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Jessie Knight

 
Exec. VP, External Affairs - Sempra Energy
 
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Company Name : Sempra Energy
 
Company Website : www.sempra.com
 
Company Address : 101 Ash St.
, San Diego, CA,
United States,
 
Jessie Knight Profile :
Exec. VP, External Affairs - Sempra Energy
 
Jessie Knight Biography :

Jessie J. Knight Jr. is executive vice president of External Affairs for Sempra Energy, a San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy services holding company whose subsidiaries provide electricity, natural gas and value-added products and services. The Sempra Energy companies' 14,000 employees serve 29 million consumers in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America and Asia.

Before joining Sempra Energy in 2006, Knight served for seven years as president and chief executive officer of the 2,800-member San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, representing more than 400,000 employees, the largest business group in California and the third-largest chamber of commerce in the Western United States.

From 1993 to 1999, Knight served as commissioner for the California Public Utilities Commission, after being appointed by then-Governor Pete Wilson. The agency has regulatory oversight for California's energy, telecommunications, railroad, transportation and water industries.

Prior to his appointment as CPUC commissioner, Knight was executive vice president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, where he was responsible for international operations, economic development and business development for the chamber's 2,100 businesses.

Knight began his corporate career in 1975 with Dole Food Co. Inc., where he worked 10 years in both domestic and international operations, but spent most of his time as director of Marketing for the U.S. and Canadian pineapple business, Dole's largest subsidiary.

From 1985 until 1992, Knight was vice president of Marketing for The San Francisco Chronicle and The San Francisco Examiner newspapers, overseeing business-to-business and circulation marketing, research and strategic planning. While there, he won five national Clio Awards for television, radio and print advertising, and a Cannes Film Festival Golden Lion Award for business marketing.

Knight serves on a number of community and corporate boards of directors. He has a bachelor's degree from St. Louis University and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin.



 
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