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Leadership Team
JEA’s Leadership Team is committed to achieving our mission: providing the best service by becoming the center of our customers' energy and water experience. Please click on each leader's name to learn more about their role, background and experience.
Jay Stowe was named JEA’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer in November 2020. In his role, he oversees
Florida’s largest community-owned water, wastewater and electric utility, which employs approximately 2,000 team members and serves more than one million residents and businesses across Northeast Florida.
For more than 25 years in the not-for-profit
utility sector, Mr. Stowe has held executive leadership positions and supported groups including: operations, finance, engineering, administration, human resources, and customer experience. Mr. Stowe is a visionary who focuses on elevating employee
satisfaction, customer satisfaction, community engagement and economic development – which he believes is critical to JEA’s ability to best serve its customers and community.
Prior to joining JEA, Mr. Stowe was CEO of Stowe Utility Group
in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he provided consulting services in support of utility operations, business and functional needs to community-owned utilities across the Southeast and Midwest. He served in senior vice president roles over distributed
energy resources and operations for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), developing renewable energy, energy efficiency and electrification initiatives. Prior to TVA, he spent more than a decade at Huntsville (Ala.) Utilities, where he served as
VP of Operations and COO before becoming President and CEO. Under Mr. Stowe’s leadership, Huntsville Utilities grew to become the 15th largest public gas system in the country, the 20th largest public electric system in the country and one of the
largest water systems in the Southeast. Earlier, he served as Utilities Director in Shelby, N.C. and Public Works and Utilities Director in Newton, N.C. He started his career working for private engineering firms in the Carolinas and Ohio.
Mr. Stowe earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from North Carolina State University.
Biographical sketch coming soon
Sheila Pressley was named JEA's Chief Customer Officer in February 2021. Over her 18-year tenure at JEA, she has provided a wealth of operational and strategic leadership, including service on the extended leadership team and the Customer Experience
Business Unit executive leadership team. She has also held leadership positions in Revenue Cycle, Customer Assistance Programs, Call Center Operations, Meter Reading, and Commercial Client Relationships departments and was the Communications and Change
Manager for the Customer Care & Billing Project. Additionally she was among the team members who championed customer satisfaction initiatives that led to JEA’s 51-point improvement in the 2013 JD Power Residential Customer Satisfaction Survey.
Ms. Pressley is heavily engaged in community and civic endeavors. She has served as a JAX Chamber Trustee and serves on the board of directors for several nonprofit agencies. She is a 2019 Leadership Jacksonville graduate and volunteers her time to
support this longstanding leadership program. She is currently serving a second term as Chair of the Planning Committee for the Northeast Florida Community Action Agency (NFCAA), a nonprofit agency purposed to stabilize vulnerable households and empower
families in Northeast Florida to achieve self-sufficiency through education, employment, and advocacy. She also serves on the National Energy & Utility Affordability Coalition (NEUAC) board of directors, a nationwide organization that advocates for
the energy needs of low-income households. She is a former board member of Community Heath Charities of Florida and a past mentor with Take Stock in Children.
David Emanuel was named JEA’s Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer in February 2021. He is responsible for the development and implementation of organizational re-design efforts, talent acquisition, succession planning, compensation plans, and employee
engagement efforts critical to JEA’s efficiency and productivity.
As a human resources executive with over 30 years of experience in a variety of sectors, Mr. Emanuel strives to help others navigate personnel and organizational matters in
a thoughtful, progressive and meaningful manner. He has worked globally, while learning the value of diversity of cultures. He firmly believes that while rules, policies, standards, and expectations can differ, respect for the individual cannot.
Prior
to joining JEA, Mr. Emanuel served in a number of senior leadership roles, most recently as Chief Human Resources Officer for APR Energy, a global organization responsible for designing, manufacturing, and operating emergency power sources to customers
in 35 countries internationally. He also worked as Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources for CIT, where he was responsible for business process redesign of all human resources in the corporate functional, operations and administration areas
across its global footprint. Additionally, Mr. Emanuel was Vice President of Global Human Resources for Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) Worldwide, where he was head of the global human resources sports and entertainment business, encompassing sports
teams, entertainment, content management, product development, and facility management for over 35 major venues around the world.
Mr. Emanuel is the Chair of the Dean’s Council at the University of North Florida, Co-Chair of the Talent Advancement
Network for the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, and has been a speaker for the Minority Business Roundtable for over a decade. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Wittenberg University.
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Laura Dutton will assume the new role of JEA's Chief Strategy Officer in March 2021. In her role, she will lead a team focused on corporate strategy and support, including Analytics,
Continuous Improvement, Board Services, Real Estate, New Solutions, Market
Development and Learning and Development.
Ms. Dutton has served the public power industry for more than 17 years with experience in strategy development, planning and analysis. She also served
as Senior Advisor in External Relations and Resources & Operations Support organizations. Most recently, she was responsible for Talent Planning at Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Electric Systems
JEA is proud of its Electric System and its reputation as one of the nation’s exemplary municipal service providers. Our existing generation capacity is 3,747 MWs and our generation fleet contains a diverse resource mix.
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Water Supply
JEA delivers more than 110 million gallons of water each day to our customers. We regularly test the water we send to customers to ensure its safety, as outlined by federal and state regulatory agencies. Our state-of-the-art technology monitors our water supply grid to bring fresh, clean water to your home. We work hard to help our customers learn how to conserve Northeast Florida's most precious resource, the Floridan aquifer, so that we may continue to benefit from it for generations to come.
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Wastewater
JEA's sewer collection system handles more than 70 million gallons of wastewater every day. Our waste collection and treatment system consists of more than 3,700 miles of collection lines, over 1,200 pumping stations and fourteen sewer treatment plants.