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Richard A. Vaccari is vice president of Corporate Development for Sempra Energy a San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy services holding company whose subsidiaries provide electricity and natural gas 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 current job Vaccari is responsible for all corporate-development activities.
Prior to this Vaccari was vice president of Sempra Global the umbrella for Sempra's businesses operating in competitive energy markets where he managed development for those businesses. He also was the managing director of Sempra Partners an equity fund that teams with financial and energy counterparts to acquire attractive gas and power assets.
Prior to joining Sempra Energy in 2003 Vaccari spent more than 20 years in investment banking focusing mainly on the power sector. He began his career at Goldman Sachs as vice president of the Public Utility Group and served as a managing director in the Global Power Group at Merrill Lynch. He was last at Credit Suisse First Boston where he was a managing director in the energy group.
Vaccari has a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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