Michael E. Shepherd

Michael E. Shepherd has more than 30 years of experience working in the nuclear power industry. He joined The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) in August 2009 as Vice President of Business Development for B&W Nuclear Energy. Most recently, Mr. Shepherd served as Sales Director for OEM turbine generator services sales in the Ohio River Valley and Canada for GE. Before that, he spent four years with GE Water and Process Technologies, as a senior product applications manager, involved in global product marketing for the fuels and combustion products, and in the power industry segment.

Mr. Shepherd spent the fi rst 23 years of his professional career with GE’s nuclear business unit where he started as a fi eld engineer. This eventually led to positions at various construction sites in the northeast and then as a startup engineer at the Shoreham Station and Limerick 2 Station. In 1990, Mr. Shepherd was assigned as the GE Site Services Manager at Pilgrim Station. In 1993, he took on a sales role as Nuclear Services Manager responsible for the New England BWR customers, and in 1998 moved to Chicago to be the Nuclear Account Manager for ComEd.

After successfully establishing and growing GE Energy’s business with ComEd’s and PECO’s nuclear business units, the predecessors to Exelon, Mr. Shepherd was promoted to Account Executive for Exelon in 2000. It was in this position that he was recognized for establishing and leading the successful Enterprise Selling model between GE and Exelon, which yielded more than $2 billion in orders over seven years.

Mr. Shepherd received a BSME from Northeastern University, and an MBA from Northern Illinois University. He is also Senior Reactor Operator certifiedfor First Energy’s Perry Station and Exelon’s Limerick Station.