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Kenneth Young
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Kenneth Young has served as Chief Executive Officer since November 2018 and Chairman since September 2020. He has more than 30 years of global operational, executive and director experience primarily within the energy, communications and finance industries.
Known for strategic acumen and effective transformational leadership, Mr. Young is driving a turnaround at B&W, improving the company’s profitability with solid increases in bookings, revenues and earnings, while reducing its senior debt by more than $200 million. He has led a number of acquisitions to expand the company’s products and services portfolio, and successfully launched B&W’s ClimateBright™ suite of technologies that are providing critical solutions to address global climate change goals, including B&W’s innovative BrightLoop™ hydrogen production and decarbonization technology for power and industrial uses.
Mr. Young previously served as President of B. Riley Financial, Inc., and Chief Executive Officer for B. Riley Principal Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of B. Riley Financial. Before joining B. Riley, he held executive leadership positions with Lightbridge Communications Corporation (LCC), which was the largest independent telecom construction and services company in the world and a recognized leader in providing network services.
Prior to joining LCC, Mr. Young held C-level positions within several of Liberty Media’s subsidiaries. Prior to Liberty Media, Mr. Young held executive management positions within Cingular Wireless, SBC Wireless, Southwestern Bell Telephone and AT&T as part of his 16-year tenure within the now-combined AT&T Corporation.
Mr. Young holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Graceland University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern Illinois.
Mr. Young has served on various boards for nine public companies.
Jimmy B. Morgan
Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
Jimmy Morgan is Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for the commercial and business development for B&W’s ClimateBright™ and BrightLoop™ suite of products as well as select biomass and waste-to-energy projects that leverage B&W’s new and emerging technologies.
He was named to his current role in January 2025 and has served in a number of senior and executive-level roles with B&W. He was named Chief Operating Officer in August 2020 and Executive Vice President in January 2022. From January 2019 until August 2020, Mr. Morgan was Senior Vice President, responsible for B&W’s global aftermarket, new-build and environmental products and services businesses. In March of 2020 he took on the role as Managing Director of the Company’s Babcock & Wilcox Vølund subsidiary and led B&W’s global licensing activities.
From December 2016 through January 2019, Mr. Morgan led the company’s renewable energy business, including Babcock & Wilcox Vølund and its operations and maintenance services businesses. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of Operations, responsible for B&W’s Global Manufacturing, Global Supply Chain Management, Quality, Facility Services, and Environmental, Health, Safety & Security functions. He also was responsible for Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co., LLC.
Mr. Morgan has been in the global energy and construction industry for more than 35 years, and has considerable large project management, operations and construction experience. He joined B&W in February 2016 as Vice President and General Manager, Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co., LLC., serving in that position until he was named Vice President, Operations, in May 2016 and Senior Vice President of Operations in August 2016. Before joining B&W, he was Executive Vice President for Allied Technical Resources, Inc. Previous positions included serving as Chief Operating Officer with BHI Energy, Vice President of Installation and Modification Services with Westinghouse and as Managing Director for AREVA T&D. He began his career with Duke Energy as a Maintenance Engineer at one of the largest operating plants in the United States.
He has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of South Carolina, and a Master’s of Business Administration from the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.
John J. Dziewisz
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
John Dziewisz is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Babcock & Wilcox (B&W), which is a global leader in energy and environmental technologies and services for the power and industrial markets.
Dziewisz oversees the legal operations for all B&W business segments as well as Risk Management and Ethics and Compliance. He also serves as the company’s Chief Compliance Officer.
Dziewisz joined B&W in 1997 as an attorney. He subsequently held a number of more responsible positions including Managing Attorney, in which he led the legal activities of multiple B&W business operations, including service, construction and various international operations. From June 2013 until January 2019, Dziewisz served as Assistant General Counsel, Operations & Intellectual Property, responsible for the legal activities for all B&W operations related to proposal/project management, human resources, dispute resolution, intellectual property, business entity formation and mergers & acquisition activities in domestic and international markets. He was named Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer in January 2019. He was named Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in January 2020, and Executive Vice President in January 2022.
A native of Northeast Ohio, Dziewisz graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and earned his law degree from the University of Akron. He has also completed numerous leadership and management programs.
Gillianne Hetrick
Senior Vice President, Corporate Operations
Gillianne Hetrick is Senior Vice President, Corporate Operations, responsible for the Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) Human Resources, Environmental Health, Safety & Security, Information Technology, Communications & Marketing, Facility Services, and Global Travel organizations.
She was named to her current role in January 2025 after serving as Vice President, Corporate Operations, since August 2022. Ms. Hetrick joined the company in 2019 and subsequently took on several new roles of increasing responsibility, including for the company’s corporate projects, mergers and acquisitions, real estate management, and IT functions.
Prior to joining B&W, Hetrick held a number of positions at small to mid-sized publicly traded companies, where she led Human Resources, IT and Safety functions, and focused on business strategy, as well as process and operational efficiency improvements.
She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations, Advertising and Applied Communication from Northern Michigan University. She also is an active supporter of the business community and charitable organizations. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Akron Chamber, and is the Co-Founder and Director of The Beacon Principle, a non-profit organization that provides programs and support for those serving in the military and emergency services professions.
Alan Howe
Lead Independent Director
Alan Howe has almost 30 years of extensive hands-on operational expertise combined with corporate finance, business development and corporate governance experience. His broad business background includes exposure to a wide variety of complex business situations within large corporations, financial institutions, start-ups, small-caps and turnarounds.
Currently, Mr. Howe is Managing Partner of Broadband Initiatives, LLC, a small boutique corporate advisory firm that he manages. His specialty is in providing board and C-level leadership working with small-cap and micro- cap companies (both public and private) particularly in turnaround situations. Mr. Howe has served both as a director and as a board chairman in multiple companies in a variety of industries including telecom and wireless equipment, software, IT services, wireless RF services, manufacturing, semiconductors, and storage. In two situations, Mr. Howe was appointed interim CEO of difficult situations where he previously served on the Board of Directors.
Mr. Howe works closely with management of his board companies to provide guidance and direction to create value for shareholders. He also has developed strong relationships with institutional investors and has worked to build a level of trust that he represents their best interests.
He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Illinois and a Master’s of Business Administration and Finance from Indiana University.
Rebecca L. Stahl
Board of Directors
With 25 years’ experience in finance and accounting, Rebecca L. Stahl currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT), an organization that represents and promotes U.S.-based manufacturing technology and its members who design, build, sell, and service the industry. Before joining AMT, she held positions of increasing responsibility at Lightbridge Communications Corporation (LCC), a multinational wireless engineering company, including serving as Chief Financial Officer from 2008 to 2015. While at LCC, she led several financing rounds, senior bank refinancing and M&A transactions that led to an eventual sale of the company in 2015.
Prior to LCC, Ms. Stahl was with BT Infonet, a multinational data communications company, as a senior finance professional supporting a $600 million operation. From 1998-2000, she served in corporate finance for The Walt Disney Company in Burbank, Calif. She started her career at Arthur Anderson LLP serving clients of public and private companies in the real estate and financial services industries.
Ms. Stahl is a certified public accountant. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from The Pennsylvania State University, and a Master of Business Administration from the Anderson School of Management at University of California Los Angeles, with an emphasis in Finance. Her professional affiliations include Women Corporate Directors, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Peter O'Keefe
Advisory Board
Peter O’Keefe is a professional in the financial services industry, an advisor to both privately held and publicly traded companies and a Venture Partner in one of the leading cyber-security investment funds in the United States. He is a recognized national political operative who served as a liaison to the business community in the Clinton White House.
Mr. O’Keefe is a Venture Partner in the private equity firm Paladin Capital Group, a global investment fund with over $1 billion in assets under management and a focus on advanced security technologies and biotechnology. He consults for numerous companies involved in financial services, infrastructure, technology and Big Data seeking guidance on the intersection between capital markets and governments through his company, Capital Management International. He specializes in public policy at the state level. He also is a Partner at one of Washington, D.C.’s leading bipartisan public affairs firms, Forbes-Tate.
He serves on the Board of Directors for Leaf Clean Energy (LEAF.L) and RegScan Corporation.
Mr. O’Keefe has worked on more than a dozen political campaigns, beginning with the Clinton for President Campaign of 1992. He recently served as a member of the 2020 Biden for President Finance Committee and as a National Finance Vice Chair for the Democratic National Committee. He was a five- time National Treasurer for the Democratic Governors Association from 2014-2018, a record, and helped lead the association to its most successful fundraising campaign, raising more than $250 million and picking up eight key governorships. In 2013 he played a leading role in the election of his longtime friend, Terry McAuliffe, as the 72nd Governor of Virginia.
Previously, Mr. O’Keefe was a registered professional with the National Association of Securities Dealers. He served as the Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and as the Director of Major Donor Development for the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation.
Mr. O’Keefe served on The White House staff during the Clinton Administration and spearheaded the President’s effort to coordinate with the business community to pass key sections of the Clinton Economic Program.
He holds degrees from Marist College and the London School of Economics. He resides in Washington D.C. with his wife Sara and their two children.
Eric Powell
Advisory Board
With 25-plus years of energy and infrastructure experience, Eric Powell has a successful record of driving major strategy and transformation in complex situations for corporations, private equity, and governments. He serves as strategic advisor and interim executive in growing top-line revenue, improving bottom-line costs, and stabilizing operations across the broad energy and infrastructure complex (oil, natural gas, power, water, chemical, renewables, and alternative fuels). Partner to executives, boards, investors, and policy makers, he has guided approximately $125 billion in transactions across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Middle East, and Africa.
Currently, he serves as a power market leader in the Enterprise Improvement Practice at the global management consulting firm, AlixPartners. Prior to joining AlixPartners, Mr. Powell was a founding partner at Enovation Partners, Head of B&V’s Strategy & Business Performance, and a principal leader in Booz & Company’s energy practice. Mr. Powell is a frequent speaker and a published author and has presented to industry, technology, and investment forums, including providing expert-witness testimony. He began his career in power generation with TXU Corp. (now Vistra Corp.) and held strategic planning and operational leadership roles across supply, delivery, and customer operations for both natural gas and power markets.
Mr. Powell and his wife, Tai, have two daughters. He has a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Jacksonville State University (Alabama) and is certified in lean business operations from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. He is also founder of his own non-profit, CUE Leadership Institute, Inc.
Homaira Akbari
Advisory Board
Dr. Homaira Akbari is President and CEO of AKnowledge Partners, LLC, a global strategy advisory firm providing services to leading private equity funds and large corporations in the sectors of Internet of Things, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, and FinTech. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Banco Santander (NYSE: SAN) Temenos AG (SWX: TEMN), and Landstar System (NASDAQ: LSTR). She has extensive governance experience and in the past has served on the Board of Directors of Veolia Environment (EN:VIE) and Gemalto N.V. (EN: GTO).
Dr. Akbari has held senior management roles in Fortune 1000 companies including Microsoft, Thales, and Liberty Media subsidiary, Trueposition. Dr. Akbari also has served as the President and CEO of SkyBitz, Inc., a leading provider of remote asset tracking and security solutions. Under her leadership, the company had record performance. She successfully sold SkyBitz to Telular Corporation (NASDAQ: WRLS).
She holds a Ph.D. with honors in particle physics from Tufts University and an MBA with distinction from Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. She is the author of more than 50 scientific articles in international journals, has two patents in IoT and Advertising, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. She has published numerous governance and technology opinion editorials and podcasts.
Throughout her life, Dr. Akbari has been active in and a contributor to many non-profit organizations. She is currently a member of Business Board of Advisors for Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business. Dr. Akbari was the inaugural Chair of the Johns Hopkins University Physics and Astronomy Advisory Council from 2012-2018, and a member since 2009. She has established the Homaira Akbari Fellowship Endowment at Carnegie Mellon University and Akbari-Mack Postdoctoral at the Johns Hopkins University. She is a member of Board of Trustees of FIAF.org, a not-for-profit organization with the mission to promote French culture, art and language.
Brandy Johnson
Chief Technology Officer
Brandy Johnson is Chief Technology Officer, responsible for the development of B&W’s ClimateBright™ suite of decarbonization and hydrogen production technologies, including the deployment, scale-up and commercialization activities of its BrightLoop™ novel hydrogen generation technology. She was named to this position in 2022.
From April 2020 to May 2022, Johnson was Vice President of Global Engineering, responsible for overseeing all service and OEM proposal and project engineering activities throughout B&W’s global operations. Before that, from June 2018 until April 2020, Johnson was Vice President, Global Projects, responsible for executing and delivering new build and aftermarket projects for boiler and environmental equipment customers around the world.
Previous B&W positions included serving as Vice President, Global Project Development, Director, Supply Management, and Team Champion for the company’s Global Competitiveness Initiative. Johnson joined the company in 1995 as a Field Service Engineer.
She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Kent State University, and an Advanced Master Certificate in Integrated Supply Management from Michigan State University’s Executive Development Program. She is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio, a Project Management Institute Certified Project Management Professional, and has completed several advanced leadership development programs, including the 2016 B&W Executive Development Program led by Korn Ferry. She is also a contributing author of the 41st edition of Steam/its generation and use. Published by B&W, it is the world’s longest continually published engineering textbook of its kind.
Naomi Boness
Board of Directors
Dr. Naomi Boness, (Ph.D.), is the Managing Director of the Natural Gas Initiative at Stanford University and Co-Managing Director of the Stanford Hydrogen Initiative. Dr. Boness is an experienced practitioner in the energy sector focused on using her background in reservoir geophysics and technoeconomic modeling to develop technology solutions related to natural gas, hydrogen and decarbonization. In addition to her research, she teaches classes in earth science and energy engineering. She also is passionate about connecting technology developers with industry to accelerate the deployment of new decarbonization technologies at scale.
Prior to Stanford, Dr. Boness held a variety of technical and management positions at Chevron. She is on the Board of Directors at Aemetis, a renewable fuels company, and an advisor to a number of startups in the energy sector. Dr. Boness is a member of the Renewable Natural Gas Coalition Advisory Committee; a member of the Partnership to Address Global Emissions Advisory Council; a member of the Open Hydrogen Initiative Independent Expert Panel; a past invited member of the United Nations Expert Group on Resource Classification; and a past Chair of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Oil and Gas Reserves Committee. As an advocate for women and gender equality, she is proud to be an Ambassador for the Women in Clean Energy, Education and Empowerment (C3E) Initiative.
Dr. Boness holds a Doctorate in Geophysics from Stanford University, a Master’s Degree in Geological Sciences from Indiana University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Geophysics from the University of Leeds.
Dr. Homaira Akbari
Non-Executive Advisor
Dr. Homaira Akbari is CEO of AKnowledge Partners, a global advisory firm specializing in digital transformation and technology sectors of Cybersecurity, IoT, Energy Transition, and FinTech. She serves on the Board of Directors of Banco Santander and Landstar System and is a member of Telefónica Security Advisory Board.
She has held senior management roles in Fortune 1000 companies including Microsoft, Thales, and Liberty Media subsidiary, Trueposition. Dr. Akbari has served as the President and CEO of SkyBitz, Inc., a leading IoT company providing asset tracking and security solutions. Under her leadership, the company had record performance. She successfully sold SkyBitz to Telular Corporation (NASDAQ: WRLS).
She holds a Ph.D. with honors in particle physics from Tufts University and an MBA with distinction from Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. She is the author of more than 50 scientific articles in international journals, has two patents in IoT, and is a frequent speaker in industry conferences. She is a cybersecurity faculty member at the DCRO Risk Governance Institute and a guest lecturer at ecoDa.eu. She has published numerous governance and technology Opinion Editorials and Podcasts, and most recently co-authored the book: The Cyber Savvy Boardroom.
Dr. Homaira Akbari
Non-Executive Advisor
Dr. Homaira Akbari is CEO of AKnowledge Partners, a global advisory firm specializing in digital transformation and technology sectors of Cybersecurity, IoT, Energy Transition, and FinTech. She serves on the Board of Directors of Banco Santander and Landstar System and is a member of Telefónica Security Advisory Board.
She has held senior management roles in Fortune 1000 companies including Microsoft, Thales, and Liberty Media subsidiary, Trueposition. Dr. Akbari has served as the President and CEO of SkyBitz, Inc., a leading IoT company providing asset tracking and security solutions. Under her leadership, the company had record performance. She successfully sold SkyBitz to Telular Corporation (NASDAQ: WRLS).
She holds a Ph.D. with honors in particle physics from Tufts University and an MBA with distinction from Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. She is the author of more than 50 scientific articles in international journals, has two patents in IoT, and is a frequent speaker in industry conferences. She is a cybersecurity faculty member at the DCRO Risk Governance Institute and a guest lecturer at ecoDa.eu. She has published numerous governance and technology Opinion Editorials and Podcasts, and most recently co-authored the book: The Cyber Savvy Boardroom.