Con Edison
Frances Resheske is a former Senior Vice President at Con Edison.
Successful and storied careers are fascinating and the lives of the people who lived them are the ones we all want to know more about. Frances Resheske is known to most in Public Utilities Fortnightly's community. Listen in on what she said about her accomplishments and the future of this amazing industry.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: You were in the utilities industry at Con Edison. What was your role and what did you do on a typical day?
Frances Resheske: There was never a typical day. I was recruited to Con Edison twenty-three years ago by Gene McGrath, then CEO, and he wanted me to build a public affairs department because it was in various pieces and places in the company. He recognized that it was important to have one department.
Twenty-three years later, I have worked with four chairmen and CEOs. I built a department that was enterprise wide and included all our government and regulatory work, energy markets and policy, as well as the communication and philanthropy functions.
Before I left, I built the company's first ever marketing department to focus on energy efficiency, electric vehicles, geothermal, and heat pumps, all part of the future of renewable energy.
PUF: You retired from that job recently.
Frances Resheske: Yes, in September. We announced it in the spring, but I stayed to help the CEO find my successor.