Our Leadership

The National Carbon Capture Center leadership team fosters a collaborative environment where more than 100 highly specialized engineers, operations, maintenance and support personnel manage projects through every phase, including onboarding, design, scale-up, testing, data analysis, final evaluation and demobilization. The team leads world-class research and testing of carbon capture technologies and shares the knowledge gained with developers and test facilities as technology is scaled up following testing at the center.   

John Northington

Director, National Carbon Capture CenterDirector, Net-Zero Technologies, Research and Development, Southern CompanyEmail John

Doug McCarty

Process and Design Engineering ManagerNational Carbon Capture CenterEmail Doug

Randy Pate

Administrative and Compliance ManagerNational Carbon Capture CenterEmail Randy

John Carroll

Principal EngineerNational Carbon Capture CenterEmail John

Gordon Henley

Research Operations ManagerNational Carbon Capture CenterEmail Gordon

Barry Shirley

Project Engineering ManagerSouthern CompanyEmail Barry

Mark Berry, Ph.D., P.E.

Senior Vice President, Research and DevelopmentSouthern Company

Richard Esposito, Ph.D.

Program Manager, Geosciences and Carbon ManagementSouthern CompanyEmail Richard