Board of Directors

Katherine is Chair of the Terra Innovatum Board of Directors; appointed in October 2025. She is a seasoned nuclear energy executive with over 40 years of leadership in finance and senior management. She currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of Solestiss LLC, a management consulting company in the energy sector.

Previously, she was President and CEO of Framatome. During her over 20 years at Framatome, she held multiple leadership roles in the U.S. and at the company’s global headquarters in Paris, including CFO for North American operations and several global business groups. Prior to Framatome, Ms. Williams held financial management positions at DuPont, Westinghouse, and Duke Energy. She has been recognized with the French Medal of Honor for civil service to the nuclear industry in France and the U.S. Department of State Meritorious Honor award for her support to government agencies.

Williams is a results-driven, forward-thinking executive with extensive experience in corporate leadership, governance, and strategic advisory roles across both government and commercial nuclear sectors. She holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the College of Charleston and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

Alessandro co-founded Terra Innovatum and has served as CEO since inception and has been a member of its Board of Directors since October 2025. He has founded and served as President of Nuclear and Industrial Engineering, srl (NINE), where he also led the Plant Thermal-Hydraulics Area focused on safety analysis and licensing of nuclear power plants. He serves as Chair of the OECD/NEA Expert Group on Reactor Core Thermal-Hydraulics (EGTHM) and is an Industry Professor at McMaster University, Canada. He has managed international safety and licensing projects for nuclear facilities in Argentina, the UK, Finland, Brazil and Poland, including leading the safety accident analysis for Atucha-2 NPP for the Argentinean utility, the Hanikhivhi NPP for the Finnish utility and recently the independent safety analysis of the entire Final Safety Analysis Report of Westinghouse AP1000 for the Polish utility.

He has contributed as an expert to IAEA safety review and training programs and is the scientific investigator for NINE on several IAEA research projects. He has co-authored numerous scientific publications and the IAEA SSG-2 guidance. He has also organized major conferences such as NURETH 15, BEPU2018, and BEPU2024.

Alessandro earned his PhD in Nuclear and Industrial Safety from the “Leonardo da Vinci” Doctoral Engineering School in 2008, following over nine years with the Nuclear Research Group of San Piero a Grado (GRNSPG), University of Pisa.

Cesare is Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs at Terra Innovatum. He has served as a member of its Board of Directors since October 2025. He has over 30 years of experience in nuclear engineering, specializing in safety analysis, regulatory strategy, and advanced simulation technologies.

In 2013, he founded FPoliSolutions, a firm providing risk-informed safety analysis and regulatory support to nuclear and green energy sectors, working with advanced reactor developers. The company has received multiple DOE grants to develop digital platforms like FPoli Agile Application Platform (FPoli-AAP) to improve safety assessments.

Previously, he worked at Westinghouse Electric Company, where he pioneered the Full Spectrum LOCA™ methodology and ASTRUM™, key innovations in best-estimate safety analysis now widely adopted in the industry. He played a vital role in licensing the AP1000 reactor globally. He is a named inventor on patents in safety technology and has authored over 100 technical publications.

He has received multiple George Westinghouse awards recognizing his leadership and innovation. Cesare holds a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from Penn State University and a Master’s from Politecnico di Milano.

Massimo is Partner, Chief Strategy Officer, and SOLO Safeguards Director at Terra Innovatum and has been a member of its Board of Directors since October 2025, bringing over 35 years of global leadership in nuclear innovation, safety, and strategy. He is an advisor to TRANSMUTEX, and lectures at universities in France and Italy.

Dr. Morichi holds multiple international patents in nuclear measurement technology. He has served as EVP at CAEN, an electronic equipment manufacturer, since 2016. Between 2005 and 2016, he held senior executive roles including EVP Director Global R&D and Innovation at AREVA Group, VP R&D CTO at CANBERRA Industries (U.S.), and Group Leader for amajor site remediation project in Japan. Massimo has led the development of over 65 nuclear measurement solutions, advanced safeguards systems for the IAEA, and directed the EU MICADO project for nuclear waste characterization.

Massimo began his career in reactor core physics and reactivity transient studies at ENEA, later contributing to emergency response for the incident in Eastern Europe and teaching at the Atomic Defense Laboratory. He holds a PhD in Nuclear Physics from the University “La Sapienza” of Rome and is a Certified Radiation Protection Expert.

Rex is a senior finance and legal executive with extensive private and public company experience, including two public offerings, over $2 billion in capital raised, over 30 acquisitions, and private and public board service.

Most recently, Mr. Jackson served as CFO of ChargePoint Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CHPT), a provider of home, commercial and fleet charging infrastructure solutions for electric vehicles. Since 2005, he served in a variety of financial leadership roles, including CFO of Gigamon Inc., Rocket Fuel Inc., Symyx Technologies, Inc., and acting CFO of Synopsys, Inc.

Prior, he held General Counsel and other executive positions with Avago Technologies Limited, AdForce, Inc., Read-Rite Corporation and Kennedy-Wilson, Inc.

Mr. Jackson served on the board of directors of EMCORE Corporation from 2015 to 2024 and Energous Corporation from 2014 to 2019. Mr. Jackson holds a B.A. from Duke University and a J.D. from Stanford University.

Michael brings over 40 years of leadership experience spanning the energy sector, supporting the advancement of innovative solutions as current Chair of the World Energy Council, CEO Emeritus of Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), a $500 million global organization focused on addressing energy reliability and safety challenges in the U.S., and advisor to venture capital firm Lime Rock New Energy. Since his appointment as President and CEO of EPRI in 2010, Dr. Howard led the development of technological innovations related to electricity production, delivery, and consumption, including advancements in nuclear power, renewable energy, energy storage, and electric vehicles.

From 1999 to 2005, Dr. Howard was the President and CEO of EPRI PEAC Corporation, a technology-driven power electronics company that offered power quality solutions to large industrial customers and electric utility companies, which was acquired by EPRI in 1999. In 1989, Dr. Howard co-founded Scientific Imaging Solutions, Inc., a technology company specializing in advanced image processing systems for automated microscopic material and biological image analysis.

From 1992 to 1999, Dr. Howard joined Beta Development Corporation, a venture capital firm that provided equity and debt investment to early-stage tech companies while serving as an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee, where he taught various master’s and Ph.D. courses in Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Dr. Howard earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, his M.S. in Business and Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee’s College of Engineering, focusing his dissertation on advanced artificial intelligence.

Peter is a nuclear engineering, licensing, and fuel expert and former Vice President of Regulatory, Quality and Public Affairs at Kairos Power with more than 40 years of professional experience. Since joining Kairos Power in 2018, Mr. Hastings led teams responsible for licensing and siting activities, reliability engineering, quality assurance, nuclear safeguards and security, internal and external communications and community engagement, and government affairs.

Prior to joining Kairos, Mr. Hastings founded The Hastings Group in 2015, a management and regulatory advisory firm, supporting the Electric Power Research Institute, the Nuclear Energy Institute, the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Southern Company, and several advanced reactor developers. He also held previous positions with Generation mPower, Duke Energy, and NuStart Energy Development. He has served on the US Nuclear Industry Council and was Chairman of its Advanced Reactor Working Group, was Chair of the Nuclear Energy Institute’s Advanced Reactor Regulatory Working Group, Vice Chair of the World Nuclear Association’s CORDEL Working Group and Chair of its Small Modular Reactor Task Force, Chair of the US High-Temperature Reactor Technology Working Group, and appointed member of the US Chamber of Commerce Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee.

Mr. Hastings earned his B.S. in nuclear engineering from NC State University and is a registered Professional Engineer in North and South Carolina.