Mike Segal

Founder & Chairman

Mike Segal founded LS Power in 1990 and serves as Chairman of LS Power.

Mr. Segal has five decades of experience in the power industry. Under his leadership, LS Power has grown to become one of the largest independent power and energy infrastructure developers in the United States involved in the development of conventional generation and renewable power plants, as well as major transmission projects across the nation. Prior to LS Power, Mr. Segal served as Co-Head of Commercial Union Energy Corporation, where he led their investments in power generation projects. Before that, Mr. Segal was President of The Energy Systems Company, a private developer of cogeneration projects. He also held various positions, including General Manager of Power Generation and Systems Planning, with LEMCO Engineers, Inc. in St. Louis, Missouri. Prior to LEMCO, Mr. Segal worked for the Department of Energy in the former Soviet Union.

Mr. Segal received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute in the Ukraine. He immigrated to the United States in 1978 and is a United States citizen.