NEW ORLEANS, April 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Deanna
Rodriguez has been appointed by Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) to
lead Entergy New Orleans, LLC, as its president and CEO. She
succeeds David Ellis, who has been
promoted to the first-ever chief customer officer for Entergy
Corporation. The changes are effective May
9, 2021.
"Throughout Deanna's career, a common thread in her nearly three
decades of success has been her understanding and expertise in how
proactive and sustained stakeholder engagement can positively
impact both business results and the livelihood of our customers
and communities," said Rod West,
group president, utility operations for Entergy Corporation. "Her
industry experience combined with her background in regulatory
affairs at Entergy New Orleans make her ideally suited to lead
ENO."
Rodriguez, currently vice president of regulatory and public
affairs at Entergy Texas, Inc., has played a central role in
re-aligning the interests of our external stakeholders around our
customer-centric investment plan in that state since 2012.
Prior to that role, Rodriquez, a 27-year veteran of Entergy,
served as vice president of regulatory affairs for Entergy New
Orleans where she worked closely with the New Orleans City Council
to launch the first Energy Smart program. The comprehensive energy
efficiency plan was developed in collaboration with the New Orleans
City Council and continues assisting customers today.
She also served as director of external affairs for Entergy
Corporation, where she coordinated post-Hurricane Katrina funding
efforts, which resulted in more than $200
million in community development block grant funding for
Entergy's Louisiana, Mississippi and New
Orleans operating companies.
From 1999 to 2003, as vice president of corporate contributions,
Rodriguez oversaw the creation of the Entergy Charitable
Foundation and the company's employee volunteer program, Community
Connectors.
"I love New Orleans, and it is
indeed a special place," said Rodriguez. "I look forward to
working with the City Council, the Mayor and other city leaders to
develop programs and policy that will help us meet and exceed all
of our customers' expectations."
Rodriguez holds a master's degree in public affairs from the
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor's
degree in government from the University of
Texas at Austin. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the
Board of the Association of Electric Companies of Texas as well as on the Advisory board of the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Texas Senate Hispanic Research Council, the
Subiendo Board for UT Austin's
School of Business and Austin PBS.
About Entergy New Orleans
Entergy New Orleans, LLC is an electric and gas utility that
serves Louisiana's Orleans Parish. The company provides
electricity to more than 200,000 customers and natural gas to more
than 108,000 customers. Entergy New Orleans, LLC is a subsidiary of
Entergy Corporation.
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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