Simon Irish is Chief Executive Officer of Terrestrial Energy.  He has 20 years of global investment banking and investment management experience in New York and London and has a formal education in the quantitative sciences and quantitative finance.  Mr. Irish has established and managed multi-billion-dollar alternative investment businesses in North America.
 
Mr. Irish began his banking career at Credit Suisse Financial Products in London before moving to New York, where he led the investment effort in North America for Man Group Plc, a leading global investment management business.  In 2010, he focused on investment opportunities in breakthrough energy technologies and specifically nuclear energy given its unique virtues, and the unparalleled commercial potential of Generation IV fission technologies in many industries and in an age of energy transition.  Mr. Irish holds an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and an MSc in Finance from the London Business School.