SAN DIEGO, Sept. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- For the sixth
consecutive year, Fortune magazine has named Debra L. Reed, chairman and CEO of Sempra Energy
(NYSE: SRE), to the magazine's "Most Powerful Women in Business"
list.
Reed is ranked No. 22 in 2016, up from No. 23 last year.
Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" was launched
in 1998 to recognize the most successful women in the
nation.
In compiling the list, Fortune's editors consider four
criteria: the size and importance of the woman's business in the
global economy; the health and direction of the business; the arc
of the woman's career; and social and cultural influence.
Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" list is now
available online.
Reed, 60, has served as Sempra Energy's CEO since 2011 and as
the company's chairman since 2012. She has spent her entire
38-year career with the Sempra Energy companies. Previously,
Reed was executive vice president of Sempra Energy. From 2006
to 2010, she served as president and CEO of San Diego Gas &
Electric (SDG&E) and Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas),
Sempra Energy's two California
utilities. Reed first joined SoCalGas in 1978 and became the
company's first female officer 10 years later. She holds a
bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of
Southern California.
Sempra Energy's four principal subsidiaries are SDG&E,
SoCalGas, Sempra U.S. Gas & Power and Sempra International.
Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), based in San Diego, is a
Fortune 500 energy services holding company with 2015
revenues of more than $10 billion. The Sempra Energy
companies' 17,000 employees serve more than 32 million consumers
worldwide.
Sempra International, LLC, Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, LLC,
and Sempra Partners, LP, are not the same companies as
the California utilities, San Diego Gas & Electric
(SDG&E) or Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), and
Sempra International, LLC, Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, LLC, and
Sempra Partners, LP, are not regulated by the California Public
Utilities Commission. Sempra International's underlying entities
include Sempra Mexico and Sempra South American Utilities. Sempra
U.S. Gas & Power's underlying entities include Sempra
Renewables and Sempra Natural Gas.
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