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Susana Quintana-Plaza is the Chief Executive Officer of BM2Solar and a Partner at the United Kingdom-based private equity firm Next47. Previously, she served as the Chief Operating Officer of Renewables and New Business at Galp Energia SGPS SA, where she built the firm's renewables division and oversaw the construction of a lithium refinery in Portugal. Her corporate leadership experience also includes tenures as Senior Vice President of Technology and Innovation at E.ON SE and early career engineering roles at Boeing and General Electric. Since May 2023, she has held advisory and board positions at Emerald VC and the publicly listed Hexagon Purus ASA, having earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and aeronautical engineering degrees from the University of Washington. Quintana-Plaza focuses her investments and executive leadership on advancing clean power, decentralized energy systems, and next-generation battery storage technologies.