Executive Team

Tom Rainwater

President & Chief Executive Officer

Tom has 30 years of energy sector leadership experience, including 20 in power generation, marketing and trading using renewable and conventional technologies.  He has been a CEO and Board member of both private and publicly-traded energy companies in various global energy markets.

Tom is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering in Ann Arbor with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in Technical Writing.  He also earned a master’s degree in management from Cardinal Stritch University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a graduate certificate in marketing from the SMU Cox School of Business in Dallas, Texas. 

Jeffery A. Spencer

Chief Financial Officer

Jeff has 22 years of domestic and international experience in the power generation sector including regional and subsidiary executive financial management roles at Southern Company and its subsidiaries in the U.S. and Latin America as Chief Financial Officer, Northeast Region for Mirant Corp; Assistant Treasurer of Southern Company Services; and Chief Financial Officer of a South American Subsidiary. Jeff’s experience at Southern and Mirant also includes corporate finance, business development and mergers and acquisitions roles in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, having significant responsibilities for the financing and execution of several acquisitions, as well as various public bond and equity offerings, Rule 144A private placements, commercial bank facilities, lease financings and financial derivative transactions.

David Rosenstein

General Counsel

David is the Vice President and General Counsel for NAEA.  Prior to joining NAEA, David served as Vice President and General Counsel of Conectiv Energy, the merchant generation subsidiary of Pepco Holdings, Inc.  Before joining Conectiv Energy David served as Vice President of Lundberg, Marshall & Associates, a national engineering consulting firm that provides services to members of the electric utility industry and their industrial customers.  While with Lundberg Marshall, David managed the firm’s regulatory intervention practice.  Prior to joining Lundberg, Marshall David was a partner with the law firm of Dykema Gossett, a 450 attorney law firm headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.  David holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a JD from University of Cincinnati in Ohio.

Debbie Pollock-Berry, Chief People Officer

Vice President, Human Resources

Debbie has 20 years of human resources management experience. She has led multi-faceted and geographically diverse teams of human resources professionals, negotiated collective bargaining agreements, as well as developed employee and executive coaching programs.  She has served in a leadership function for the past fifteen years in several companies, including AOL and Verizon.  Debbie has a BA in English from Francis Marion University.