Kenji Coleman

Southern California Edison
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​Kenji Coleman worked at Southern California Edison (SCE) for 29 years as a Senior Manager in the Transmission and Distribution (T&D) business unit. Kenji led the Transmission Project Management group and was responsible for customer requested movement of SCE’s electric facilities. Typically multi-year, multi-million dollar projects with cities, counties, or large customers, Kenji’s projects included the CA High Speed Rail, Space Shuttle move, all Caltrans freeway expansions, and Metro/Rail requests.

Within both SCE and Edison International, Kenji’s experience includes working in:

• Project Management (Manager),
• District Management (Manager of construction crews, yard management, and planning/design),
• Audits (Manager),
• Customer Service (Major Account Executive),
• Strategic Business Planning,
• Emergency Preparedness and Business Resiliency, and 
• Human Resources

Kenji’s greatest passion is non-profit service, mentoring, and providing financial education to the locally underserved in LA and Orange County. His volunteer service includes:

• SCE Federal Credit Union (non-profit, board),
• Business for Social Responsibility (global non-profit, board),
• California Governor’s OES (steering committee), and
• Center for Financial Empowerment (non-profit, board).

In addition, Kenji has experience as an entrepreneur. He started a corporation that manages small residential properties, purchasing, renovating, and selling them. Kenji owned and managed as many as 19 units at once.
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Kenji graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a Masters in Business Administration in the top 4% of his class. He graduated from the University of Redlands with a Bachelor in Business, graduating Magna Cum Laude. Notably, Kenji has received the Wall Street Journal Business Award.