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Philip G. (Phil) Sewell is senior vice president of American Centrifuge and Russian HEU at USEC Inc. He is responsible for the American Centrifuge program implementation of the Russian HEU (highly enriched uranium) contract international trade issues and specific strategies related to identifying new business opportunities. Mr. Sewell joined USEC in 1993. Before assuming his current title he was vice president for corporate development and international trade and security. Additional responsibilities that Mr. Sewell has had at USEC include management of R&D programs for the American Centrifuge and SILEX laser technologies.
For five years prior to joining USEC Mr. Sewell served as deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Energy (DOE) where he was responsible for the overall management of the uranium enrichment activities. He maintained a market leadership position for the business in a highly competitive no-growth market completed the successful demonstration of a promising laser enrichment process and represented the government in negotiating a $12 billion purchase of uranium derived from dismantled Russian nuclear weapons.
From 1975 to 1987 Mr. Sewell held positions of increasing responsibility in DOE’s uranium enrichment program. He started as a program analyst/production engineer in 1975. He then became director of marketing in 1978 and director of the Office of Marketing Strategic Planning and Technology Development in 1986. Prior to joining DOE Mr. Sewell spent seven years as a manager/engineer with the Department of Defense where he performed analyses of rocket propulsion technology developed and implemented plans to market engineering services to other government agencies and NATO countries and served as a naval technical representative to NATO.
Mr. Sewell earned a master of science degree in business administration from George Washington University and a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland. | 