Bethesda, Md.,-based Orano USA has a new management team and several new board of directors for its Federal Services Business unit that does business with the Department of Energy, the company said early Wednesday.
Orano Federal Services President Dorothy Davidson said in a press release that the new management team will include:
- Joe Faldowskim, chief operations officer, who has more than 25 years of nuclear experience, much of it with Orano-run operations in France.
- Leah Crider, chief commercial officer, with 15 years in the energy industry, most recently as head of product management at GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy.
- Ralph DiSibio, chief strategy officer, a 40-plus year industry vet who was once president of Washington Group International, where he was responsible for DOE contracts at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the Hanford Site in Washington and others. DiSibio will also serve on the Orano Federal board.
- Paul Murray, chief technology officer, is a 40-year industry hand. Much of his background concentrated within the DOE and commercial nuclear industries.
- Gilles Rousseau, chief P3 (public private partnership) initiative officer, has logged 25 years managing complex commercial and government projects within the nuclear, defense, and aerospace industries.
DiSibio is one of Orano’s five new board members. Others are retired Vice Admiral Chuck Munns, former Exelon Power fleet executive Mike Pacilio, previous Kurion board chair Steve Piccolo and Sue Stiger, a longtime Bechtel executive with much experience throughout the DOE complex.
Orano USA is part of the global Orano company based in France.
Together with Waste Control Specialists in West Texas, Orano is part of the Interim Storage Partners looking to develop a spent nuclear fuel facility in the state’s Permian Basin. It currently has a limited role in the DOE nuclear cleanup sector serving as an integrated subcontractor member of Nuclear Waste Partnership, which runs the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. In July 2020, Orano USA was one of nine contractors selected by DOE to share in up to $3 billion worth of decommissioning and removal work for the agency over 10 years.
