Kay's first 18 years in business were spent at Scott Paper. Following the merger of Scott Paper Company and Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Kay chose to join Delmarva Power, a Fortune 500 Investor Owned utility as it was creating new strategic business units in the face of deregulation.

Additionally, Kay is a founding principal of Ethics Alliance, which provides an independent, alternative source of information to corporate boards. The result is an early warning system allowing risk to be reduced and investor confidence to be strengthened.

Kay was the fifth president of Wilmington Women in Business and is a past president of the Delaware Forum of Executive Women. She presents regularly on the topic of relationship building and growing your business. She has presented to the International Product Development and Management Conference on "How Does a Package Goods Marketer Become a Service Marketer?" as well as for the annual meeting for the Society of Competitive Professionals and "Writing a Winning Business Plan" at the national Profitability Conference for Utilities.

She is active with the Episcopal Church and lives in Trolley Square section of Wilmington, Delaware, with her spouse, Bryan. They are the proud parents of two daughters; one who is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania and the other is a first year student at DePauw University. Kay serves on a number of not for profit boards and loves to help boards find the right people for their needs.