CEO Today Business Women of the Year Awards

43 www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today Business Women of the Year Awards 2018 USA DEBRA REED Executive Chairman of Sempra Energy ABOUT DEBRA REED Debra L. Reed is executive chairman of Sempra Energy. Reed served as chief executive officer of Sempra Energy from 2011 to 2018 and, since 2017, also served as the company’s president. Prior to that, she was executive vice president of Sempra Energy. From 2006 to 2010, she served as president and chief executive officer of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas), Sempra Energy’s regulated California utilities. From 2004 to 2006, Reed was president and chief operating officer of SDG&E and SoCalGas and, before that, president of SDG&E and chief financial officer of both companies. She joined SoCalGas in 1978 and became the company’s first female officer 10 years later. From 2011 to 2017, she was recognized as one of Fortune magazine’s “Most Powerful Women in Business.” Reed also was recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the nation’s most influential female CEOs. In 2014, the U.S. Secretary of Energy appointed Reed to the National Petroleum Council, a privately funded, federally chartered industry advisory board to the federal government on matters pertaining to oil and natural gas industries. Reed serves on the boards of directors of Halliburton Co. and Caterpillar Inc. She also is a member of the board of directors of Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC. She is a member of The Business Council and the Business Roundtable, where she serves on the Energy and Environment Committee and the Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee. Both associations are composed of chief executive officers of leading U.S. corporations. She is a member of The Trusteeship, an affiliate of the International Women’s Forum. Additionally, she serves on the Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center Board of Trustees and Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego Board of Directors, the board of councilors of the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering and the Chairman’s Competitiveness Council of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, where she formerly served as chair. Previously, she served on the boards of directors of Genentech and Avery Dennison Corp. Reed graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. FIRM PROFILE Companies Sharing a Powerful Purpose Sempra Energy utility and infrastructure companies are on a collective mission to maintain long-term sustainable growth. By operating regulated utilities and developing smart energy infrastructure that serve communities around the world, we cohesively execute on a clear corporate strategy of providing safe, reliable energy to our customers while increasing value for all of our stakeholders — from investors and industry partners to customers and employees. 40 million electric and natural gas consumers worldwide 20,000 employees across the Sempra Energy family of companies 3,700 megawatts of clean-burning natural gas and renewable energy generating capacity www.sempra.com