Executive Profiles

Richard C. Kelly

Chairman, President and CEO

Richard (Dick) Kelly is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Xcel Energy. From June to mid-December 2005 he served as president and chief executive officer; from October 2003 until June 2005, he was Xcel Energy’s chief operating officer, and previous to that he served as chief financial officer.

Prior to the 2000 merger of New Century Energies (NCE) and Northern States Power Company to form Xcel Energy, Kelly served as NCE's chief financial officer, having held a variety of finance-related positions at Public Service Company of Colorado before it merged with Southwestern Public Service Company to form NCE.

He is second vice-chairman of the Edison Electric Institute, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum of Minnesota and a board member of the Capital City Partnership, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), Canadian Pacific Railway, the Minnesota Orchestra, and Regis University, and a director on the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.

Kelly is a member of the Minnesota Business Partnership, the National Petroleum Council, Colorado Concern and Colorado Forum and the National Advisory Council of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Kelly earned both a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree in accounting from Regis University. He attended the University of Colorado’s Executive Education Conference and the University of Michigan’s Public Utility Executive Program.