Diego Pavia

EIT KIC InnoEnergy

CEO

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