Over the course of his more than 25-year career, he held senior positions in Europe, the US, and South America.
He served as Siemens Spain’s president and CEO and as the head of regional operations in France, Portugal, Italy, and North Africa, among other nations.
Escobar was renowned for promoting sustainability, fostering innovation in rail technology, and accelerating digital transformation in extensive transportation networks.
He also had a corporate strategy position in New York earlier in his career, which strengthened his ties to the crash site.
The global engineering and transportation community has been saddened by his passing as well as those of his wife and kids.
