Gesa Netzeband is Manager of Digital Portfolio of Wintershall DEA.
Following the completion of the merger between Wintershall and DEA in May 2019, Wintershall DEA is now the leading independent gas and oil company in Europe.
Gesa had joined DEA 11 years ago as exploration geoscientist and has been working in various positions since. She has led multi-disciplinary teams in exploration and business development projects in different countries, inside and outside Europe. In the last years she has been increasingly involved in large international projects in Global Exploration as well as on strategic corporate level.
In May 2019 Gesa took the position of portfolio lead in the newly formed Digital Transformation team. In this role she is coordinating all digital projects globally across the company and driving the post-merger integration process.
She is an advocate of new ways of working and deeply engaged in changing the way we work at Wintershall Dea.
Gesa holds a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Hamburg.