Executive Bios

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
• Michael Balduzzi, Senior Vice President of regional operations, Entergy Nuclear
• Joseph Pollock, Site Vice President, Indian Point Energy Center
• Anthony Vitale, 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).

Michael A. Balduzzi
Senior Vice President of regional operations
Entergy Nuclear

Michael A. Balduzzi was named senior vice president of regional operations for the northeast region of Entergy Nuclear in March 2007. He has overall responsibility for the daily operations of five nuclear sites Entergy operates in its Northeast region.

He began his career with Entergy Nuclear when the company purchased the Vermont Yankee Plant in July 2002, where he served as its vice president operations since the acquisition. In 2003 he was named as site vice president.

Balduzzi has extensive nuclear experience in boiling water reactor technologies. Prior to VY’s purchase, he was its senior vice president and chief nuclear officer. Before joining Entergy, Balduzzi spent more than five years with Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation and over 15 years with Niagara Mohawk.

He began his career at Niagara Mohawk in 1982 as an engineer and earned a senior reactor operator license in 1992. He held various management positions at Niagara Mohawk, Nine Mile One and Two, including lead quality assurance engineer, system engineer, general supervisor of operations support and operations manager. While at VYNPC, he moved from superintendent of operations, to plant manager, to vice president of operations, to senior vice president and chief nuclear officer.

His educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo, and he completed the Institute of Nuclear Power Operation’s Senior Nuclear Plant Management Course.

Anthony Vitale
GM of Plant Operations, Indian Point Energy Center

Anthony J. Vitale became plant manager of Indian Point Energy Center in September 2007. As plant manager, Vitale is responsible for the continued safe operation of Indian Point Energy Center’s units 2 and 3, and the maintenance of unit1.

Vitale has more than 24 years of experience at Indian Point Energy Center’s Unit 3 with the New York Power Authority in 1983. Before becoming plant manager of operations, Vitale was the manager of operations.

Vitale started his nuclear career at Indian Point Energy Center’s Unit 3 with the New York Power Authority in 1983 as a maintenance planner. Throughout his career with NYPA, Vitale worked in various maintenance, engineering and operations supervisory and management positions.

His educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from University of Delaware. He holds a senior reactor operator certification and has also completed Entergy’s executive training program in 2004 and the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators’ Senior Nuclear Plant Management Course in 2005.