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A Conversation with J. Clay Sell, CEO of X-energy: Redefining Nuclear Energy

November 28 @ 12:30 pm 1:30 pm CDT

J. Clay Sell
Chief Executive Officer of X-energy

Clay Sell serves as Chief Executive Officer of X-energy. Clay has deep professional expertise across many sectors of the international and U.S. energy industry developed through his service in senior level positions in the private sector and government. Sell joined X-energy as CEO in January 2019 and has led the company through a period of dramatic transformation and growth in product development investment, U.S. government funding awards, private capital raised, and customer commitments.

From 2008-2018, Clay was the president of Hunt Energy Horizons, LLC, the renewable energy subsidiary of Hunt Consolidated, Inc., a multinational energy, real estate, and investment corporation controlled by the Ray L. Hunt family of Dallas. Previously, Clay held positions for 14 years in the U.S. government, as Deputy Secretary of Energy in the George W. Bush Administration from 2005-2008, as a Special Assistant to the President from 2003-2005, and in senior staff positions in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Clay holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas School of Law and a BBA in Accounting from Texas Tech University.

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For more information: https://energy.utexas.edu/events/conversation-j-clay-sell-ceo-x-energy-redefining-nuclear-energy

Location:
The University of Texas at Austin Engineering Education and Research Center (EER)
2501 Speedway, Room 3.646
Austin, Texas 78712 United States
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