Caroline A. Winn
Ms. Winn has over 35 years’ experience in the public utility industry. She has been the Chief Executive Officer of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), a subsidiary of Sempra, since August 2020. As CEO, she is responsible for managing an organization of 4,700 employees and over $2 billion of annual capital investments. She served as Chief Operating Officer of SDG&E from January 1, 2017 to July 2020. In prior executive roles at SDG&E, she has led multiple strategic initiatives, including architecting SDG&E’s wildfire mitigation program, orchestrating the transformation of its customer service organization, taking control of supply chain and streamlining procurement and logistics activities, and launched multi-million-dollar revenue streams. She spent the early years of her tenure at SDG&E and Sempra in technically complex engineering and construction roles.
Ms. Winn sits on the board of directors of SDG&E. She also has served as the chair of the Western Energy Institute beginning in 2020, a member of the board of directors and audit committee of the Kayne Anderson closed end energy fund (KYN) beginning in 2020 and a member of the management council of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce beginning in 2022. She is active in a number of charitable organizations, including serving as the vice chair of the Monarch School since 2019, a school dedicated to homeless students and services for families in need. She is a member of the directors’ council of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography beginning in 2019 and a board and audit committee member of St. Vincent DePaul Father Joe’s Villages, a non-profit organization serving the homeless in San Diego, beginning in 2021. She is also leading/chairing the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign in 2024.
Ms. Winn holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from California State University Sacramento and is a licensed professional engineer in California.