The Indian Point Energy Center Leadership Team
We’d like you to meet some of our leadership team. These five individuals have more than 150 years of combined energy experience, the vast majority of which is in the nuclear industry.
Entergy has a well-earned reputation of hiring excellent individuals to run its facilities. The leaders listed here are just a few of them.
- John Herron, President and Chief Nuclear Officer
- John A. Ventosa, Site Vice President, Indian Point Energy Center
- Larry Coyle, GM of Plant Operations, Indian Point Energy Center
John Herron
President and Chief Nuclear Officer
Entergy Nuclear
John Herron is the president, CEO and chief nuclear officer of Entergy Nuclear, responsible for Entergy's nuclear plants located in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Michigan, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, as well as the company's management services to the Cooper Nuclear Station for the State of Nebraska.
He previously served as Entergy's senior vice president for nuclear operations handling the operational side of fleet management. Herron joined Entergy in February 2001 as vice president, operations at Waterford 3 Nuclear Station in Killona, Louisiana. He then moved to New York as the senior vice president of Indian Point Energy Center in February 2002.
Herron began his career in nuclear operations in 1979 at Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation. Positions there included technical services superintendent, operations manager, technical program manager, shift supervisor, and supervisory control room operator. In 1994, he moved to Brownville, Nebraska to become plant manager at Nebraska Public Power District's Cooper Nuclear Station.
Herron then joined Tennessee Valley Authority as plant manager at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., from October 1996 through July 1999. From July 1999 to February 2001, Herron served as site vice president at TVA's Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Decatur, Alabama.
Prior to his career in utilities, he served in the U.S. Navy from 1972 to 1978. He was attached to the USS Tullibee and the SIC NPTU Windsor, where he was an instructor at the Nuclear Submarine Prototype School.
Herron holds a bachelor's degree in business management from Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire.
Herron currently serves on the board of directors for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO and on the Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee (NSIAC) of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI).
John A. Ventosa
Site Vice President, Indian Point Energy Center
Entergy Nuclear
John Ventosa was named Site Vice President for Entergy’s Indian Point Energy Center in December 2011.
Mr. Ventosa joined Indian Point in 1991 as a system engineer for Con Edison, and has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility.
Following Entergy’s purchase of Indian Point Unit 2 from Con Edison in 2001, Ventosa held a variety of roles including operations manager at IPEC, and assisted in combining units 2 and 3 into a single-site operation.
More recently, Ventosa was general manager, engineering for the Entergy Nuclear northeast fleet of plant and vice president, operations support for the Entergy Nuclear fleet. In that position he was instrumental in establishing an engineering pipeline and providing standardization to the engineering organization.
Mr. Ventosa is certified on both boiling water and pressurized water reactors, and prior to joining Entergy, held positions in training, maintenance and operations support.
Prior to joining Indian Point, he worked with General Public Utilities Nuclear Corporation at Oyster Creek. He holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Manhattan College and a master of business administration degree from Monmouth College.
Larry Coyle
General Manager of Plant Operations
Entergy Nuclear
Entergy Nuclear has named Lawrence M. Coyle, a 29-year nuclear industry veteran, general manager of plant operations at Indian Point Energy Center. In his new position Coyle is responsible for the safe operation of units 2 and 3.
Coyle began his career with Exelon at Dresden Nuclear Power Station as an engineer in 1982. He moved on to achieve the license of Senior Reactor Operator and held leadership positions of field supervisor, main control room supervisor and shift manager. He has also served as the mechanical maintenance manager and work management director at Dresden. Most recently Coyle was the plant manager at Braidwood Nuclear Power Station where the organization realized its best safety, human performance and collective radiation exposure results.
Coyle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana and a Master's in Business Administration, with honors, from the University of Chicago. He also holds a Senior Reactor Operator license from NRC. He is a member of the American Nuclear Society and has served as a board member for Big Brother and Big Sisters.
