10 NextEra Energy operations leaders
Wind, solar and storage fleets, nuclear plant operations at Point Beach and Turkey Point, transmission and power delivery, and renewable fuels and carbon abatement are all covered by these NextEra Energy operations leaders. Nine hold current NextEra titles, including the Executive Vice President of Power Generation, which suits a generator or utility comparing how fleet monitoring, plant operations and maintenance are organized.
Professionals to explore
Brian Vander Velde
LinkedInExperience: Operations Director · NextEra Energy, Inc. - Turkey Point Nuclear Plant
Brian Vander Velde has been DAEC Director - Plant Systems Restart at NextEra Energy, Inc. since 2026, after Operations Director at NextEra Energy, Inc. - Turkey Point Nuclear Plant (2025–2026). At NextEra Energy Resources, Brian was Shift Manager (2015–2021), Assistant Operations Manager - Training (2021–2022) and Assistant Operations Manager - Shift (2022–2025), a fit for questions on nuclear shift operations and restarting plant systems.
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Christopher B. Carmona, MBA, P.E.
LinkedInExperience: Regional wind fleet questions fit Christopher B. Carmona, Executive Director Wind Operations · NextEra Energy Resources
Regional wind fleet questions fit Christopher B. Carmona, Executive Director Wind Operations at NextEra Energy Resources since 2025, who held Senior Director Wind Operations - Mountain Region (2023–2025) and Senior Director Wind Operations - Heartland Region (2019–2023). Christopher was Regional Plant General Manager - Sayreville, Bayswater & Jamaica Bay at NextEra Energy Resources (2017–2019) and Production Manager - Port Everglades Energy Center at Florida Power & Light (2014–2017).
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Gil Makabenta
LinkedInExperience: Director of Operations · NextEra Energy Resources
General manager of a 5GW portfolio of utility scale PV and battery storage assets in Southern California and Arizona, Gil Makabenta has been Director of Operations at NextEra Energy Resources since 2026. Gil was Sr PGD Operations Specialist (2017–2019), Solar Site Manager (2019–2021), Regional Manager II (2021–2022) and Regional Manager I (2022–2026) there, a fit for questions on managing solar and storage sites across a region.
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Jennifer Chaney
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Operations · NextEra Energy Resources
How renewable asset management feeds operations decisions is a question for Jennifer Chaney, Vice President Operations at NextEra Energy Resources since 2025, after Executive Director (2024–2025), Senior Director of Operations (2020–2024) and Director - Renewable Asset Managent (2014–2020) there. Jennifer was also Solar - Early Stage Manager at NextEra Energy Resources (2009–2011).
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Juan Nasiff
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Operations - Solar and Storage - Florida Onboarding and Operational Excellence · NextEra Energy, Inc.
Juan Nasiff has been Senior Director of Operations - Solar and Storage - Florida Onboarding and Operational Excellence at NextEra Energy, Inc. since 2025, and held Senior Director of Operations, ROCC (2022–2026) and General Manager for Renewable Operations Control Center Fleet Performance and Diagnostics Center (2019–2026). Juan was also General Manager Wind Reliability Engineering (2008–2015), the closest fit here for remote monitoring and fleet diagnostics questions.
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Manny Miranda
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President, Power Delivery and President, Florida City Gas · NextEra Energy, Inc.
Manny Miranda was Executive Vice President, Power Delivery and President, Florida City Gas at NextEra Energy, Inc. (2013–2024), responsible for the planning, engineering, construction, maintenance and operations of the company's transmission, substation and distribution systems. Manny was Vice President of Transmission & Substation (2010–2013) and Vice President of Distribution System Performance (2006–2010), a fit for grid operations and reliability questions.
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Mark Lemasney, P.E
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President of Power Generation · NextEra Energy, Inc.; Former Vice President of Operations - Wind, Solar & Pipelines · NextEra Energy Resources
Executive Vice President of Power Generation at NextEra Energy, Inc. since 2023, Mark Lemasney was Vice President of Power Generation Engineering, NextEra Energy (2018–2023) before that. At NextEra Energy Resources, Mark was Nextera Central Maintenance General Manager (2010–2011), VP of Fossil & Solar Operations (2016) and Vice President of Operations - Wind, Solar & Pipelines (2016–2018), a fit for fleet-wide maintenance and generation questions.
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Michael Masaitis
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director Transmission and Substation Operations · NextEra Energy Resources
Where solar, storage and transmission operations meet, Michael Masaitis is useful. Michael has been Sr. Director Transmission and Substation Operations at NextEra Energy Resources since 2026, and was Regional General Manager - PV Solar & BESS (2023–2026) and Southcentral Regional General Manager (2023–2025) at NextEra Energy, Inc. At Florida Power & Light, Michael was Senior Operations Specialist (2018–2022) and Site General Manager (2020–2023).
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Segun Ojetayo, P.E.
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director Operations and Construction - Renewable Fuels and Carbon Abatement · NextEra Energy, Inc.
Since 2023, Segun Ojetayo has been Sr. Director Operations and Construction - Renewable Fuels and Carbon Abatement at NextEra Energy, Inc., responsible for the renewable fuels (RNG) and carbon abatement operations and project execution team. Segun was Director of Midstream Engineering (2017–2019), Sr. Director, Engineering (Pipeline, RNG, Carbon Abatement) (2019–2022) and Sr. Director Central Maintenance Projects (Renewables) (2022–2023) at NextEra Energy Resources, a fit for RNG operations questions.
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Thad Edmonds
LinkedInExperience: Site Vice President - Point Beach · NextEra Energy Resources
Commercial nuclear power work since 2007, and 13 years before that as a Navy nuclear operator, is what Thad Edmonds cites. Thad has been Site Vice President - Point Beach at NextEra Energy Resources since 2025, and was General Manager - Fleet Operations at NextEra Energy, Inc. (2024–2025), Operations Director St Lucie at Florida Power & Light (2023–2025) and Director Of Operations at NextEra Energy Resources (2022–2023), a fit for nuclear plant operations questions.
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Choose the right perspective
For fleet monitoring and performance, Juan Nasiff (ROCC and diagnostics) and Mark Lemasney (power generation) are the first calls. Wind questions go to Christopher B. Carmona, solar and storage to Gil Makabenta and Michael Masaitis, renewable asset management to Jennifer Chaney, nuclear plant operations to Thad Edmonds and Brian Vander Velde, the grid to Manny Miranda (former) and renewable fuels to Segun Ojetayo.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does NextEra organize remote monitoring and diagnostics across wind, solar and storage fleets?
- 02How are maintenance and outages planned across a mixed generation fleet to balance cost, reliability and safety?
- 03How do plant operations and transmission and substation teams coordinate when new solar and storage capacity comes online?
About this directory
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