Concentric Senior Vice President to Present at the 2012 Electric Power Expo

May 15-17, 2012 Baltimore, Maryland

J. Frank Russell, Senior Vice President, will present at the 2012 Electric Power Expo on May 16, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Russell will be speaking during the "Post Fukushima" session on "The Market for Nuclear Power Plants Post Fukushima".

The Post Fukushima session will review lessons learned from the Japan Fukushima Reactor Events of March 2011. The Fukushima earthquake and tsunami events, plant shutdown and coping, and recovery activities will be reviewed. The US nuclear industry is responding aggressively with a comprehensive program of plant reviews and upgrades to address Fukushima lessons learned which will be reviewed.

For More Information on the Event, Contact:

Maggie Connolly
mconnolly@ceadvisors.com
508.263.6236

Or visit the conference website: http://www.electricpowerexpo.com/

J. Frank Russell is a financial professional with 30 years of experience as a banker and advisor to the electric power and natural gas industries. Mr. Russell has advised companies in the US as well as in Europe in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, financial and corporate strategy, regulatory issues, dividend policy, equity, debt, and structured finance, and privatization. He spent 14 years with Bankers Trust Company in New York as both a commercial and investment banker to the power industry and managed the bank’s Western Energy Group. Following that, he worked in the investment banking group of Merrill Lynch & Co. in New York and London, where he headed the firm’s European utility investment banking practice. Prior to joining Concentric in 2002, he worked for Mercer Management Consulting in that firm’s utilities consulting practice and for Enermetrix. Mr. Russell has B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. Mr. Russell is a member of the faculty of the University of Idaho Utility Executive Course.