Kay N. Clinard, PE, is President of UCA International Users Group. UCA International is a non-profit users group comprised of organizations involved in the electric utility industry that share a common goal of Advancing Interoperability for the Utility Enterprise. Kay is also President of KCAssociates, an engineering consulting firm serving electric utilities. Kay has been an advisor for DistribuTECH since it's beginning, is an Editor for IEC61850, and has written a number of papers on Automating the Utility.

Prior to founding KCA and UCAIug, Kay worked for seven years with KEMA Consulting (formerly ECC) as a Principal Consultant. Four years with ESCA, as a Project and Account Manager, and twenty-five years with Carolina Power and Light Co. as Principal Engineer responsible for Distribution Research.