NuScale Executive Management

Paul G. Lorenzini, PhD – Chief Executive Officer

Paul Lorenzini has extensive experience in both executive management and nuclear operations.  Prior to co-founding NuScale, Lorenzini held several executive positions with PacifiCorp and its domestic and international subsidiaries.  These positions included president of Pacific Power & Light, CEO of PacifiCorp Turkey, and CEO of Powercor Australia.

Lorenzini previously worked with Rockwell International where he was named vice president and general manager of Rockwell’s Hanford operations.  Rockwell employed more than 5,000 people and was responsible for nuclear waste management, fuel reprocessing, the Basalt Waste Isolation Project and major site services.  In earlier service with Rockwell, Lorenzini was involved in developing safety analysis codes for design of the Liquid Metal-Cooled Fast Breeder Reactor (LMFBR).

An attorney as well as a nuclear engineer, Lorenzini worked with a Portland law firm where he represented community leaders in Eastern Oregon who intervened in state regulatory proceedings in support of a proposed nuclear plant in their community.

Lorenzini holds a PhD in nuclear engineering from Oregon State University and a JD from Loyola University in Los Angeles.  He is the current chair of the OSU Foundation and has served in leadership positions on numerous community organizations.

Jose N. Reyes, PhD – Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Reyes is the co-designer of the NuScale passively-cooled small nuclear reactor.  He is an internationally recognized expert on passive safety system design, testing and operations for nuclear power plants. He currently serves as a United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) technical expert on passive safety systems. Dr. Reyes successfully established a 17-nation coordinated research program on passive safety systems for the IAEA and also developed and directed a course on natural circulation and passive safety systems at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.

At Oregon State University, Dr. Reyes served as head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics. He directed the Advanced Thermal Hydraulic Research Laboratory (ATHRL) and was the co-director of the Battelle Energy Alliance Academic Center of Excellence (ACE) for Thermal Fluids and Reactor Safety in support of the Idaho National Laboratory mission. Additionally, Dr. Reyes was the OSU principal investigator for the Westinghouse AP600 and AP1000 certification test programs sponsored by the USNRC, the U.S. Department of Energy and Westinghouse.

Prior to joining the faculty at OSU, Dr. Reyes worked nearly 10 years as a thermal hydraulics research engineer in the Reactor Safety Division of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Maryland and a B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Florida. He is the author of numerous technical papers and has given lectures and keynote addresses to professional nuclear organizations in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Tom Marcille – Chief Operating Officer

Tom Marcille leads NuScale Power's efforts to complete the NuScale design and prepare a Design Certification Application to be submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission by the end of 2010.

Marcille brings NuScale an extensive background in reactor design, project management and licensing. He joined NuScale from Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was chief engineer for advanced reactors. There his responsibilities included development, management, and execution of terrestrial and special purpose reactor programs. He was Los Alamos' chief technologist for reactor physics, core design, nuclear methods, as well as its business lead and industry liaison.

Prior to Los Alamos, Marcille spent 20 years as a contributing, managing and principal engineer in GE's advanced and terrestrial Boiling Water Reactor business units. He received certification as a Six Sigma/MAIC/DFSS and participated in the GE Corporate Project Leadership program and was a GE Edison Engineering Instructor.

Marcille is the author of numerous professional and technical papers. He received the Distinguished Performance Award from the US Department of Energy and the GE Corporate Engineering Excellence Award. He serves on the Technical Advisory Board to SCATEC AS / THOR ENERGY AS in Oslo, Norway.

Marcille is a graduate of the University of Florida with degrees in physics and nuclear engineering and is a member of the university's Nuclear Engineering Advisory Group.

John “Jay” Surina, Chief Financial Officer

John “Jay” Surina, Chief Financial Officer, leads all aspects of NuScale Power’s finance function, including financial strategy, accounting, forecasting and corporate finance.

Prior to joining NuScale, Surina was vice president, financial planning and analysis at Boart Longyear. He was instrumental in the initial public offering of Boart Longyear shares on the Australian exchange in 2007. In that role he co-managed the mining services company’s global finance function and led strategic planning and mergers and acquisition work within the finance function.

Surina previously held executive positions in energy industry finance, as well as mergers and acquisitions, with Texas Genco, Centrica North America, and Sithe Energies, including large equity and debt financing capital raising, both at the corporate and project levels. He was co-founder and a managing partner of Cornerstone Energy Advisors, an advisory firm focused on the sale and financing of electric generating stations.

Surina is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. A former nuclear trained submarine officer, he continues to serve as a Captain in the Naval Reserve Intelligence Program.

Bruce Landrey, Business Development

Bruce Landrey’s experience in the nuclear industry encompasses more than 25 years in business strategy, public policy, investor relations, and communications.

Landrey is a former vice president corporate relations, for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). While there, Landrey directed communications and government affairs in the seven-state region served by TVA. Prior to joining TVA, Landrey was director of investor relations for Portland General Corp. He also served as assistant to the president, and assistant to the chairman and chief executive officer. In addition, Landrey held the position of director of corporate communications at Portland General Electric Co.(PGE). In those roles, he was involved with acquisitions and new ventures in independent power and wholesale power marketing, and held responsibility for issues management, media relations, community relations and emergency communications planning for PGE’s Trojan Nuclear Plant and proposed Pebble Springs Nuclear Project.

Landrey has been involved in numerous industry-wide initiatives as a committee member of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the Institute for Nuclear Power Operations and the Electric Power Research Institute. He is a native of Vancouver, Canada, and is a graduate of the University of Oregon.