ARIS CANDRIS

Aris Candris is responsible for all Westinghouse global operations. He became president and CEO of Westinghouse on 1 July 2008. Prior to this appointment, Dr Candris served as Senior Vice President, Nuclear Fuel, providing fuel fabrication, components and services to commercial nuclear power plants worldwide.

Prior to this role, which he assumed in September 2006, Dr Candris served as Senior Vice President in charge of the Nuclear Services business unit. His areas of responsibility included ensuring nuclear plants operate safely and competitively through field, engineering, and repair and replacement services a position he first held in 2000. In a special assignment as Senior Vice President, Operational Excellence, from June 2003 to August 2004, Dr Candris developed the formative stages of the Westinghouse Customer 1st initiative. Customer 1st builds upon the current Westinghouse strengths of technology, expertise and commitment to the nuclear industry, while focusing on attaining excellence in business processes and behaviours that will better meet the increasing expectations of our customers.

From 1996 to 1999, Dr Candris was Vice President and General Manager of the Nuclear Services business unit; Vice President of Nuclear Services operations; Director of Nuclear Services projects; and Director of Nuclear Technology. Between 1980 and 1995, Dr. Candris managed Nuclear Technology and Nuclear Services organizations in the areas of operating plant marketing; strategic operations; nuclear safety analysis and strategic development; functional design; reliability technologies; and reliability engineering. He began his Westinghouse career in 1975 as a senior engineer in the former Advanced Reactor Division.

Dr Candris holds a BA in physics, mathematics and engineering from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, and an MS and a PhD in nuclear engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.