Westinghouse Electric CEO to leave

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Westinghouse Electric Co. President/CEO Patrick Fragman will be leaving his post after five years at the helm of the Cranberry Township-based nuclear company.

Fragman announced Thursday he would be departing the roles on March 31 to spend more time in Europe with his family. He’ll remain as an adviser several more months and be succeeded by Dan Sumner, who had been operating plant services president, as interim president/CEO. Sumner has been named deputy CEO now and will lead the company in the interim as Westinghouse Electric’s board of directors looks for Fragman’s permanent replacement.

Fragman has been president and CEO of Westinghouse Electric since 2019, a time when the nuclear company not only completed its long-under-development AP1000 reactors at Plant Vogtle, which were the first new nuclear reactors to go into commercial use in the United States in more than 30 years. At the same time, Fragman led the company through the development of other projects for the future, including new reactors like the AP300 and the eVinci microreactor based on Westinghouse’s AP1000 design.

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