Lisa A. Davis (born October 15, 1963) is an American businesswoman, the chair of Siemens Corporation (USA) since January 2017.[1] Davis was a member of the managing board of Siemens,[2] and global CEO of Siemens Gas and Power Operating Company.[3]
Lisa Davis was born in the US on October 15, 1963.[4] She earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.[4]
After graduating from university, Davis became an engineer for ExxonMobil, where she managed operations at the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, and later worked for Texaco and Royal Dutch Shell.[5]
In November 2016, it was announced that Davis would succeed Eric Spiegel as CEO of Siemens USA following his retirement at the end of the year.[6]
In 2018, she was assessed as being the 37th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[7] [8] After profits in Siemens' energy division went down by 75% in 2018, the company decided to separate the division into its own company. In 2019, she became co-CEO of Siemens Gas and Power Operating Company.[9] She left the Siemens managing board in February 2020 to support Siemens CEO Kaeser until her contract expired in October 2020.[10]