Robert (Rob) Sweeney is seasoned engineer, entrepreneur, and executive with 40 years of experience building opportunities, companies, and major projects. Along the way he has built businesses in the engineering, consulting, and technical services sectors focused on energy and infrastructure projects for commercial and governmental clients, as a founder, owner, and CEO. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sweeney was with Southern Technical Services and EBASCO Services where he managed projects and services for US and international clients. He is currently the Co—Founder and Head of Energy & Infrastructure at nXSolutions, involved in advisory and development of clean energy and infrastructure projects in the U.S. and abroad.
In the area of nuclear energy, Mr. Sweeney has been involved in almost every aspect of nuclear power plant development, design, project management, construction, operations, and back-end fuel cycle management. He held leading management roles in securing U.S. NRC licenses for ~6,200 MWe of nuclear designs, including directing the regulatory affairs office in Washington, DC that secured the South Texas Project’s nuclear operating licenses. Mr. Sweeney is a member of two International Trade Administration (ITA) Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Working Groups (Europe, Southeast Asia) and recently served on the U.S. Secretary of Commerce’s Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee for three terms (2018-2024). In other associated capacities, Mr. Sweeney sits on Nuclear Energy Institute’s Construction Best Practices Task Force and the New Nuclear Deployment Working Group, as well as a delegate representative to the Board of the Utilities Service Alliance (USA) – a nuclear utility group representing 9 utilities, operating 43 reactors.
Mr. Sweeney also brings years of expertise working in and around Washington DC with proven know-how on national energy policies, regulatory and legislative matters, trade and international affairs. He studied engineering at UMass|Dartmouth and economics at Georgetown University. He and his family reside in the Washington, DC area.
