Organisation

Jérôme Stubler – Chairman
Jérôme graduated from Ecole des arts et metiers and from Ecole Polytechnique of Paris. He joined Freyssinet in 1989 and was the project manager of major structures such as Normandy bridge, Tagus bridge and Hibernia oil platform. He became Technical Director of Freyssinet in 1996 and then in charge of the Nuclear and Structures business from 2001. He became CEO of Nuvia and Freyssinet in January 2009.

Ken Jackson – Managing Director
Ken has a masters degree in engineering from Cambridge University. He spent his early years in project management, design and plant operations in the petrochemicals industry in the UK and Spain. He joined the nuclear industry in 1981 with British Nuclear Fuels and quickly became Chief Engineer at Sellafield. He was Project Director for the fuel reprocessing plant THORP before joining the Board of Directors of BNFL as Engineering Director In the early 1990′s. He was also a director of URENCO, UK Nirex, and Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd. In the mid 1990’s he went back into the chemical industry until 2002 when he joined Nuvia UK as Engineering and Projects Director. For the last 2 years he has been advising the Board of the Nuvia Group on its international strategy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Dr Will Phythian – Director
Will obtained his degree and PhD at Liverpool University and was awarded a Wolfson Industrial fellowship at Oxford University. He has worked in the nuclear industry since 1987 when he joined UKAEA Harwell and was the lead scientist and project manager for a variety of international collaborations on nuclear materials related projects. In 1999 he moved to Canada as President and CEO of a UK/Canadian nuclear joint venture company. Returning to the UK in 2002 his focus has been international mergers and acquisitions and was the Director for the Nuvia Consulting business. Since 2008 he has lead the Nuvia Group’s international expansion and is now focused on the success of the Group’s major strategic project — Nuvia India.

Somnath Biswas – Director
Somnath is the Managing Director of Reinforced Earth India Pvt Ltd, the Indian subsidary of Terre Armée (Soletanche Freyssinet) and now also Director of Nuvia India Pvt Ltd. A native of Kolkata, Somnath studied in the West Bengal capital city, graduating with a degree in civil engineering and post graduated in management studies.

Minu Singh – General Manager – Business Development and Strategy
Minu is an engineering graduate in Electronics and is currently pursuing MBA from S.P.Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai. Minu has over a decade of experience in building and implementing business strategies primarily in Consumer Electronics, Display Technology, Glass for special application and Nuclear Energy industry. She also has extensive experience in Product Development, Project Management and Component Development. Minu comes to Nuvia India from a German corporate, where she was supporting their global effort in developing civilian nuclear business in India. Prior to this, she was involved in Avionics, developing the technology and product indigenously. Minu has responsibility for maximizing Nuvia participation in India Nuclear Business. The market knowledge and product development experience will be a great advantage in bringing Nuvia technology to the Indian market.

Mr. Rajat Pandey – General Manager – Operations
Mr. Rajat Pandey is a graduate in Metallurgical Engineering from Institute of Technology-BHU and a post graduate in Nuclear Engineering from IIT-Kanpur. He has also completed post graduation programme in General Management from IIM-Lucknow.

In 23 years of his career, he gained experience in nuclear power plant technology, design management, project planning and engineering industry. He is an ex-naval officer and last served the position of Joint Director Naval Design. He worked with a major engineering and manufacturing company as Deputy General Manager-Projects prior to joining Nuvia India

Rajat is responsible for the delivery of Nuvia India projects and services and will be building a team to ensure that the best use of the Nuvia Group technology is incorporated into design and that our projects and services are consistently executed to the highest quality and safety standards.

Rashmi Garg – Assistant Manager – Operations
Rashmi is an engineering graduate in Electrical and Electronics. She has over 8 years of Experience in high technology industries. She started her carrier with the Indian Space Research Organisation before moving to the Telecom Sector with Tata Teleservices and Aircel Ltd. She has considerable experience in driving Quality Assurance and Customer Service Delivery operations. Rashmi joins the Nuvia India team to provide both technical and quality support services to our project delivery team, reporting directly to GM Operations.