UGET - Leadership

01 / Leadership

A team built across the work

The programme requires more than a reactor concept. Its leadership spans the technical, commercial, operational and federal work required to move a project toward deployment.

Chief Executive Officer

Cecil Davis

Leads company strategy, capital relationships and government engagement, setting the direction of the programme across its technical, commercial and federal tracks.

Managing Partner

Dr. Kent Millington

Directs programme management and institutional relationships, with more than thirty-five years in management and new ventures. A retired business executive and professor, he has taught entrepreneurship at Utah Valley University and has served on the Utah Privacy Commission since 2019.

Lead Inventor

Sheldon Hansen

Named inventor on the six granted patents covering the reactor architecture, and originator of the sectional-core design that distinguishes it from grid-scale approaches.

Chief Financial Officer

Michael Kelly

Directs capital formation and project finance. Founder of Investment Science and adjunct professor at Hofstra University's Zarb School of Business, with fourteen years across market risk, structured finance and trading technology at Barclays, UBS, Mizuho and Citi.

Chief Operating Officer

Ryan Schomuk

Oversees operations and programme execution, bringing more than twenty years in advanced manufacturing. That background matters directly here: a transportable reactor is a manufactured product, and the production questions arrive alongside the engineering ones rather than after them.

Chief of Staff

Cory Krupinsky

Coordinates programme management, partner relationships and internal operations. Brings a commercial real estate background to the siting and asset side of project development, where land control, site diligence and counterparty negotiation determine whether a project has somewhere to be built.

02 / Advisors

Specific expertise for specific questions

Technical and commercial advisors engaged on specific areas of the programme. Interests are disclosed where they exist.

Scientific Advisor

Dr. Yi-Tung Chen

Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas · ASME Fellow

Director of the UNLV Center for Energy Research and an ASME Fellow, with a doctorate from the University of Utah and a minor in nuclear engineering. His research spans computational fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, nuclear energy and corrosion modelling, the last of which bears directly on the materials question that constrains every molten salt programme. He has served as principal or co-principal investigator on more than $16M in funded research and is the author or co-author of roughly 180 peer-reviewed papers.

Dr. Chen holds an equity interest in Utah Green Energy Technologies, LLC.

Advisor

Dan Cohen

Materials and commercialisation

Advises on advanced materials and commercialisation pathways, with particular focus on surface treatment and materials performance in demanding service environments.

Advisors contribute in defined technical and commercial capacities. Their participation reflects engagement with specific aspects of the programme and does not represent an institutional endorsement by any university, laboratory or employer.

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The programme needs more than one discipline.

UGET is bringing technical, commercial, operational and federal experience together around a single energy-production programme.

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