Adrianne Collins » Board Members

Adrianne Collins is senior vice president of Supply Chain Management and chief

procurement officer at Southern Company. She leads an organization of more than

650 employees dedicated to providing innovative supply chain solutions across the

Southern Company system. In this role, she provides direction for the company’s

supply chain organization, including category management, contracting, procurement, supplier inclusion, logistics,

inventory optimization, warehousing and asset disposition. She oversees more than $10 billion annually in

purchasing of services and materials to enable the system in providing clean, safe, reliable, affordable and resilient

energy.

Prior to her current role, Collins was senior vice president of Power Delivery. In that role, she led the Transmission

Planning, Bulk Power Operations, Energy Management Systems and Transmission Policy and Services

organizations. Collins worked with key industry bodies to advance energy policy.

Previously, Collins was Gulf Power’s vice president of Power Delivery and led the Distribution, Transmission and

Supply Chain Management organizations at the former Southern Company subsidiary.

She co-led the Southern Company Power Delivery coordination of restoration in Puerto Rico following Hurricane

Maria. When Hurricane Michael devastated portions of northwest Florida, she was the executive lead for the

response to the unprecedented storm. As Transmission general manager, she led the largest power grid expansion

program in Gulf Power’s history.

After joining the Southern Company system in 1998 as a distribution engineer at Gulf Power, Collins went on to

hold a number of key engineering and leadership roles at Gulf Power and subsidiary Georgia Power.

Collins received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida. She is highly engaged

in the industry, serving on the executive committee of the Sustainable Supply Chain Alliance (SSCA) and on the

Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Chief Procurement Officers Executive Committee. She previously served as chair of

the North American Transmission Forum (NATF), vice-chair of the NERC Reliability Issues Steering Committee

(RISC) and served on the SERC Board of Directors.

In the community, Adrianne has served in several impactful roles that include board trustee for the University of

West Florida and chair of the Academic Affairs Committee; board president for Ronald McDonald House Charities;

and board member of the Fayette Care Clinic. She is an executive mentor for Momentum, an organization for

women leaders in the Birmingham, Alabama area.