About HGP Intelligent Energy

HGP Intelligent Energy is a Texas-based energy and technology development company focused on repurposing proven nuclear propulsion technology for commercial power generation.

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HGP Intelligent Energy is a Texas-based energy and technology development company focused on repurposing proven nuclear propulsion technology for commercial power generation.

HGP is a leading energy infrastructure and storage resource developer that brings decades of market knowledge to deploy investment-grade assets to power grids, accelerating the energy transition. The HGP team and founders have decades of deep domain experience in commodity, land development, transmission, engineering, finance, trading, and risk management.

Gregory Forero

Founder & CEO

  • Co-founder and CEO of HGP Storage and Highgate Power (distributed generation companies) with over 25 years of experience in the energy sector
  • Corporate career spanned senior roles at several financial institutions and large energy merchants (UBS AG, Williams, Constellation, TXU)
  • Co-managed 4 GW of CAISO generation assets through deregulation (1998)
  • Managed the deregulation of ERCOT for incumbent utility TXU with 18 GW of generation assets and load (from 2001)
  • As Head of Energy Derivatives at UBS, Greg managed a team of traders and quants, modeling and taking positions in wholesale electricity markets across the United States (2007)
  • Developed DER assets in ERCOT since 2013, providing reliability in areas dominated by wind generation
  • MSc, Financial Mathematics, from the University of Chicago; BA, Economics, Wesleyan University

Chris Stillwell

Vice President, Strategic Finance & Capital Markets
  • Chris Stillwell oversees strategic finance, M&A, and capital markets activities for HGP Intelligent Energy, driving the financial strategy behind HGP's advanced nuclear development programs.
  • Prior to HGP, Chris was an Investment Banking Associate at Bank of America in the Natural Resources & Energy Transition group, where he executed multi-billion-dollar M&A and capital markets transactions across the energy sector, including acquisition financings and capital raises for energy transition companies.
  • Before Wall Street, Chris spent three years at Kearney in Dubai advising government and corporate clients on M&A integration and organizational strategy, and four years as a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer, where he led 30 personnel and managed $27MM in defense assets including unmanned aircraft systems.
  • Chris holds an MBA from Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business and a BA in International Affairs from George Washington University's Elliott School.
  • He is a FINRA-licensed securities professional (SIE, Series 79, Series 63).

Arvind Kumar

Senior Technical Lead, AI
  • Arvind Kumar leads HGP Intelligent Energy's artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives, developing advanced computational tools and AI-driven models to optimize nuclear reactor performance, safety analysis, and energy market operations.
  • Arvind brings over 25 years of experience at the intersection of aerospace simulation, quantitative modeling, and software engineering.
  • Most recently at NASA Johnson Space Center, he served as a Modeling and Simulation Engineer on the Artemis program, developing guidance, navigation, and control algorithms for the SpaceX Starship and Blue Origin MK2 lunar landers and earning an individual Excellence Award for hardware-software integration.
  • His deep expertise in numerical methods, Monte Carlo simulation, optimization algorithms, and MATLAB combined with extensive experience building real-time systems in C, C++, and Python directly supports HGP's GPU-accelerated nuclear thermal-hydraulic simulation and AI surrogate modeling platforms.
  • Prior to NASA, Arvind built high-frequency trading systems at UBS and developed quantitative models for electricity and energy commodity markets including PJM, MISO, ERCOT, and CAISO experience directly relevant to HGP's grid-integrated nuclear power strategy.
  • He holds a Master of Science in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a Master of Engineering in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Thomas Donnelly

Nuclear Operations Engineer
  • Thomas Donnelly brings over nine years of hands-on U.S. Navy nuclear reactor experience to HGP Intelligent Energy, providing direct operational expertise in naval reactor systems that is foundational to HGP's Medium Naval-Derived Reactor (MNDR) program.
  • As Lead Reactor Technician aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), Thomas led 86 sailors in the Reactor Controls Division, overseeing operations, maintenance, and troubleshooting of nuclear instrumentation and control systems across two reactor plants during multiple sea trials and Pacific deployments including the first-in-class installation of a critical Reactor Safety system.
  • He conducted extensive reactor instrumentation maintenance during Docking Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA) and set maintenance standards and quality/efficacy protocols for all reactor plant practices under his supervision.
  • A graduate of the Naval Nuclear Power School and Prototype program (MTS 626) in Charleston, SC where he completed 600+ hours of advanced training in reactor physics, thermodynamics, electrical theory, and instrumentation Thomas was selected as Crew A Lead and was the first from his crew to achieve full qualification.
  • He currently serves as Assistant Training Officer at Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC), managing training compliance across multiple Naval vessel platforms.
  • His deep knowledge of naval reactor plant control and instrumentation, safety systems, and maintenance operations directly informs HGP's approach to translating proven naval nuclear technology into land-based commercial power generation.
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