Kenji Coleman

Retired - Southern California Edison

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

Kenji graduated Cal Poly Pomona with a Master in Business Administration in the top 4% of his class. He graduated University of Redlands with a Bachelor in Business. Kenji graduate Magna Cum Laude, and received the Wall Street Journal Business Award.

Kenji has experience as an entrepreneur. He started a corporation that manages small residential properties; and purchases, renovates, and sells them. Kenji owned and managed as many as 19 units at once.

Kenji Coleman worked at SCE for 29 years and retired in 2019. He was a Senior Manager in the T&D business unit. Kenji led the Transmission Project Management group.  Responsible for customer requested movement of SCE’s electric facilities. Typically multi-year, multi-million dollar projects with cities, counties, or large customers.  Projects included CA High Speed Rail, Space Shuttle move, and all Caltrans freeway expansions, and Metro/Rail requests.

Mr. Coleman worked at both SCE, and Edison International. His 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