Nuclear Industry Forum

Mike Tynan

Vice President, UK, Middle East and Egypt, Westinghouse

Biography

Mike Tynan was appointed Vice President for Westinghouse business in the UK, Middle East and Egypt in July 2010 and serves as Chief Executive for Westinghouse UK Limited.

He brings 36 years of nuclear industry experience to this role and was most recently Managing Director of the Westinghouse UK Fuel Business at Springfields.

He has held leadership positions at the key UK nuclear establishments of Sellafield, Springfields and Risley.

Mike is widely recognised as a change leader and has been at the forefront of major changes in the UK, including restructuring of the UK nuclear industry to create site licensed companies for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

Mike is also recognised as an expert in Business to Business service relationships and is dedicated to the development of people within the industry, both as a Director of the UK’s National Skills Academy for Nuclear and through his work with Regional Agencies to further the socio economic development of Central Lancashire.

Robert Davies

Vice President New Build, AREVA

Biography

He spent some 25 years in the Royal Navy, commanding three warships, followed by Budgetary and Planning appointments in the Ministry of Defence. He completed an MBA, and then joined Framatome ANP where he lead on Service, Dismantling and Waste Management in UK, followed by a period as UK Country Director for AREVA NP and now as Vice President for AREVA UK responsible for all new build business development activities.

Mark Higson

Chief Executive Nuclear Unit, Department for Energy & Climate Change

Biography

Mark Higson was appointed CEO of the Office for Nuclear Development when it was set up in September 2008. The Office is responsible for implementing nuclear policy, facilitating the development of new nuclear power in the United Kingdom, and advising Ministers the exercise of their regulatory functions in relation to the nuclear industry. Prior to taking up this appointment, Mark was head of the nuclear unit in the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, and led the team which conducted the consultation on the future of nuclear power leading to the 2008 White Paper on nuclear power.

Mark is a professional administrator whose career has focused on competition and utility regulation, privatisation and the financing of state-owned enterprises. Prior to taking on BERR's nuclear portfolio in September 2006, Mark was deputy CEO at the Shareholder Executive, the organisation responsible for discharging the shareholder role for Government owned businesses, with specific responsibility for Royal Mail, BNFL and UKAEA. He has worked as a regulator in Ofgas (now Ofgem), on a number of privatisations in the electricity and gas sectors and, for a period, in investment banking at Kleinwort Benson.

Alan Raymant

Chief Operating Officer, Horizon Nuclear Power

Biography

Alan Raymant is the Chief Operating Office for the nuclear joint venture between E.ON and RWE. He took up his position in August of this year. Alan has over 20 years experience in the Electricity Industry and has held a number of senior management posts in generation, distribution and engineering development and construction. He joined the joint venture from Central Networks where he was Director of Operations and Asset Management. Prior to joining Central Networks in 2003, he was Head of E.ON UK’s Renewables business and led the development of a number of renewable generation projects. Alan is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of both the Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Institution of Engineering and Technology.