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Richard A. Vaccari is vice president of Mergers and Acquisitions 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' 13,500 employees serve more than 29 million consumers worldwide. In his current job, Vaccari is responsible for all strategic-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 natural 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 | 