Dr. Krishna P. Singh is the Founder, President and CEO of Holtec International, which he established in 1986 and nurtured its steady rise into a multi-national clean energy technology company with its business footprint in eighteen countries on five continents. Under Dr. Singh’s leadership, Holtec International ranks among the world’s foremost nuclear energy companies and is recognized as the only Western nuclear company with in-house capability to provide components, systems, and entire nuclear plants on turnkey basis to the whole spectrum of sectors in the industry ranging from light water reactors to nuclear waste storage and transport systems. He holds 199 granted patents and 25 pending patents (the largest number of inventions in mechanical engineering ascribed to any living person in the United States) in various fields of clean energy applications, granted by the US Patents and Trademarks Office, and many more patents in other countries.
Born in India’s Bihar State in 1947, Dr. Singh received Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from BIT Sindri (Ranchi University, India, 1967) and two advanced degrees from the University of Pennsylvania: Master of Science in Engineering Mechanics (1969) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (1972). Dr. Singh is a registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania (1974-) and Michigan (1979-), a member of the American Nuclear Society (1975-) and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1974-).
A socially conscious industrialist, Dr. Singh built a $312 million Technology Campus on the Delaware River in Camden, NJ in 2017 to create much needed employment in Camden, NJ which is one of America’s poorest cities. Holtec plans to build similar plants in India as soon as India receives unrestricted technology exchange authorization from the US.
Dr. Singh’s profile would be incomplete without his contributions to the society as a philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of the KPS Foundation, a charitable foundation whose signature contribution to the advancement of science is the completion of the “Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology” at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 2013.
As a native of India and a firm believer in India’s historic greatness and a glorious future, his charitable activities have been decidedly Indo-centric. His Foundation has supported the education of hundreds of disadvantaged children in Bihar, helped build hundreds of sanitation facilities across rural areas in Bihar and gave the largest individual contribution (one million dollars) to the Prime Minister’s fund at the height of the Covid crisis. The KPS Foundation is also active in improving child literacy and public health in India. He is currently building a $30 million dollar hospital and nursing college in India to improve healthcare in rural areas of the country. His Foundation has earmarked $100 million to expand charitable health care in India in this decade.
