Board of Directors
Mark Webb
Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer
Dominion Energy
Mark O. Webb is senior vice president and chief
innovation officer and also oversees Dominion
Energy’s enterprise risk program.
He is responsible for all efforts to foster innovation,
creativity and development in Dominion Energy’s
people, processes and strategies for a sustainable
future. Dominion Energy’s Innovation team focuses on
four fundamental drivers of the energy future: the rise
of distributed resources, zero-carbon mobility, using
data and computing power as an energy resource,
and the interlock between energy and sustainability.
Prior to his current role, Webb worked in multiple roles
at Dominion Energy after joining the company in 1997
as an assistant general counsel supporting the
company’s unregulated operations at Dominion Capital, Dominion Lands and
international energy investments. In 2004, he was promoted to deputy general
counsel overseeing corporate securities, finance, and mergers and acquisitions.
From 2009 to 2011, Webb served as director–Policy & Business Development in
Alternative Energy Solutions, where he helped develop Dominion’s Virginia
offshore wind strategy and the acquisition of offshore development rights off the
coast of Virginia. He also helped initiate policy and regulatory initiatives to
advance transportation electrification.
In 2013, Webb assumed the responsibilities of vice president and general
counsel and became senior vice president–Corporate Affairs and chief legal
officer in 2017. During his time in those roles, he was instrumental in advancing
multiple legislative initiatives, including legislation supporting investments to
extend the life of Dominion’s four zero-carbon nuclear energy units and the
comprehensive 2017 Grid Transformation and Security Act.
Prior to joining Dominion, he was an associate at Andrews & Kurth in Houston
from 1993 to 1995 and at Hunton & Williams in Richmond from 1995 to 1997.
Webb currently serves on the boards of directors of the YMCA of Central
Virginia, the Richmond Performing Arts Alliance and the Dominion Energy
Innovation Center Incubator.
He is a graduate of Texas Christian University and earned his law degree from
the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.