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In a sector known for advancing leading-edge risk mitigation strategies, CFO Rejji Hayes offers a risk-minded response to those who ask why he steered his career into the power and energy sector.

\u201cI had this epiphany where I said \u2018It would be nice to find (a sector) that\u2019s was a little less cyclical and a little less transactional.\u2019 \u2026 And people generally need heat and electricity irrespective of economic cycles,\u201d explains Hayes, who exited an investment banking career in 2009 to join the treasury function of energy giant Exelon before blazing a path to the CFO office at CMS Energy of Jackson, Michigan.

Today, Hayes illuminates the CMS risk mindset by emphasizing the value of risk mitigation opportunities: \u201cDuring the course of the year - whether its weather developments, adverse regulatory outcomes or other downside cases - \xa0we try to identify enough risk mitigating opportunities to offset those risks,\u201d explains Hayes. Join us when Hayes retraces his steps to the CFO office and lists his priorities for the year ahead.