Jarret Adams - Founder and CEO

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Full On Communications' Founder and CEO Jarret Adams is an MBA-educated corporate communications executive with more than 20 years of international experience in communications. 

He worked for AREVA,  a world leader in nuclear energy, where he served as Vice President of Communications and Director of Media Relations and Online Communications.

He also worked as Senior Communications Consultant/Senior Writer for the U.S. Nuclear Energy Institute. 

Prior to creating Full On Communications, he was a Director of Communications  based in the United Arab Emirates and focusing on the clean energy sector for APCO Worldwide, a leading international public relations agency.

Mr. Adams also has extensive experience as a freelance writer, editor, correspondent, and government/industry analyst, covering a wide range of topics including business, technology, travel, and international affairs.  

His work has been published in the Red Herring (London), Chemical Week magazine (New York), and Forecast International’s World Aerospace & Defense Intelligence newsletter (Newtown, Conn.), among others.

Mr. Adams has studied at Harvard Business School (Cambridge, Mass.; business management); George Washington University (Washington, D.C.; Master of Business Administration); Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.; Graduate Certificate in International Business Management); Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme (Lille, France; graduate school of journalism); and University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa.; Bachelor of Arts in English).

He currently serves on the Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC), which advises the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on nuclear trade issues. Mr. Adams is an experienced public affairs strategist, corporate spokesperson, and speechwriter. He is fluent in English and French and has knowledge of other European languages, Arabic, and Mandarin Chinese.

Walter Hill has more than 40 years’ experience in communications, public affairs and training. He has worked with electric industry associations, as well as companies engaged in new, innovation designs for small, modular reactors and in shipping and managing nuclear fuel. Mr. Hill is also principal of WH Hill Communications and provides training for emergency spokespeople. 

For 20 years, he was senior director, external affairs for the Nuclear Energy Institute, where he was responsible for strategic alignment of more than 500 communications professionals in the nuclear energy industry, providing guidance and training in media and public affairs. 

While at NEI, he managed the organization’s emergency response plan, and he directed new reactor communications. He also trained communicators worldwide engaged in both operating and new reactor issues. In addition, he led a multi-disciplinary team to assess and adapt lessons learned from responses to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident and engaged in outreach to decision-makers and opinion leaders in the United States, Europe, Japan and Taiwan. In 2013, he joined an industry team of leaders to brief members of Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan and President Ma. He also appeared in Taiwanese national media to address concerns in the wake of Fukushima. 

While at NEI, he managed a $2M coalition of 4,000 advocates for nuclear energy chaired by Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore and Christine Todd Whitman, former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and governor of New Jersey. 

He also managed the industrywide Clean Energy America program, a speakers’ bureau of rising industry leaders, providing training and placements on college campuses and in the media. 

Mr. Hill has organized and conducted nuclear communications workshops for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Shenzhen, China; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Vienna, Austria; and Cairo, Egypt.

Previously he was a director of energy programs at Potomac Communications, Inc., in Washington, DC. He also led communications programs as manager of publications at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. Earlier, he was a writer for the $5 billion Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project in Tennessee.

Jeff has spent his career at the policy intersections of energy, defense and public health and the environment.  He brings a wealth of business and government service experience.  

He is the co-founder and managing director of the Advanced Nuclear Weapons Alliance Deterrence Center, established in 2017 as a bipartisan organization to inform key decisionmakers, stakeholders and the public on the estimated 30-year, $1.2 trillion modernization of the United States strategic nuclear deterrent. Jeff is also a co-founder and a Board member of the Center for Lyme Action, a 501(c)4, dedicated to increasing Federal funding to make Lyme disease easier to diagnose and simple to cure.

Previously Jeff was the Vice President of Government Relations for The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), a leading defense contractor for the Departments of Energy (DOE) and Defense, as well as NASA, and a global power generation technology supplier and manufacturer.  

At B&W, Jeff led a team through U.S. Government legislative, funding, and regulatory initiatives in support of nuclear, fossil and renewable energy and defense business goals.  Jeff also served as the Manager of Government Programs for former McDermott International subsidiary, BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT), which merged with B&W in 2006.  

BWXT manufacturers the nuclear reactors and fuel for U.S. Navy submarines and aircraft carriers, manages DOE nuclear energy and nuclear weapons laboratories and nuclear cleanup sites, and supplies commercial nuclear components and advanced reactor design services.

Prior to B&W, Jeff was Vice President at the government relations firm, Cauthen and Associates, advising and advocating on behalf U.S. utilities, such as Southern Company and PEPCO on EPA regulatory issues and climate change, and national security clients.

He was an advisor to Secretaries of Energy during the Clinton Administration and an investigator for the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee under Chairman John D. Dingell (D-MI).

Jeff holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Middlebury College.

Jeremy Gordon has spent more than 17 years as a communicator in the energy industry, specialising in nuclear power. 

After beginning as a journalist in the role of Deputy Editor of Nuclear Engineering International magazine, Jeremy joined the World Nuclear Association in 2006 and launched its independent World Nuclear News service the following year.

Jeremy went on to oversee all the WNA's information services and serve a member of its management team, contributing to setting its agenda and strategy as well as delivering its projects and goals. For a year he advised the Harmony programme, which represents the nuclear industry’s goal and vision for its place in a future energy mix.  

In 2019, Jeremy founded Fluent in Energy, an independent consultancy offering communication support and training to nuclear organisations wishing to raise the effectiveness of their public communication.

Jeremy grew up and was educated in London, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Westminster and graduating with honours in 2000.

Nathalie Stepherson is a professional administrator and communication specialist with 20-plus years of experience in the nuclear industry. Nathalie is an energetic and efficient part of our Full On Communications consulting team. 

She has extensive experience in the nuclear industry, has worked in both government and the private sector, and brings a multicultural background along with extensive management and public relations skills. Before joining Full On Communications, Nathalie worked in many different capacities with AREVA, world leader in nuclear energy.  

While at AREVA, she was the point of contact for communications and for AREVA T&D tradeshows in domestic and international settings. She previously worked for Framatome USA Inc., a predecessor of AREVA, and was involved in many public relations aspects of the company. 

Ms. Stepherson has a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College in French and Spanish and is fluent in both languages. 

Stephen Dyke is an Associate at Full On Communications who works on a variety of different projects in the fields of corporate communication, government affairs and marketing. He has broad expertise in with writing, visual communication, social media and website development.

Stephen graduated from Auburn University with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a minor in Italian Studies.