Jim Krupnick
Associate Laboratory Director, Chief Operating Officer
Berkeley Lab’s ALD for Operations/Chief Operating Officer oversees the Laboratory’s Environmental Safety and Health, Facilities Management, Financial Services, Human Resources, Information Technology, and Public Affairs Divisions and Departments, plus the Office of Workforce Diversity. Krupnick, who has been with the Lab since 1976, earned his B.S degree in social science and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He was appointed the ALD for Operations in 2008 by Berkeley Lab Director Steven Chu. Previously he was a Division Deputy at the Advanced Light Source, and project director for the construction of the Molecular Foundry, which earned a Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification, and a “Secretary of Energy's Excellence in Acquisition Award" for the project management team.