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Chief Executive Officer – EIT InnoEnergy

Diego Pavía graduated as electrical engineer, specialising in electronics and automation from the Polytechnical University of Madrid. His first professional experience, in 1988, was as co-founder and CEO of a start-up called: Knowledge Engineering. The start-up dealt with industrial controls systems using artificial intelligence and neural networks. Three years later he joined Sema Group (shortly after renamed: SchlumbergerSema), and started a long career with private companies.

At SchlumbergerSema, Diego headed multicultural working groups all over the world in the field of energy, with revenues of $650M. Between 2002 and 2010, Diego was the CEO of Atos Origin, a leading international IT service provider, where he was responsible for Spain and South America, about 9,000 employees, and an annual turnover of €450M.

Diego has been CEO of EIT InnoEnergy, since 2010. As a serial entrepreneur, Diego has created seven companies in his lifetime.