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Mark A. Snell is executive vice president and chief financial officer 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 more than 29 million consumers in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America and Asia.
In his former job as group president of Sempra Global, the umbrella group for Sempra Energy's unregulated businesses, Snell oversaw all aspects of Sempra Global as it expands its global presence in competitive energy markets, including energy trading, electrical generation, liquefied natural gas, pipelines and storage facilities, international utilities and retail energy marketing.
Before becoming group president, Snell was chief financial officer of Sempra Global overseeing the planning, business development and all financial matters for the group.
Prior to his role with Sempra Global, Snell was vice president of Planning and Development for Sempra Energy.
Before joining Sempra Energy in 2001, Snell served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Earth Tech, a Long Beach, Calif.-based water management, engineering and environmental-services firm. Earth Tech specializes in the design, building and operation of water and wastewater treatment facilities.
Before joining Earth Tech, Snell was executive vice president and chief financial officer at Dames and Moore, an international engineering and construction firm headquartered in Los Angeles. At Dames and Moore, Snell guided the completion of acquisitions that more than doubled the firm’s revenues.
Snell also served as chief financial and administrative office for Latham & Watkins, a law firm with more than 1,600 partners and employees worldwide. He also served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of World Oil Corp., a privately held, integrated oil company. As a senior manager at the Los Angeles office of KPMG Peat Marwick, Snell supervised activities that supported acquisitions by client companies.
Snell has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from San Diego State University and is a certified public accountant.
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