Leadership

Robert D. Sloan, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Robert D. Sloan joined Entergy Corporation in 2003. Before joining Entergy, he was vice president and general counsel at GE Industrial Systems.

Sloan, a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School, has over 30 years of legal experience, both in the United States and abroad.

Prior to his role at GE Industrial Systems, in which he managed legal issues related to mergers and acquisitions, litigation, compliance programs, intellectual property issues and overall strategic legal and business counseling, Sloan was a managing partner in the Brussels office of McKenna and Cuneo LLP from 1993-1998.

From 1985-1992, Sloan was vice president and director of the Sovereign Credit Management Division at the First National Bank of Chicago and later a partner with the Pepper, Hamilton & Sheetz law firm in Washington, D.C. From 1981-84, he was general counsel of the Multinational Force and Observers, the Sinai peacekeeping organization operating within the framework of the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1979. From 1977-81, Sloan worked on nuclear non-proliferation and politico-military matters in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Legal Adviser. Prior to this position, he was general counsel to the Minority at the U. S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Sloan has been an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law Center in Washington D.C. He currently serves on the Board of the Center for International Business Education at the University of Michigan and on the Board of the New Orleans Ballet Theatre.

Updated 6/06