Education and a Strong Support System Helped a Norristown Native Achieve His CEO Dreams

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Lloyd Yates Norristown.
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Lloyd Yates, president and chief execute officer of NiSource, a large utility company based in Columbus, Ohio, is living a life he didn’t realize possible while growing up in Norristown, writes MediaNews Group for The Times Herald.

He lived on Oak Street with his family and attended Norristown Area High School. He recalled days spent hanging out at the PAL after school and enjoying an occasional Zep from Lou’s.

Yates called his first two years of high school his “bad period”. He would skip class and find ways to get into trouble. Luckily though, his parents continued to press upon him the importance of education.

They wanted him to make a better life for himself, but he never dreamed that he would one day be a CEO. It was just not something he and his friends could have ever imagined.

“People in town didn’t know these jobs existed, didn’t see them as attainable, in fact they didn’t even see them as possible,” Yates said.

After buckling down in his last two years of high school, Yates was accepted to the University of Pittsburgh where he studied engineering.

His parents worked a lot of overtime to make sure all three of their children received the education they never had.

Today, Yates has a corner office and oversees one of the largest fully regulated utilities companies in the United States.

What does he credit to all his success? He said, it was “a little hard work, the willingness to want to be educated and a great support system.”

Read more about Llyod Yates in The Times Herald.

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