Antonio Luis Medina Comas (born c. 1968) is a licensed

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, a business executive, and the current president and founder of Convergent Strategies, an advisory firm that helps companies accelerate their growth. Medina has a bachelor's and a master's degree in industrial engineering from

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van ...

, and an

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in finance from the

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at the

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. He served as the executive director of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company, PRIDCO, between 2013 and 2016. Before joining PRIDCO, Medina spent 20 years at

Merck Sharp & Dohme Merck & Co., Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey, and is named for Merck Group, founded in Germany in 1668, of whom it was once the American arm. The company does business as Merck Sharp ...

(MSD) where he rose from being an

to become the

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(CFO) of Merck's operations in Brazil. He also served as the senior finance director for Merck's manufacturing division in Puerto Rico and as regional finance director for Merck's operations in

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and the

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. Medina was also instrumental in establishing the first MRO business unit of

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in the western hemisphere, the United States, and Puerto Rico in 2014 while heading PRIDCO.

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Chief financial officers Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni Living people 1960s births Officials of Puerto Rico Puerto Rican engineers Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni {{PuertoRico-politician-stub