GF NUCLEAR - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Finance Director
• Co - Chair of the Low Carbon Finance Group

Andrew is finance director of GF Nuclear. A developer and financier of large-scale energy projects since 1992, his experience spans projects in over 30 countries, where he has been responsible for the delivery more than £11billion of energy investment. From 2009 to 2014, Andrew was managing director of Royal Bank of Scotland's energy and infrastructure team in London. Under his leadership his department financed £1.8billion of projects and became the leading lender to the UK's renewables sector. Andrew is co-chair of the Low Carbon Finance Group. He is a regular expert contributor to government and industry groups on policy and financing issues: he undertook extensive collaboration at senior and ministerial level with Department of Energy and Climate

Job Titles:

• Technical Director

Stephen has a background in nuclear reactor analysis and project management in the defence and civil nuclear industries. He has an MSc in Nuclear Reactor Physics & Technology and a PhD in Mathematics. He lectured in mathematics at Cardiff University and the Open University. He has worked on nuclear programmes for the Ministry of Defence and for the civil reactor industry. Recently, he has been advising the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) on nuclear issues, including security of nuclear information and its safeguards. Through this work Stephen is experienced in applying UK and international safety and security standards to nuclear programmes and in working with nuclear regulatory authorities. Stephen has assisted the MOD with information security and authored the MOD's official guidance on the classification of sensitive nuclear information. In this role he worked extensively with the Office of Civil Nuclear Security (OCNS) in the UK and with the Department of the Environment (DoE) in the US to provide information-security advice to civil nuclear operators. He created a framework to enable nuclear regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to peer-review each other's work. In the civil nuclear industry Stephen has developed computational codes to predict the behavior of pressurized-water reactors and has advised on risk and safety management for nuclear development programmes. He has conducted critical reviews of safety case methodology and probabilistic safety assessments to support nuclear site licence applications. Recently, he provided training to the United Arab Emirates' nuclear regulator on creating a nuclear safety culture within their organisation.

Job Titles:

• Managing Director

Jeremy entered the power sector with Mark Jones seven years ago. Starting with a green biomass power station in northern England, in 2010 they negotiated a contract to build and operate 220MW of power stations for National Grid PLC. Jeremy led the fundraising in the City of London, successfully raising a blend of equity, junior and senior debt on a project-finance basis.

Job Titles:

• Managing Director

A Chartered Civil Engineer, Mark was awarded a first class degree in engineering by Liverpool University. He worked for civil engineering firms in the UK and Middle East before setting up and running his own construction businesses spanning the UK, the Middle East and the Caribbean. Mark has built more conventional power capacity in the UK in the past five years than any other British company. The group currently has 750MW of new gas-fired capacity in development. Mark manages every aspect of the design of our power stations, liaising with our structural engineers, civil engineers and plant manufactures. He oversees our permitting applications and speaks at their associated public consultations. He organises working and detailed budgets for the construction programme and ensures that they are kept to. Mark personally project-manages the construction of our power stations and substations, with the result that every one has been built within time and under budget. He set up and now directs our successful high-voltage electrical network business, which designs and installs connections to the grid. Our O&M company services a nationwide range of power stations. Earlier in his career he was a Senior Tournament Director with the Professional Golfers' Association, responsible for staging two Ryder Cup matches.

Job Titles:

• Resilience Director

Philip Hannah is a graduate of Cambridge University and a former officer in the British Army's Brigade of Gurkhas. During his military service Philip led soldiers on operations in the Balkans and engaged in military planning and intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Asia. Since leaving the British Army Philip has established himself as one of the foremost experts in the field of nuclear security and resilience in the UK. Philip holds the unique position of being a trusted advisor to both the civil and the defence nuclear programmes in the UK. He designed and now teaches the Threat & Vulnerability Analysis Peer Review (TVAPR) methodology on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence and was also responsible for the doctrine used by the armed response of the Ministry of Defence Police to protect the UK's nuclear deterrent. As an advisor to the UK civil nuclear industry Philip was responsible for the first Potential Adversary Force (PADFOR) planning document for UK duty holders and he has developed a number of papers and Best Practice Guides for the World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS). Most recently Philip has been supporting the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) by leading on the project to revise the entirety of the UK's civil nuclear security regulations.