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.