Senior Vice President
Nuclear Power Plants

As Senior Vice President, Nuclear Power Plants, Dan Lipman is responsible for managing the global deployment of new nuclear units. Currently, the implementation of current contracts for Korea and supporting new plant builds in China and the U.S. are areas of major focus. He assumed this position in May 2005.

Before assuming his Nuclear Power Plants role as senior vice president, Mr. Lipman was senior vice president of Operational Excellence, where he led the Westinghouse behavioral and operational change initiative called Customer 1^st. Mr. Lipman drove Customer 1^st to organizational levels, achieving self-sufficiency, new performance standards and placement of Customer 1^st leaders. Mr. Lipman assumed this position of senior vice president, Operational Excellence, in August 2004.

Before this position, Mr. Lipman was vice president, Customer Relations and Sales North America. In this capacity, Mr. Lipman was responsible for strategic relationship management, commercial affairs, sales and alliances for nuclear operating plant customers. Under his leadership, U.S. performance for Westinghouse reached more than $1 billion of new orders in the U.S. alone.

Before his vice president role, Mr. Lipman served as president of Westinghouse Asia. With regional duties for China, South Korea and Taiwan, and living in Beijing for four years, he was responsible for relationship management and sales of Westinghouse and BNFL nuclear engineering, equipment and services to operating nuclear plants, plants under construction and new plants in those markets. The implementation of joint ventures, technology transfer and partnerships with local organizations were important aspects of this activity, as was establishing and developing host country government and embassy relationships.

Mr. Lipman's U.S. experience has been exclusively in project management and customer interfacing assignments. He spent approximately seven years at customer plant sites supporting construction, start-up and operations, and furnished project management and technical support to key customer accounts for Westinghouse products and services at operating plants. Other assignments have included sales support roles for Combustion Engineering plants and technology transfer to European companies and field assignments in Korea and the Philippines.

Before joining Westinghouse, Mr. Lipman was a research associate at a Washington, D.C. consulting firm for nuclear non-proliferation, reprocessing, waste management and fuel-cycle policy issues. He also interned at the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency.

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