Susana Quintana-Plaza

Executive Board Member and COO at Galp Energia

She began her career at the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group as Flight Operations Engineer between 1998 and 2000, later in 2000 and 2004 she assumed the position of Product Marketing Analyst and Product Marketing Team Leader. From 2014 to 2016 she held the position of Senior Vice-President of Technology and Innovation at E.ON SE, having previously held a position of Head of Strategy, Business Development Manager from 2009 to 2011, also acting as Senior Strategy and Business Development Manager in 2011 at E.ON Climate & Renewables. From 2016 to the beginning of 2019, she took the position of Partner at next47 (Siemens’ CVC organization). From 2018 to the beginning of 2019, she has also been member of the Supervisory Board at Hexagon Composites ASA & Wirecard AG. Susana Quintana-Plaza holds a degree and Master’s in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Washington. She also holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.