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Suzanne West

Thought leader, visionary, change-agent, entrepreneur, engineer, "AND" Master, philanthropist, accountable inhabitant of planet

I am President and CEO of Imaginea Energy. I am an engineer and a serial entrepreneur and Imaginea is my fifth oil and gas producing company that I have built from scratch. Imaginea Energy however has a different vision and mandate. Imaginea stands for Imagine A new way of doing business. We are pioneering a new kind of energy company that values all three of Planet, People, and Profit. It is focused on "AND" solutions, which brings together diversity into powerful transformations of what we can achieve. Our vision is to produce clean hydrocarbons and clean hydrocarbon energy without emissions, without pollution and without the use of fresh water. I am one of very few women CEO's in this industry and have created over the years a new kind of organizational model that is based in self-mastery, entrepreneurial thinking, systems thinking, collaboration, innovation, and tapping into people's potential for ingenuity, productivity and our humanity. We are embarking on an extraordinary journey to breakdown all the industry paradigms that have been holding us stuck in the past - to change from limiting "OR" solutions to many "AND" possibilities, to change from hyper-competitiveness to extreme collaborators, to change from protectionism to open source, to change from "fixed pie" mentality to "abundance" mindset, to change from linear/Newtonian thinking to quantum integration, and to change from being consistent polluters to becoming a force for good.