WHAT MAKES SEMPRA’S ETHICS AND COMPLIANCE CULTURE UNIQUE?
I think a good way to answer that question is to discuss Randall Peterson who, until recently, was our Chief Compliance Officer. He used to report to me until a few weeks ago when we decided that he would be very valuable to serve as the chief transition officer at a company we bought called Energy South, which has gas storage operations in the Gulf as well as a gas utility in Mobile, Alabama. We thought that somebody who could deliver our ethics and value system to a company that we just bought some weeks ago would be very important, so Randall has moved to Mobile for that purpose as well as integrating that company into Sempra as a whole. We also have a corporate-wide compliance committee which I chair, and whose members include all the business unit and function heads. I will tell you that the person who really runs the committee in terms of passion is our Chief Operating Officer and President, Neal Schmale. The fact is that he feels very strongly that operational excellence in ever
