Orville Cocking
Orville Cocking serves as Senior Vice President of Electric Operations.
Prior to joining NIPSCO, Orville was Vice President of Operations for Orange & Rockland Utilities, with responsibility for the company’s gas and electric operations. In this role, he led a team of 650 employees serving approximately 450,000 customers across six counties in New York and northern New Jersey, ensuring the safe, reliable transmission and distribution of both electricity, and in New York only, natural gas.
Previously, Orville was Consolidated Edison Company of New York’s Vice President of Staten Island Electric Operations and Electric Services. He has held numerous positions with increasing responsibility for Con Edison and O&R, including General Manager of Electric Operations, Director of Environmental, Health, and Safety, and Manager of Electric Construction and Transmission Line Maintenance.
During his previous tenure with NIPSCO, Cocking served as Senior Vice President of Gas Operations. Some of Cocking's board involvement includes the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Northwest Indiana and the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies. He also serves on the Purdue University Northwest Chancellor's Board of Advisors.
Orville is based at NIPSCO’s headquarters in Merrillville, Indiana.