Management Profile

Ms. Delores Holley - Vice President

Delores Holley is the former Supplier Diversity Administrator at Northeast Utilities (NU) Service Company. Her overall responsibility was to manage NU’s small business program, which includes small, minority and women-owned businesses.

Ms. Holley served on the Board of Directors of CMSDC for eight years before joining CMSDC staff in 2001. Ms Holley served as the former chairperson of the Connecticut Minority Supplier Development Council. She also held the position of secretary and chairperson for the programs committee. She has held the positions of Loan Executive for the United Way (Hartford area) and board member of the University of Connecticut Teenage Minority Entrepreneurship Program (Connecticut). Presently, Ms. Holley sits on the board of the Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) in New Britain, Connecticut, serves as a NAACP member and volunteers for Northeast Utilities’ Winter Special Olympics Program.

In 1999, Ms. Holley received the “Advocate of the Year” award from the Connecticut Minority Supplier Development Council.

Ms. Holley graduated from Post College, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Business.