NextEra Energy Partners, LP announced the appointment of Susan Davenport Austin to the board of directors of its general partner. Austin joins as an independent director and as a member of the board's audit and conflicts committees. Since 2014, Austin has been a senior managing director with Brock Capital Group, focusing on strategic and corporate advisory services.

In addition, she continues to serve as vice chairman of Sheridan Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), where she has served in a leadership capacity since joining the company in 2002 as vice president of strategic planning and treasurer. In 2004, Austin became president of the Sheridan Gospel Network and, in 2007, was named senior vice president and chief financial officer of SBC. She was promoted to vice chairman of SBC in 2013.

Prior to joining SBC, Austin spent 10 years in investment banking, specializing in telecommunications and media finance. She was a vice president in the Communications, Media and Entertainment group at Goldman Sachs & Co., where she also managed the execution of financing and merger and acquisition transactions. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Austin worked for Bear, Stearns & Co.

and Salomon Brothers Inc. on multiple financing and merger and acquisition assignments. Austin currently serves as the presiding director of Broadcast Music Inc. She also serves as president of The MacDowell Colony. In addition, Austin is on the boards of the Prudential Variable Annuities Funds and Hubbard Radio.