Patrick Brown is Senior Vice President, Field Operations, for Centrus Energy and President of American Centrifuge Operating, LLC. In these roles, Mr. Brown leads Centrus’ activities at its Tennessee and Ohio sites, including the centrifuge design and manufacturing as well as the operations of our enrichment and manufacturing facilities.
A nuclear engineer and experienced business leader, Brown previously served as Vice President of Strategy & Transformation at National Grid, working to reposition the company’s portfolio and delivering a $450 million operational excellence and efficiency program. He spent nearly a decade as a management consultant at Ernst & Young and RLG International, advising major utilities, oil and gas companies, and local energy services companies. He also served as an operations and engineering lead helping guide the commissioning of Urenco’s centrifuge enrichment plant in New Mexico.
Brown led and managed teams to operate, maintain and refuel Entergy’s Waterford 3 nuclear reactor in Louisiana, and served as a project manager at Nucor, the largest steel manufacturer in the United States. He began his career in the U.S. Navy, serving as a nuclear power plant operations leader aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise and directing a nuclear operations team in a combat environment during Operation Enduring Freedom.