Decosta Jenkins

Independent Director and Chair of the Audit Committee

Decosta E. Jenkins is the former president and CEO of Nashville Electric Service (NES), one of the largest public utilities in the United States, from which he retired on June 1, 2022. He joined NES in 1991, serving as a senior vice president and chief financial officer before being appointed to the CEO post in 2004. Prior to that, he spent 11 years at Deloitte working in the audit department for private and public companies.

Jenkins is a certified public accountant and earned an accounting degree from the University of Tennessee. Jenkins serves on the board of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee and HG Hill Realty Company and is a member of the board of directors for 13 Verticals, Inc., a SEC-registered public company. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of Tennessee. He is the former chair of the board of the American Public Power Association (APPA), and former chairman of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and serves as a member of the Trustees Council for the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. Prior to his retirement he served on several local, regional, and national committees addressing civic, energy, and climate issues including the APPA CEO Climate Change and Generation Policy Task Force, and the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Customer Planning Council.

Jenkins is a prominent civic and business leader within the Nashville community with deep financial and operational expertise and experience and Pinnacle believes his knowledge, expertise and experience and long history of community involvement as well as his background in accounting makes him a valuable member of our Board. Jenkins has been designated as an “audit committee financial expert” by the Board.