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EnergySolutions Announces New Chief Financial Officer
| Source: EnergySolutions
SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwire - November 30, 2009) - EnergySolutions, Inc. (NYSE : ES ),
a leading provider of services to the global nuclear industry, announced
today that Philip O. Strawbridge, its Chief Financial Officer, is resigning
from the company effective December 31, 2009 to pursue personal business
interests.
Mr. Strawbridge, who played a key role in the company's initial public
offering and has been instrumental in integrating the nine companies
brought together since 2005 to provide EnergySolutions' broad range of
global nuclear services, will be succeeded as Chief Financial Officer by
Mark C. McBride, the company's current Senior Vice President and Corporate
Controller.
"Philip brought a wealth of nuclear industry experience to the executive
management group and has provided expert guidance and judgment in the
critical early years of the company," said Steve Creamer, CEO and Chairman
of EnergySolutions. "We have great confidence in Mark, who has been
heavily involved with all financial matters for the company and has been
primarily responsible for EnergySolutions' accounting and financial
reporting activities as a publicly traded company."
EnergySolutions offers customers a full range of integrated services and
solutions, including nuclear operations, characterization, decommissioning,
decontamination, site closure, transportation, nuclear materials
management, processing, recycling, and disposition of nuclear waste, and
research and engineering services across the nuclear fuel cycle.
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current expectations of future events based on certain assumptions and
include any statement that does not directly relate to any historical or
current fact. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future
performance and the Company's actual results may differ significantly from
the results discussed in the forward-looking statements.