GE LLC, the US subsidiary of Tokai Carbon, a global leader in carbon-based materials, a position he has held since 2017. Prior to this position, Mr. Carlton was the President of SGL Carbon LLC for 10 years, leading a subsidiary of SGL Group-The Carbon Company, a leading worldwide manufacturer of carbon-based products with 42 facilities worldwide, including 12 locations in North America. From 2002 until 2007, Mr. Carlton served as Vice President of Finance and Controlling for the largest business unit of SGL Carbon Group, and in that capacity was responsible for the controlling, finance and accounting functions. Since beginning his career with SGL Carbon Group in 1994, Mr. Carlton has worked in a variety of accounting and financial positions at various locations within and outside of the US. Mr. Carlton holds a bachelor's degree in financial management, masters of business administration degree and completed the Senior Executive Education Program at the London Business School. He has a strong background in finance, with particular expertise in accounting, financial oversight and reporting. Mr. Carlton also has insurance experience on both a domestic and international scale. Mr. Carlton is actively involved on corporate boards and in the community. He is also a Director of the Carolina chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors ("NACD") and is a registered NACD Governance Fellow. Mr. Carlton serves on the board of E4 Carolinas and the German Language and Culture Foundation of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Weston Adams is the Co-Chair of the Nelson Mullins' Energy Industry Group, where he practices Energy, Environmental, and Appellate Law. He served from 2004 to 2014 as Commissioner, and then Chairman, of the SC Conservation Bank, in which time that SC State Agency funded 250,000 acres of conservation easements in South Carolina. He was educated at Sewanee, Cambridge, and the USC School of Law, where he served as the Research Editor of the South Carolina Law Review. In his law practice, he has served as lead counsel on more than 100 appeals to the SC Court of Appeals, the SC Supreme Court, and the 4th Circuit in Richmond.
Jeffrey Merrifield is a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, in the firm's Energy practice and is located in the Washington, DC office.
Mr. Merrifield was appointed by President Clinton and reappointed by President Bush to serve on the five-member, Senate-confirmed, independent United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. During his tenure, which was from October 1998 to June 2002 and from August 2002 to June 2007, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission had a staff of 3,250 employees with a budget of $900 million and set all policies and rules that govern the safe and secure use of nuclear materials at the 104 U.S. nuclear power plants operating at that time.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Merrifield served as President of The Merrifield Group, LLC where he provided energy and environmental consulting, advocacy and strategic advice for companies, organizations and individuals. Specific areas of focus included management, energy market analysis, nuclear, fossil and alternative energy policy and deployment, radioactive and hazardous waste disposal strategies, safety and regulatory assessment and analysis, as well as public and government engagement.
Before working with the Merrifield Group, Mr. Merrifield was the Senior Vice President of Global Business Development with CB&I's Power Business Unit. While there, he led a team of twenty-five sales and proposal staff to develop and win over $1.5 billion in annual sales, including the first competitive, EPC combined cycle gas unit in over six years.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Board of Directors / Principal Advisor
- Principal With RIN Advisors
Ronak is a Principal with RIN Advisors , a management consulting firm that provides strategy and operations improvement services to help organizations create more value for their owners and stakeholders through profitable growth, adaptation to changing market conditions, and capture of new opportunities. He advises companies on a range of strategic issues including new business development, product commercialization, innovation, sales & marketing, and partnerships/M&A. He works with companies from $50M to $10B in a variety of industries including manufacturing, energy, private equity, chemicals, and packaging.
Prior to RIN Advisors, Ronak spent 6 years at McKinsey & Company, where he led consulting and client teams at Fortune 500 companies deal with their most pressing strategic challenges. Ronak also worked as a scientist at Beam Power Technology, a startup commercializing particle accelerator technologies he developed as a graduate student for applications in telecommunications and radar.
In his spare time, Ronak teaches courses in business and energy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he is a part-time Associate Professor in the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC). He received an Energy Leadership Award from the Charlotte Business Journal, earned his doctorate in physics from MIT, and his B.S. in physics at Caltech.
Job Titles:
- ElectriCities in 2009 As the Senior Vice President of Planning
Roy joined ElectriCities in 2009 as the Senior Vice President of Planning and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2011 before becoming CEO in November 2015. Roy has more than 35 years of experience in the electric power industry, including both public power and investor-owned utility experience. He began his career with Entergy in 1981. Following his time with Entergy, he joined Midwest ISO in Indiana. He holds a Bachelor of Science in electric engineering from LaSalle University.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Vice President
Rusty is Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Gas FOR Dominion Energy Southeast. He is also president, South Carolina Electric & Gas, and Gas Operations senior vice president, SCANA. Rusty joined SCE&G, as a customer service engineer in 1986. In January 2006, he was named president and chief operating officer of PSNC Energy. Rusty became a senior vice president of SCANA in May 2012 and president of SCE&G, gas operations in February 2013. He graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in electrical engineering and earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of South Carolina.
Scott Carlberg has had a career in various energy organizations, spanning oil, gas, pipeline, electric, and research organizations. He was part of the Carolinas for several decades and now is in the Kansas City area.
His energy work includes the full range of communications and corporate public affairs - media, community relations, executive relations, planning, writing, and project management.
Carlberg was the inaugural president of E4 Carolinas, and created the Carolinas Nuclear Cluster, which developed multi-national economic development opportunities across the Carolinas. He is currently an energy feature and blog-writer.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Aecon Nuclear
Sean Sexstone is Senior Vice President, Aecon Nuclear. He is responsible for leading Aecon's Nuclear group with a focus on life extension projects, plant life maintenance projects, maintenance services, nuclear staffing and nuclear fabrication. In addition, Mr. Sexstone leads Aecon-Wachs, a strategic services and fabrication business based in Jackson, SC.
Mr. Sexstone brings a diverse range of global energy industry experience in both domestic and international sales, as well as operations and management, with expertise in project management, supply chain, product line management and commercial development. He is recognized in the industry for fostering effective client relationships and leveraging innovation.
Prior to joining Aecon, Mr. Sexstone served as Global Vice President, Power, at Chicago Bridge and Iron, where he was responsible for the company's Power Product Line, and previously served as Director, Strategic Alliances, at Entergy Inc., where he was responsible for vendor performance and supply chain across the second largest U.S. commercial nuclear fleet. Mr. Sexstone has also held leadership roles at General Electric in transmission and distribution, power generation and nuclear power. He holds a Masters of Business Administration from Duke University and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University.
Job Titles:
- Program Director, Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
Job Titles:
- Formerly President & CEO, AREVA Federal Services
Tom was an E4 Carolinas organizer and served as Board Chair 2014 - 15 . In 2017 he retire from AREVA where he served as President & CEO of Federal Services, LLC. In this role, he was responsible for the group's business operations overseeing the P/L, development of new innovative products and services, customer relationships, personnel development and overall project delivery for AREVA's Federal Operations.
Tom has more than 34 years of power industry experience in various technical, engineering, and executive positions.
He has served recently as a Key Account Executive, Sr. Vice President of Reactors & Services Business Group, and Sr. Vice President of AREVA's Engineering & Projects organization. Through all of these roles, Tom has demonstrated his expertise and knowledge in design, analysis, licensing, outage services, and construction of nuclear generation stations. His technical knowledge was complemented by his propensity for business - guiding and fostering innovation ideas through his project management and business management/development roles.
Tom holds BS degrees in Civil Engineering and Architecture from the University of Illinois. He is also a founding Board member for the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte.
Weston Adams is the Co-Chair of the Nelson Mullins' Energy Industry Group, where he practices Energy, Environmental, and Appellate Law. He served from 2004 to 2014 as Commissioner, and then Chairman, of the SC Conservation Bank, in which time that SC State Agency funded 250,000 acres of conservation easements in South Carolina. He was educated at Sewanee, Cambridge, and the USC School of Law, where he served as the Research Editor of the South Carolina Law Review. In his law practice, he has served as lead counsel on more than 100 appeals to the SC Court of Appeals, the SC Supreme Court, and the 4th Circuit in Richmond.