Jensen Huang
At some point in 1974, at a boarding school in Kentucky, a ten-year-old boy was cleaning bathrooms every day. He had long hair, a strong Taiwanese accent and shared a room with a seventeen-year-old who was illiterate, covered...
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Emiliano Kargieman
In August 2021, as the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, nearly all available Earth observation satellites had been assigned to American defense agencies. Satellites operated by an Argentine company helped fill that ga...
Mariana Schoua
She joined a recently privatized power generation company in Neuquén in 1994, shortly after graduating as an accountant. Dominion, Duke Energy, Orazul and Aconcagua Energía followed, but she remained. Her career reflects much...
Jane Fraser
Four years after promising to transform Citi, Jane Fraser returned to the bank’s investor day. The first question was whether its culture remained the same. The first perso...
Adolfo Felippa
A taipa is a ridge of earth built by rice farmers to retain water. It is soft by definition and also represents an important part of their capital. A planter that applies too much pressure does not cross it; it destr...
Bjørn Gulden
On a stage in Erlangen, before an audience of engineers, Bjørn Gulden was handed a shoe. Siemens had produced it using a 3D printer and presented it proudly after displaying it at the Hannover Fair. When asked what he thought...
Martín Genesio
The electronics engineer who began at AES selling the output of a power plant built with Chile in mind. In 1999, a 643 MW combined-cycle power plant began operating in Cobo...
Mike Wirth
The morning Chevron reported its results, the stock was up 2%, and the figure stood out: $1.41 per share, compared with the 95 cents the market had expected. Nearly 50% higher. Revenue, however, had fallen short.
Daniel González
With the election just around the corner and a new administration on the horizon, energy-sector CEOs met in September 2019 to make clear what they expected from the incoming government. The next speaker was Daniel González, t...
Horacio Marín
Horacio Marín is the president and chief executive officer of YPF, Argentina’s largest energy company. A chemical engineer who graduated from the National University of La Plata and completed postgraduate studies in the Unite...