Steven Hellman is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of TerraPower. He came to TerraPower after a 35-year career in investment banking, business and law. He has significant expertise and experience globally in mergers & acquisitions, public and private debt and equity capital raising, corporate restructuring and project and infrastructure finance.

Prior to joining TerraPower, Steven worked for over 25 years as an investment banker with Credit Suisse, UBS and other global investment banks in a variety of roles throughout the world. Most recently, Steven was Managing Director and Co-Head of UBS’s Energy Transition investment banking group.

Steven began his investment banking career in 1997 as a member of Credit Suisse’s Global Energy Group, working in New York, London and Moscow. He founded Credit Suisse’s Energy Services investment banking practice and advised on some of the landmark transactions in the sector. From 2007-2010, Steven was Credit Suisse’s Regional CEO and Head of Client Coverage, Russia/CIS, based in Moscow, where he advised international and domestic companies in the Energy and other sectors. From 2016-2018, Steven served as Chief Restructuring of FESCO Transportation Group and, from 2017-2019, as a member of the Board of Directors of Lenta, Plc.

Prior to his career in investment banking, Steven was Executive Vice President and Head of Business Development for UniSite, Inc, a wireless tower collocation company. Steven began his career as a business and finance attorney at Latham & Watkins, where he advised on the financing of communications satellites and worked on the launch of DirecTV.

Steven holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Soviet Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Scholars Program.