Jeffrey Miller

Senior Vice President of Business Development at TerraPower

Bellevue, Washington, United States

About

Experience

  • TerraPower (Remote)
    • Senior Vice President Business Development
      Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

      •Responsible for scoping, direction and growth of market development activities and strategy--domestic and international •Grow business development organization, including market development. and marketing and communication-related activities •Develop suppliers, establish strategic supply chain relationships •Develop cost reduction strategies, including supply chain •Create commercial deal structures •Cultivate new investors, manage investor relationships •Develop strategic partnerships, inclusive of utilities, hyperscalers, and industrial customers •Lead cross-functional teams to identify, develop, and secure new business opportunities

    • Vice President of Business Development
      Jan 2025 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo

      •Responsible for scoping, direction and growth of business development organization, market  development. and marketing and communication-related activities •Integrate market development and marketing/communications •Negotiate and managing strategic supply chain relationships •Develop supply chain strategy •Cultivate new investors and managing investor relationships •Develop strategic and unconventional partnerships •Lead cross-functional teams to identify, develop, and secure new business opportunities

    • Senior Director, Business Development
      Jul 2024 - Jan 2025 · 7 mos

      • Responsible for scoping, direction and growth of business development organization and market development activities • Managing strategic supply chain strategy and relationships • Developing strategic and unconventional partnerships • Cultivating new investors and managing investor relationships • Leading cross-functional teams to identify, develop, and secure new business opportunities

  • Representative Director--Centrus Japan at Centrus Energy Corp.
    Aug 2016 - Jan 2023 · 6 yrs 6 mos

    • Opened Centrus Japan office to grow and maintain market share by engaging with senior corporate clients and industry representatives • Manage contract activities in Japan and support sales in excess of USD $90 million annually • Expand the Company’s business in Japan and Asia through new approaches and relationship development • Monitor, analyze and report clean energy policy and market developments in Japan and Asian energy markets • Develop and build relationships with clients, and key government, political, research, academic and private sector officials to enhance business initiatives and collaborations • Create communications strategies and messaging for use in engaging current and potential clients • Advocate for business and policy positions, and present business overviews and positions in conferences and meetings

  • Director, DOE Japan Office at US Department of Energy
    Jul 2011 - Aug 2016 · 5 yrs 2 mos

    • Managed DOE Japan Office at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, including budget and Japanese staff • Represented DOE and its Program Offices in Japan at all levels, including on behalf of the Secretary • Monitored, analyzed and reported Japanese electricity market, renewable power, grid-scale batteries and other developments to senior DOE officials • Recommended new areas of cooperation for DOE and its national laboratories in to address gaps in renewables, environmental and low carbon technologies, and low carbon materials research and development • Supported COP 21 process and Japan's participation in the Breakthrough Energy Coalition •. Recommended climate change mitigation strategies and system approaches to Japanese Government and built support for such strategies with DOE and Japanese stakeholders • Advocated and aligned for clean energy market policy system changes to Japan’s feed-in-tariff and other market mechanisms to support widespread introduction of renewable power with Japanese Government ministries and Japanese utilities by increasing deployments and lowering costs • Coordinated with Japanese and US NGOs, thinktanks and other research organizations on strategies for pushing Japan to promote and prioritize renewable power • Developed and built relationships with key Japanese government, research, academic, think tanks, media, industry associations, and private sector officials to enhance climate change collaborations • Presented U.S. clean energy policies at international and domestic conferences and meetings • Established and supported relationships in Japan for DOE national laboratories, including the sole contract vehicle with the Tokyo Electric Power Company for Fukushima support

  • Program and Project Manager at Battelle/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Jan 2009 - Jul 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • Initiated, executed, and managed cyber security critical infrastructure protection program for DOE OE in the Middle East, including proposal preparation, planning, strategy, and cost estimating • Created and managed domestic-focused cyber/physical infrastructure protection initiatives utilizing PNNL internal funds • Managed multiple deployments of radiation detection monitoring systems in Asia, Europe and the Middle East with average budgets of USD $15 million per project and 25 matrixed staff per project • Organized and led inter-laboratory and contractor teams in business and project planning, site surveys, document and design reviews, equipment deployments, acceptance testing, and configuration control • Presented nuclear safeguards and security programs for joint NNSA/NRC nuclear infrastructure capacity building programs in developing countries • Monitored project resources and expenditures of PNNL and participating U.S. national laboratories in all projects and reported to Clients on monthly basis

  • Department of Energy (Washington, DC)
    • Regional Manager
      Apr 2004 - Jan 2009 · 4 yrs 10 mos

      • Assessed high-end technologies and operational process changes for complex seaport terminal operations and made key decisions on technology applications and security equipment deployment designs • Developed and implemented regional and country-specific strategies to secure partnerships for detecting illicit trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials • Successfully negotiated agreements with 7 foreign governments and managed highly sensitive program implementation and outreach efforts in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East • Supervised inter-disciplinary teams of Federal, laboratory and contractor staff in executing deployment projects; reviewed bids, managed and negotiated cost/schedule arrangements with government contractors

    • Foreign Affairs Officer
      Sep 2001 - Apr 2004 · 2 yrs 8 mos

       Successfully negotiated (on team) a ten-country, multilateral agreement for cleanup of nuclear waste in the Russian Federation currently used as the basis for the Cooperation Threat Reduction Program  Coordinated (on team) efforts to shut down unsafe RBMK nuclear power plants in Eastern Europe  Created a liability experts group at the International Atomic Energy Agency to promote U.S. nuclear liability interests  Supported transmittal of the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC) to the United States Senate