Felipe is an MBA 2009 at the MIT Sloan School of Management and he is going to focus his studies on general management and sales in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech Industry.
Before Sloan, Felipe was a business development project manager in the strategic operations department at Novo Nordisk (NN) Latin America Regional Office, a leading diabetes pharmaceutical company. For two years he has developed strategic projects throughout the region, travelling constantly to give support to the local general managers and distributors of NN’s operations. Each country and business unit required different kind of support, in other words, his projects ranged from starting up a company in Colombia to assuring proper sales force expansion in Mexico.

I have a BE in Robotics Engineering from the University of São Paulo and extensive experience as a technology consultant in Laboratory Management for clients in Brazil and the US. By laboratory management I mean that I studied the lab processes of the clients, designed a model of the physical process and put it in an information system, automated and optimized the process, put the machines/robots to talk to the computers and created management tools.

After that I worked for another couple of years at a startup, one of my previous clients, creating and managing my own projects. They offer genotyping (genetic analysis) over the internet (www.transnetyx.com).

At Sloan I’m interested in high-tech, information /communication, sales, making new friends … anything different and cool!

Nishi is interested in the energy sector, carbon offset market and sustainability. Some of her noteworthy initiatives include Sales Competition 2007, India Trek 2008 and South Asian Business Cultural Function 2008 etc. She is a trained dancer and her interests include yoga and outdoor activities.

During this year, Steven is launching a company that produces 3D photo-quality signage to the retail and advertising industries at a significantly lower cost and faster turnaround time. Before Sloan, Steven was an Assistant Vice President in Citigroup's Corporate and Investment Bank. At Citigroup, Steven successfully co-launched the Hedge Fund Consulting practice providing business consulting to large and fast-growing hedge funds; the consulting practice won a "Best in Class" award within its first year of operations. Previously, Steven worked in Hollywood for the Producer of the Harry Potter films and for a major hollywood agent. Steven graduated in 2003 from Princeton University with a Bachelor's in Political Science."

Daniel is an MBA student in the Class of 2009 at the MIT Sloan School of Management. During his time at Sloan he has been focusing on strategic management and applying his bachelor’s degree in organizational psychology to more effectively understand and conduct business. He has also been helping to expand the Global Sales Development Series, which offers executive sales training to members of the MIT Sloan Sales Club. He is now one of the two Executive Directors of Training and Development for the club and is continually looking for new opportunities to continue expanding the sales training that is available to MBA students.

Before Sloan, Daniel was co-managing a 3,000-acre production agriculture business in Western North Dakota. His family business produced and marketed a variety of small-grains sold in national and international markets and he was responsible for managing the operations and ensuring production deadlines were met.