Lisa Davis

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Lisa Davis (born October 15, 1963 in the USA ) is an American manager and chemical engineer. She has been a member of the Siemens Executive Board since August 2014, where she is Head of the Siemens Energy Sector .

Lisa Davis is the first board member of Siemens to work in the USA, in Houston , Texas . At Siemens, she is Michael Süß's successor . According to media reports, she is the highest-paid manager of a German company.

Life

Davis studied chemical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley , graduating with a bachelor's degree . From 1985 she was an engineer at Chevron , in the Production Region West department. In 1986 she moved to Exxon Corporation , and from 1987 she worked as an engineer in business development at Texaco . At Texaco she became an engineer in the process department in 1990 and manager in operational planning from 1993. In 1996 she became Operations Manager at Texaco. From 1998 she worked for Royal Dutch Shell , initially in the USA and later in London.

At Shell, she was initially Vice President for Operations and Maintenance at Shell Oil Products , and from 2000 then Vice President for Strategy & Portfolio. After several other positions at Shell in the USA and Europe, she was most recently Executive Vice President for Strategy, Portfolio & Alternative Energies at Shell, based in London, from 2012 , where she worked directly under the Management Board. Since 2014 she has been responsible for Power and Gas , Wind Power and Renewables and Power Generation Services at Siemens .

According to media reports, Siemens brought her to the executive board because Siemens wants to participate in the North American shale gas boom through hydraulic fracturing . At the same time, it is to integrate the Dresser-Rand company , which was taken over by Siemens in 2014.

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  1. According to a report by Rüdiger Köhn in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, she earns 4.6 million euros per year, see This is Germany's best-paid manager, FAZ January 5, 2015 (online), print version January 6