NEW ORLEANS, April 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Entergy
Corporation (NYSE: ETR) today announced that David Ellis has been appointed chief customer
officer for the company. He will report to Rod West, Entergy's group president for utility
operations, and will assume his new role effective May 9, 2021.
As Entergy's first-ever chief customer officer, Ellis will lead
the company's strategic efforts aimed at delivering extraordinary
customer experiences while also bringing to market innovative
solutions to keep pace with evolving customer needs and
expectations.
"Whether we're powering a single-family home, small business,
school, or large industrial complex, our customers expect us to
understand their aspirations and the outcomes that matter to them,"
said West. "In this new role, David will help us partner with our
customers at every touchpoint to enable us to meet their
reliability, affordability and sustainability goals and to develop
solutions that create sustainable value," continued West. "That's
what customers expect from the premier utility. We are excited
about David leading this important effort across all of our
operating companies."
Ellis has served as president and CEO of Entergy New Orleans,
LLC, an electric and gas utility subsidiary of Entergy Corporation
that serves 207,000 electric and 108,000 natural gas customers and
has annual revenues of $634 million,
since 2018. Under his leadership, Ellis oversaw the successful
startup of the 128-megawatt New Orleans Power Station and secured
the regulatory approval and initiated the construction of several
renewable energy projects that will benefit the residents of
New Orleans. Ellis drove the
expansion of several technology and policy-based outcomes intended
to improve reliability, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, manage
energy consumption and improve resilience from storm impacts.
He has worked for nearly three decades in the energy industry in
varying leadership roles in areas such as customer solutions,
technology, energy management and reliability. Prior to joining
Entergy, Ellis served as president and CEO of New Jersey-based Global Power Technologies
where he led three United
States-based companies offering global power quality and
reliability solutions. Prior to that, he led demand-response
company Comverge's global expansion working directly with
governmental, regulatory and utility interests around the
world.
In addition to his role at Comverge, he also was president of
wholly owned subsidiary Clean Power Markets, a U.S.-headquartered
company administering renewable portfolio standards in U.S.
compliance markets offering cloud-based software solutions to
commercial and industrial consumers.
Ellis holds an MBA from Eastern
University and a Bachelor of Science in electrical
engineering technology from Penn State
University. He has completed certificate-based coursework at
Drexel University and the Wharton
School of the University of
Pennsylvania.
Ellis' successor at Entergy New Orleans will soon be
announced.
About Entergy Corporation
Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged in
electric power production, transmission and retail distribution
operations. Entergy delivers electricity to 3 million utility
customers in Arkansas,
Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy owns and operates one of the
cleanest large-scale U.S. power generating fleets with
approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity,
including 8,000 megawatts of nuclear power. Headquartered in
New Orleans, Louisiana, Entergy
has annual revenues of $10 billion
and more than 13,000 employees. Learn more at entergy.com and
follow @Entergy on social media.
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