Pepco Holdings, Inc., Cited for Leadership in Diversity

Here's a great example of how leadership, diversity and training help to develop electric service to more than 750,000 residential and commercial customers in Washington, D.C., and Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland.

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pepco Holdings, Inc., (NYSE:POM) has been recognized as one of Black Enterprise Magazine’s 40 Best Companies for Diversity in employee programs and business practices for the fourth consecutive year. This award, the second in two months from a major national publication, honors PHI as one of the industry’s premier leaders in diversity.

Black Enterprise Magazine believes top companies who demand diversity and inclusion create the programs, systems and tracking necessary to fully incorporate their business model.

“PHI’s strategy for success begins with leadership’s commitment to diversity development programs that are aligned with our corporate business planning, best practices research, and proven business principles,” said Joy Dorsey, PHI’s Director of Diversity and Supplier Diversity.

PHI was also cited for providing domestic partner benefits for both same-sex and opposite-sex partners. In April, PHI was named one of DiversityInc Magazine’s Top Five Utility Companies for Diversity in employee programs and business practices.

Black Enterprise based its selection on four key areas: supplier diversity, board of directors, senior management, and employee base. Companies responded to over 200 survey questions which were evaluated by a 10-member panel of independent diversity experts.

Read more on what Pepco's Director of Diversity, Joy J. Dorsey also has to say.


About PHI:

Pepco Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Washington, D.C., delivers electricity and natural gas to about 1.9 million customers in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland and New Jersey, through its subsidiaries Pepco, Delmarva Power and Atlantic City Electric. PHI also provides competitive wholesale generation services through Conectiv Energy and retail energy products and services through Pepco Energy Services.

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