Mike Kansler is currently the President and Chief Nuclear Officer of Entergy Nuclear, responsible for Entergy’s nuclear plants located throughout New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Michigan, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, as well as the management of the Cooper Nuclear Station for the State of Nebraska. Kansler joined Entergy in 1998 as Vice President of Operations Support, based at Entergy Nuclear’s headquarters in Jackson, Mississippi. In 2000 he was named as the company’s Chief Operating Officer for the Northeast, then becoming President of the same region.

Before joining Entergy, Kansler spent more than 20 years at Virginia Power (now Dominion Resources). For his last two years with Virginia Power, he was Vice President of its nuclear program. Kansler’s educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and he completed Pennsylvania State University’s executive management program.

Kansler is a founding member of the Northeast Energy Alliance; chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee; former chairman of the Energy Association of New York State; and member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Nuclear Power Operations Board and Hudson Valley Hospital Center Board.