Clayton Scott

Chief Commercial Officer
NuScale
Biography: 

Mr. Scott leads the commercial global business development activities, including the sales, and marketing and communications functions for all NuScale products and services in the U.S. and abroad. Scott joins NuScale with an extensive business development background and mort than 40 years of professional experience in the nuclear sector including in business development, construction management , and the startup and operation of nuclear power plants.

Formally, Mr. Scott was the Senior Vice President – Global Sales, Deputy of Global I&C Business Unit for Framatome is co-responsible for the global P&L within the group and a global footprint of more than 2000 staff. Prior to Framatome, Scott was a SVP and the Chief Nuclear Officer for Schneider Electric, responsible for the company’s global nuclear organization with offices and facilities globally. Notably - responsible for one of the largest Digital Control Room efforts in nuclear, delivering eight new units in China - consisting of Control Room Design, Safety and Non-Safety Controls Systems.

Mr. Scott was the General Chair of American Nuclear Society’s NPIC & HMIT 2017 conference.

He has more than 40 years’ experience in managing nuclear utility contracts globally, including vast expertise in executive management, licensing and compliance; M&A; I&C design; both in startup and operation. Before accepting this position, Scott served as the VP of Invensys’s nuclear business in North America, responsible for business development, strategy, risk management, governance, and project execution. Before joining Invensys, he was President of CRS Engineering, a multi-discipline engineering and design-consulting firm.

Scott is an active member of the NEI Executive Committee for Digital I&C. He was appointed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to chair a taskforce on harmonizing digital licensing issues globally and the University of Tennessee Nuclear Engineering Program Advisory Board.

Scott holds a BSEE from the University of California, Irvine, and began his career as an I&C technologist for Ontario Hydro, where he was involved in commissioning and start-up of four CANDU units at the Pickering Nuclear Power Station in Ontario, Canada.