Celebration 2006 President's Medal Recipient

Frank CassidyFrank Cassidy
President and Chief Operating Officer
PSEG Power LLC
Board of Visitors Chairman, College of Science and Liberal Arts

Frank Cassidy became president and chief operating officer of PSEG Power LLC, on June 15, 1999.  Prior to his appointment to PSEG Power, Mr. Cassidy was president and chief executive officer of PSEG Energy Technologies, effective January 1, 1997. He had been senior vice president   fossil generation of Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) since February 1995, and vice president   transmission systems since November 1989.

Mr. Cassidy joined PSE&G in 1969 and has held various posts of increasing responsibility. He served as general manager   corporate performance and then as general manager – transmission, before his election as a vice president. He has served as PSE&G's representative on the Pennsylvania New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection's Management Committee and Mid Atlantic Area Council. He has testified frequently before the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the United States Senate.

Mr. Cassidy graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Rutgers University. In 1988 he completed the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration's Program for Management Development.

Mr. Cassidy serves on the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee; and on the boards of the Northeast States Center for A Clean Air Future, the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, and the Electric Power Supply Association.