Chris Zajic

Vice President Finance @NextEra Energy Resources

I was promoted 3X have overseen multiple finance and business development workstreams, including building out the FP & A platform for NextEra Energy Partners. I manage M&A tracts, set public guidance strategy, and present financial data to C-suite executives. I also prepare rating agency, board materials, and investor relations materials. I am a member of a team that raised $2B annually, representing $12B over 6 years. I completed over $12B in acquisitions. Led team of 8 to create a successful growth strategy to define how the company finances acquisitions. Highlights-Spearheaded a corporate reorganization that resulted in optimizing the balance sheets of both NEE and NEP and creating substantial earnings per share accretion for NextEra Energy (NEE)-Mitigated the 2019 Pacific Gas & Electric (PG & E) bankruptcy, delivering back $100 MM in annual cash flow after financial analysis led a successful strategy to buy back project debt that was trapped in default created by the customer’s bankruptcy-Engineered a capital recycling program that resulted in the sale of a gigawatt sale of wind and solar projects, creating an additional $1.20 of NextEra Energy earnings per share accretion of the lifetime of the assets-Program also resulted in the development of an additional megawatts of utility-scale wind projects and an additional $1.65 of NextEra Energy earnings per share accretion expected over the lifetimes of the projects-Beginning in January 2021, tasked to lead and build a data center business within NextEra Energy and executed 3 acquisitions to-date representing $400 MM of capital deployed with additional $300 MM of investment under development expected to return $50M of net income annually.