Bill has extensive experience in the global energy industry, where he has served clients in Asia, Europe, and North America on a broad range of issues, including enterprise performance transformations, integrated operations, capital productivity, and risk management. The majority of Bill’s work focuses on helping energy and industrial companies unlock the full potential of their assets and workforce, creating a culture of performance excellence.

Examples of Bill’s recent client work include the following:

• leading several enterprise-wide performance transformations of electric utilities, unlocking significant improvements in shareholder value through improved asset performance, cost management, capital deployment, and talent
• leading performance and health improvement efforts at multiple fleet and independent nuclear operators, including targeted support, comprehensive transformations, and recovery efforts
• spearheading capital project improvements, ranging from the turnaround of a lifetime refurbishment upgrade project in deep regulatory distress to enterprise portfolio and individual project optimization efforts to achieve strategic targets
• delivering cross-operational transformations of several fossil power facilities, including revenue optimization, cost reduction, risk management, and culture improvement
• leading improvement efforts at several oil and gas, chemical, and mining enterprises, supporting asset and capital productivity, enterprise risk management, and organizational health
• directing multiple strategic economic evaluations for value creation efforts across the energy value chain, informing owner and investor decisions
• developing a comprehensive energy strategy for a US region, focusing on building and sustaining long-term competitiveness in the global energy sector

As the global leader of our work in the nuclear energy industry, Bill has accelerated our research and knowledge development in this area over the past several years to help the industry meet this generational moment. In this capacity, he routinely works in partnership with owners, operators, and investors across the value chain to navigate the significant disruption in this sector as one of the McKinsey Platform for Climate Technology. Before joining McKinsey, Bill held leadership positions at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) and Duke Energy. He also served in the U.S. Navy’s submarine force.