Inderpal Deol is vice president of Energy Supply for DTE Electric, where she is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the company’s non-nuclear electric generation facilities, including Renewable Energy operations, the company’s state-of-the-art Blue Water Energy Center and the two remaining coal-fired power plants. She is also responsible for engineering and capital projects, NERC Compliance, and Security Governance organizations within the Energy Supply business unit. Deol has worked for DTE Energy for 18 years and has served in a variety of leadership positions supporting operations, including fuel supply manager, production manager, continuous improvement manager and plant manager. 

Prior to joining DTE in 2006, Deol served at Ford Motor Company in many capacities in the operations environment where she was responsible for supplier quality programs, new vehicle launch, vehicle production and development and roll out of Quality Operating System strategies. Earlier in her career she held positions at Rouge Steel Company as a manufacturing process engineer and a laboratory engineer. 

Deol earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Wayne State University, holds a master’s degree in engineering management and product development from the University of Detroit Mercy, and received an Executive MBA from Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She is also a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. 

In addition to serving on the board of Michigan Women Forward, she is very active as an executive committee member of the Sikh Foundation and has served on the board of trustees for the Promedica Monroe Regional Hospital.

Outside of her role at DTE, Deol enjoys traveling with her husband and two sons and gardening.