Francisco Paniagua Roncero

Head of Safety, Quality and Environment Europe
KONE
Francisco Paniagua has been working in KONE for 25 years. Currently, he is the Head of Quality, Safety and Environment for Europe. His career has been developed in different positions, firstly, in KONE Iberica as Installation Director, Operations Director and Maintenance Director, then, he took the position of Customer Experience and Quality and Environment Director for South Europe, Middle East and Africa. Finally, he extended his role to the whole European Countries, his current position. Francisco is an Industrial Engineer who loves both KONE vision and mission in such an international and diverse context within the company. Francisco will focus on his own experience working and leading international teams in all the positions he has held during the 25 years at KONE. He has worked with 37 countries where more than 45 languages are spoken. Although KONE's global language is English the use of local languages plays a key role when it comes to working with different countries.