Tom O’Neill brings 25 years of power industry experience to Blue Energy. From 2001-2021, Tom held multiple senior executive positions at Exelon Corporation. He joined Exelon Nuclear as a lawyer, and in 2005, he became VP of Licensing. From 2007-09, he led Exelon’s project to develop a dual unit merchant ESBWR in Victoria TX and submitted a combined construction and operating license application (COLA) with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Also during this time, Tom helped form Exelon Nuclear Partners to market Exelon’s nuclear operating expertise worldwide.
After the market declined, Tom helped start Exelon Transmission Company, and in 2010 he moved to the utility side of the business becoming ComEd’s SVP Regulatory and General Counsel. In 2017, Tom was promoted to Exelon General Counsel where he served until 2021 prior to the company spinning off the generation business into Constellation Energy.
Tom began his career at the law firm of Jenner & Block in Chicago where he returned in 2021 as a partner and co-chair of the firm’s Energy practice before joining Blue Energy in 2024.
Tom holds an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Illinois and a JD from the University of Notre Dame. While at Exelon, he completed the reactor technology course for executives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002. Tom and his wife Ann have 2 children and 3 grandchildren and they split their time between Chicago and Colorado where Tom enjoys skiing and cycling.