CEO
Sempra Energy
2011 rank: 45
Age: 56
Reed succeeded Donald Felsinger as CEO of the $10-billion-in-revenue energy-services company last summer; the two have worked together since Sempra's inception in 1998. In June, Reed launched the Sunrise Powerlink, a $1.8 billion project that uses a 500,000-volt transmission line to link San Diego to the Imperial Valley.
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