JAY STOWE
MANAGING DIRECTOR & CEO, JEA, JACKSONVILLE
JEA is Northeast Florida’s not-for-profit, city-owned utility, employing 2,000. Stowe took over leadership after former CEO Aaron Zahn was fired following an effort to try to privatize the utility. Stowe is a third-generation utility executive. His father and grandfather both ran utilities in North Carolina. “I always joke and tell people that family dinner conversations for me as a child were very unusual. Our hot topic was utilities.”
| EDUCATION | North Carolina State University (BS) |
| SOMETHING SURPRISING | I love to run, and I’m fascinated by bridges. When I visit somewhere new, I like to make time to look at the city’s infrastructure, and I make it my mission to run across the city’s bridges. |
| ADMIRES | I admire how Amy Zubaly from the Florida Municipal Electric Association pivoted during the pandemic, and I find it impressive the way she handles mutual aid assistance across the country. |
| READING | A Promised Land, by Barack Obama; Intangibles, by Joan Ryan; Powerful by Patty McCord |