Retiring Entergy Nuclear Officer Slated to Join Enexus
New Orleans, La. – Three Entergy Corporation officers have announced their
retirement after distinguished careers spanning 30 to more than 40 years each.
Scheduled to retire later this month are Mike Kansler, president, chief
executive officer and chief nuclear officer of Entergy Nuclear; John McGaha,
senior vice president of Entergy Operations; and Bud Storey, vice president and
deputy general counsel.
“Mike, John and Bud have all made invaluable contributions to the company
throughout their many years of service,” said Entergy Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer J. Wayne Leonard. “All three have been outstanding leaders and
will leave big shoes to fill at Entergy. They have planned for this day and
helped to develop successors that are prepared and eager to continue the record
of achievement set by their predecessors.”
John Herron will assume Kansler’s duties at Entergy and responsibility for
Entergy’s nuclear units located throughout New York, Massachusetts, Vermont,
Michigan, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, as well as the company’s
management of the Cooper Nuclear Station in Nebraska. Herron will also take over
Kansler’s role as chief executive officer designate of EquaGen L.L.C., which
will operate the six merchant nuclear units proposed to be spun off to Enexus
Energy Corporation. Those units are located in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont
and Michigan. EquaGen will also manage the Cooper Nuclear Station in Nebraska as
part of the spin-off.
Herron currently serves as Entergy’s senior vice president for nuclear
operations. He previously served as chief operating officer of Entergy Nuclear
Northeast overseeing the day-to-day operations of all Entergy’s merchant nuclear
units. Herron joined Entergy in February 2001 as vice president, operations at
Waterford 3 Nuclear Station in Killona, La. He then moved to New York as the
senior vice president of Indian Point Energy Center in February 2002. Herron’s
replacement will be named at a later date.
John McGaha will be retiring as executive vice president and chief operating
officer of Entergy Nuclear South and president of Entergy Nuclear South. McGaha
was named chief operating officer designate for Enexus Energy, Inc. in December
2007 and he has led the Project Management Office directing activities related
to the spin-off of the non-utility nuclear business since that time. He plans to
continue in the COO role at Enexus after his retirement from Entergy once the
company completes the spin-off of the non-utility nuclear business.
McGaha joined Entergy in 1978 and held numerous roles from general manager of
plant operations at Waterford 3 to vice president of the River Bend nuclear
unit, both located in Louisiana.
Bud Storey, senior vice president and deputy general counsel, will retire
after 15 years at Entergy. He oversaw Entergy attorneys in the Commercial
General group located in Beaumont, Jackson and Little Rock. During his time at
Entergy, Storey has played a lead role in matters as central as the Entergy New
Orleans bankruptcy after Hurricane Katrina and a broad swath of commercial
litigation crucial to the company’s overall operations and successes.
Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in
electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and
operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating
capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States.
Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas,
Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of more than $13
billion and approximately 14,700 employees.
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Entergy’s online address is
www.entergy.com.