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Michael A. Brown is the new Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Clearway Energy, Inc. (from Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, The New York Times Company).

Clearway Energy — one of the largest US clean-energy generation owners, with assets across 27 states — brought back a former in-house lawyer to take its top legal seat, succeeding retiring GC Kevin Malcarney. Brown returns from The New York Times Company, where he was assistant GC, after an earlier 2014-2021 stint at Clearway and NRG Yield.

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Jing Nealis is the new Chief Financial Officer at NeoVolta Inc. (from Chief Financial Officer, SES AI Corporation).

NeoVolta, a San Diego-based battery-storage maker, hired Jing Nealis as CFO from EV-battery firm SES AI as it stands up domestic BESS manufacturing in Georgia (2 GWh initial capacity, targeting 8 GWh). She brings 20-plus years of energy-transition and manufacturing finance experience to the residential-to-utility/C&I expansion.

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Ravi Abbineni is the new Chief Financial Officer at ION Storage Systems (from Senior Vice President and CFO, JM Family Enterprises).

Maryland-based solid-state battery developer ION Storage Systems hired a finance chief from large privately-held JM Family Enterprises, signaling a push toward commercial scale-up of its solid-state cell technology.

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Steve Bond has been named Executive Vice President and President at NeoVolta Power LLC (from Chief Financial Officer, NeoVolta Inc.).

In the same announcement that named Jing Nealis CFO, NeoVolta's outgoing finance chief Steve Bond shifted to EVP and President of operating subsidiary NeoVolta Power LLC, taking direct charge of the company's Georgia battery-manufacturing buildout — a CFO-to-operations move that freed the finance seat.

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Robert Vinje is the new Chief Operating Officer at Nextpower (from Chief Operating Officer, SOLARCYCLE).

Nextpower (the solar-tracker maker that rebranded from Nextracker in Nov 2025) hired SOLARCYCLE COO Robert Vinje as its COO — a SunPower and Amazon energy-operations veteran. Comp: $475K base, 70% target bonus from FY27, $4M FY27 equity award, $250K sign-on cash.

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