Kathleen T. Ellis | Advisory Board

Kathleen Ellis serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of New Jersey Natural Gas. Ms. Ellis joined New Jersey Resources (NJR) in 2004 and is responsible for the delivery of energy and customer service to nearly half a million residential and business customers. Additionally, she oversees the development and successful implementation of marketing strategy and new business development, long- and short-term communication, regulatory, government relations and environmental policies and strategies, and the development and implementation of all customer and community relations programs. Before joining NJR, Ms. Ellis was Director of Communications for Governor James E. McGreevey. She also has served as Director of Government Relations and Communications for Newark, NJ-based Public Service Electric and Gas, one of the largest combined electric and gas companies in the United States.

Ms. Ellis is an alumna of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton with a degree in economics.

She serves as President of the Board of Directors for 180 Turning Lives Around and is an Advisory Board member of Meridian Hospitals Corporation, PAM's List - New Jersey and New Jersey Future, serving as Secretary and an Executive Committee member. Ms. Ellis is also an Advisory Board member of Interfaith Neighbors, Inc., in Asbury Park and the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance Advisory Committee at Rutgers’ Bloustein School.