A Senior Executive with an exceptional technical and business background within the water and environmental sectors, servicing Government as well as industry worlds such as Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Power and Mines.
He has held Operational as well as Business Development and Marketing roles throughout his career, with full P&L responsibility in all positions. His experience and interest ranges from Product Sales, Operations Management, Engineering Project Execution and Management, Business Development and Marketing.
A rare combination of a mentor and an educator with management and entrepreneurial skills, acted as a Professor at Univ.of Sao Paulo, Univ.of Costa Rica and Univ.of Waterloo, and taught several professional short courses worldwide. As an entrepeneur, he has started and managed for 15 years his own company headquartered in Waterloo, Canada, with subsidiaries in the US, Brazil, and Chile. Upon selling the company to Schlumberger, he initiated their Water Services Division in Latin America, setting operations in Mexico, Chile, Peru, and Brazil. Subsequently, he was based in the Middle East, as Global Marketing and Business Development Director at Schlumberger Water Services. He was a Managig Director for DHI, and subsequently started a company, Water Services and Technologies, where he is current a Principal Hydrogeologist and Director. He is also a Professor at Federal University of Santa Catarina,, teaching groundwater and surface water undergrad and graduate courses.

Specialties: Recognized expert in groundwater simulation, contamination by Non-aqueous phase liquids, developer of many groundwater software packages used worldwide, including Visual MODFLOW, Flowpath, Airflow/SVE, Flonet, and others. Author of several papers, 2 book chapters and one book. Recipient of the National Groundwater Association's John Helms Award in 2000, an yearly prize given in recognition to the professional who most contributed to the advancement of groundwater science.

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  Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in Water Services and Technology

  Integrated Solutions for WATER & ENVIRONMENT