LINK
RESOURCES WELCOMES
NEW
STAFF MEMBERS
DR.
ANDREW KADAK AND
J
ANTHONY SPROW
Link Resources would like
to welcome Dr. Andrew Kadak and J. Anthony Sprow as members of our Team.
Dr. Andrew Kadak has had a distinguished career in nuclear energy and
now provides a capstone to Link's substantial set of nuclear credentials. J
Anthony Sprow joins Link as a market expert in energy financing with senior
advisor level experience at DOE as well as global financing credentials. We
welcome these titans of the energy industry to Link's staff and look
forward to the energy with which these gentlemen are already creating with
our clients.
Dr. Andrew Kadak has an
international reputation in the nuclear energy field as well as the broader
power generation arena, with deep experience in the development of advanced
reactors, improved technology-neutral licensing standards for advanced
reactors/small modular reactors (SMRs), operations, management, and
decommissioning issues of existing nuclear power plants, and even space
nuclear power systems.
His positions have
included:
Principal
and Director of Nuclear Services at Exponent, Inc.
SMR
subcommittee of the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board,
Professor of
the Practice in the Nuclear Engineering Department of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
President
and CEO of Yankee Atomic Electric Company ,
President of
the American Nuclear Society,
Board and
executive committee member of the Nuclear Energy Institute and the
industry's Advisory Committee on High Level Waste,
Member of
the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners special
panel on high level nuclear waste and the Aspen Institute's
"Dialogue on Nuclear Waste Disposal",
Advisory
Committee on External Regulation of Department of Energy Nuclear
Safety,
Appointed by
the President to serve on the US Nuclear Waste Technology Review
Board,
Member of
the Senior Nuclear Safety Oversight Board of the Daya Bay nuclear
power stations in Guangdong Province in China,
Chairman of
panel providing suggestions to the DOE's Nevada Test Site,
Member of
the Rhode Island Atomic Energy Commission,
International
speaker: more than 70 lectures and speeches on topics related to the
technical and business aspects of nuclear power.
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
- Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering - Reactor Physics (1972)
- M.S., Nuclear Engineering (1970)
Northeastern University -
M.B.A. (1983)
Union College - B.S.,
Mechanical Engineering (1967)
For the past 33 years, Mr.
Sprow has accumulated impressive experience in the development, packaging,
and private sector financing of large-scale infrastructure projects in
numerous energy markets around the globe. Mr. Sprow's experience includes:
Senior
Advisor at U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program,
Chairman
& CEO at the Dahlgren Group,
Chairman
Board of Directors at Chase Investment Bank (Singapore) Ltd.,
Managing
Director Project Finance at Chase Manhattan Asia Limited Hong Kong,
Vice
President Project Finance at Banque Paribas New York,
Corporate
Finance Global Energy Group at The Chase Manhattan Bank New York,
Regional
Petroleum Executive at The Chase Manhattan Bank Singapore, and
Prior to
receiving his MBA at Harvard, he was employed as a Computer Systems
Analyst in the Defense, Aerospace and Transportation Industries
1972 Hampton University,
Hampton, VA, University of California, Berkeley, CA
BA Mathematics
1978 Harvard University
Graduate School of Business, Boston, MA
MBA General
Management/Finance
Honors: Cogme Fellowship
Link
Resources, Inc. is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)
with deep roots and broad credentials in the energy arena, from senior
executive consulting to hands-on execution. From nuclear to fossil to
renewables we have helped clients navigate and perform through the energy
plant life-cycle - - from technology assessment to development through
financing, EPC, scale-up, commissioning, O&M and D&D.
We look
forward to hearing from you.
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