Donald Hoffman
President & CEO
EXCEL Services Corporation
Founder/President/Chief Executive Officer
EXCEL Services Corporation
Past President and Fellow
American Nuclear Society
Founder/President/Chief Executive Officer
Sensible Energy Matters to America
Founder/President/Chief Executive Officer
United Nuclear Industry Alliance
Donald R. Hoffman has a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering and Science, a Master of Science Degree in Management and Leadership, and a PhD in Global Energy Policy.
He served in the US Nuclear Submarine Navy as a Senior Reactor Operator and Engineering Officer from 1970 – 1979.
He was the Manager in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Licensing and Technical Specifications Division reviewing License Applications and Technical Specifications for the 26 nuclear plants that were licensed in the US post TMI from 1980 – 1985.
Donald founded EXCEL SERVICES CORPORATION (hereinafter EXCEL) in 1985, a global nuclear engineering consulting company. In the more than 41 years since the formation of the company, EXCEL has become globally recognized as the premier supplier of licensing, regulatory, engineering, technical, operations and critical infrastructure services to nuclear facilities worldwide. EXCEL works with every nuclear facility in the US and in 34 countries.
He has pioneered multiple initiatives that have led the enhanced safety, improved performance and reduced costs of operation of reactor plants globally. He has served as Executive Advisor to domestic and global Government and Industry Leaders.
Donald is a Past President and a current Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and a past member of the ANS’s Board of Directors. At ANS, he held every major leadership office and was chair of many of the organization’s committees.
He has served as a former member of the Secretary of Commerce’s Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC) and other Department of Energy and Department of States Committees.
He also holds and has held senior advisory positions in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Western European Nuclear Regulators Association (WENRA), and the World Nuclear Association (WNA).
He is the President and Chair of the International Nuclear Energy Academy, a global organization of the greatest minds in nuclear energy.
He is the current President of Eagle Alliance, a US grassroots organization that represents all facets of Nuclear Science and Technology; he is on the Board of Directors of the European Nuclear Society; he serves on numerous IAEA Committees and Task Forces for New Nuclear Build and Current Nuclear Fleet Safety and Operational Issues; he was the Chair of the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority (VNECA) working with the Governor of Virginia to promote Virginia as a premiere nuclear state; he was the founding Co-Chair of the ANS’s Special Committee on Nuclear in the States, and is now the President/CEO of Sensible Energy Matters to America (SEMA), a 501(c)(3) organization he founded to ensure the state and federal lawmakers appropriately value nuclear in the present and future energy mix and develop a sensible approach for the overall energy policy.
Additionally, he has and/or is serving in many capacities including, but not limited to:
Chair, Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Alliance (2017-2019)
Member, Board of Directors US Energy Association (USEA) (2015-Present)
Member, University of California Berkeley Nuclear Energy Advisory Board (2015-Present)
Member, Small Business Administration (NSBA) Leadership Council (2015-Present)
Member, Board of Advisors American Energy Society (AES) (2015-Present)
Member, Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
Member, Department of Commerce Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC) (2012-2013, 2017-2024)
Member and Vice Chair/Chair Department of Commerce International Trade Administration ITAC 7, Energy and Energy Services (2020-Present)
President, International Nuclear Energy Academy (2024-Present)
Member, International Nuclear Societies Council Past Chair, Advisory Committee STARCORE (2015-2018)
Vice Chairman and Member, World Nuclear Association Cooperation in Reactor Design, Evaluation and Licensing (CORDEL) (2007-2020)
Charitable Activities
Hoffman is also deeply involved in several charitable activities. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Montgomery County Partners in Animal Welfare Society (MCPAW). He is on the board of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, the American Cancer Society, the Maryland Special Olympics, the Kidney Foundation, Wounded Warriors, Fisher House, Hero Dogs, and many others.
