NES CEO to join Pinnacle board

Decosta Jenkins

The directors of Pinnacle Financial Partners have elected longtime Nashville Electric Service President and CEO Decosta Jenkins to join them at the beginning of March. Jenkins will be the bank holding company’s 17th board member.

Jenkins joined NES in 1991 as a senior vice president and CFO after working for more than a decade at Deloitte. He was named CEO in 2004 and has since overseen the utility’s growth to $1.4 billion in revenues.