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Pedro Santos

MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from MIT Sloan School of Management, BS in International Business Administration. & marketing from Rochester Institute of Technology, Founder, CEO/CTO at OsComp Systems Inc since 2009.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.oscomp-systems.com
Industries: Cleantech, Food and Drink, Retail, Travel
Skills: Business, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, French, German, Industrial Engineering, Italian, Languages, Leadership, Management, Portuguese, Public speaking, Sales, Spanish
Location: Cambridge, MA
Groups: CCE 2010 Investor Pitches, Desafío Intel & Intel Challenge Alumni, Desafio Intel Regional Finals 2010, Desafio Intel® , Desafío Intel® Latin America General 2010
Interested in: Finding business partners, Finding engineers, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Growing my group, Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup
Tags: compression, natural gas, oscomp
Schools: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: OSCOMP-SYSTEMS INC
Position: Founder, CEO/CTO
Time period: December 2009 - Present
Description: Developed pipeline of projects with a total net value of $45 million USD
Negotiated and closed on service contracts for 41 plant-site inspections to be executed in 2009-2010

Employer: AER-POWERSOURCE
Position: Founder and CEO
Time period: April 2009 - March 2010
Description: Developed pipeline of projects with a total net value of $45 million USD
Decided to close down operations to focus on OsComp Systems

Employer: Minecon
Position: Co-Operations Director (Promoted from Sales Manager and Sales Representative)
Time period: December 2001 - November 2008
Description: Industrial and construction machinery distributor with ~120 employees.
• Managed P&L for ~40% of the company's operations (sales and service), $7 million in revenues, staff of 32
• Developed and executed the firm’s operations strategy, budget, and projects’ cost analyses from 2006-2008, consistently increasing market share in mature segments while increasing the net margin on sales
• Pitched, planned, launched, and led 3rd machinery division and led it to profitability, incremental sales of $1.2 million in 2 years, initially obtaining buy-in from the company’s senior executives
• Re-structured the sales and service divisions, merging the existing departments and creating new support platform for growth up to 150 sales and service employees
• Managed key customer relationships (~15% of revenues), including Cemex, Barrick Gold, and Falconbridge
• Supervised and coached the firm’s newly created logistics team
• Researched and implemented consultative sales methods in conjunction with Ingersoll-Rand

Employer: Minecon
Position: Internal Sales Support (Promoted from Inventory Adm. Assistant)
Time period: December 2000 - November 2002
Description: • Created project-quotation excel-based programs, effectively eliminating quote processing time for ~80% of quotes
• Re-engineered the layout and processes of the warehouse, reducing order turnaround time by 60% and increasing storage volume available by >250% on the same footprint

Employer: Atemesa
Position: CEO-President
Time period: December 1997 - November 2001
Description: Table tennis equipment retailer. Distributor for the Stiga table tennis brand locally.
• Founded and led the operations of the company.
• Attained ~45% market share of professional players market

EDUCATION

University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time period: 2008 - 2010
Degree: Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track, MBA

University: Rochester Institute of Technology
Time period: 2006 - 2008
Degree: International Business Administration, co-major Marketing, BSc

INFORMATION

Sports: Table tennis, golf, snowboarding
Hobbies: Chess, cooking
Clubs: Clubs: Management Consulting, MIT Energy, Sloan Energy, Sales, Transportation, and Latin Business
Memberships: ASME, NACE
Awards: Sloan International Sales Competition Finalist 2008 – MIT Sloan won 1st place among 11 top schools

Pedro's Startups (1)

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  • OsComp Systems

    OsComp is developing the next generation compressors for applications in refrigeration, natural gas, and industrial air. The hybrid rotor technology has a fraction of the cost and >30% higher efficiency than existing technologies.

Pedro's Contacts (7)

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  • Shantanu Agarwal

    Indian, 29, Chemical Engineer, valedictorian from Indian Institute of Technology, MBA from Harvard Business School. Experience with 3 startup founding teams. Extensive oil and gas technical, operational and sales experience.

  • Diana Huidobro

    Civil Industrial Engineer graduate from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, currently pursuing MBA degree at MIT Sloan School of Management.

  • Dan Steketee

    Entrepeneur with 13+ years of strategic and tactical consulting experience in the financial services, start-up and technology industries (BPM, Business Intelligence, KPI's,, Vendor Management, etc) .

  • Emmanuel Magani

    Candidate for MBA at MIT Sloan School of Management, Nigeria LNG Engineering course from Durham University School of Engineering (2004), Process Technologist at Nigeria LNG Limited (2004-2009), Analyst at KPMG Professional Services (2003-2004).