He joined the company in February 2016 as Chief Executive Officer after pursuing a long career at BP, where he served as executive chairman for Spain and Portugal (2012-14), director of the Whiting refinery (2015) and Carson refinery (2009-2011) in the United States, and of the Castellón refinery (2005-2008).He earned his Bachelor’s in industrial engineering at the Higher Technical School for Industrial Engineering (ETSII) of the Polytechnic University of Madrid and a Master of Science in Engineering at Stanford University (USA), and has extensive experience in operational, executive, strategic and corporate management garnered while holding management positions in five different countries.

Since he was appointed, Lanza has driven the company’s diversification and international expansion in addition to fostering the automation and digitalisation of its activities and the transformation of its systems with the aim of harnessing synergies, creating a more integrated way of working and adapting to today’s energy transition period