Westinghouse announced it will reorganized a portion of its business and made two high-level executive appointments this week.
On Tuesday, the company named Mark Marano as president of the Americas Region, effective May 31. According to a Westinghouse release, he was previously a vice president for Areva in Charlotte, N.C., and has also worked for GE-Hitachi and American Electric Power.
On Thursday, the company then announced that Jeffrey Benjamin will head its new nuclear power plants division. It will combine the existing "nuclear power plants project delivery" and "nuclear power plant business and project development" segments into a single entity within Westinghouse. Deva Chari, who headed the project delivery segment, will now focus on the China market while Sandy Rupprecht will continue to lead new project development efforts.
Benjamin last worked for Rolls-Royce, where he headed nuclear services in North America, England and France after positions at CH2M Hill and Exelon.