MIT Sales Conference Leads
- Felipe Castro, Sloan Sales Club President
- Heather Ryan, Sloan Sales Club President Elect
- Managing Director – Dev SenGupta
- Panels – Amanda Symonds
- Sponsorship – Alex Munk, Mathieu Apotheker
- Marketing – Ariel Santos, Tarun Rathnam
Panel Managers
Panel Advisors
- Nishi Das
- Rick Moore
- Damian Wisniewski
- Ananda Ghosh
Sponsorship Managers
Marketing Manager
- William Hau Blinn
For questions regarding the MIT Sloan Sales Conference please contact: organizers@sloansalesconference.com
About the MIT Sloan Sales Club
The MIT Sloan Sales Club was founded in 2006 to provide members with heightened business acumen, savvy sales insights, and advanced social skills. The Club recognizes that active listening, strategic selling, and relationship building are keys to success in every career and organization. The Sales Club helps members to learn these skills by bringing to campus numerous guest speakers discussing not what, but how they did it, through application-based workshops, an annual conference, and numerous recruitment opportunities in one of the world’s most lucrative careers
Felipe Castro, President, MIT Sloan Sales Club
MIT Sloan Class of 2009
Felipe is a second year MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management and he is focusing his studies on general management, entrepreneurship and sales.
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. He is fluent in Portuguese & Spanish and passionate about training Kung-Fu.
Dev SenGupta, Managing Director, MIT Sloan Sales Conference
MIT Sloan Class of 2009
Dev SenGupta is a second year MIT Sloan student interested in technology entrepreneurship and sales. He is the Managing Director of the Sloan Sales Conference and co-president of the MIT’s Mobile Club (MoMIT) . This past summer Dev worked in Google’s Online Sales and Operations group. Prior to MIT Sloan, Dev spent four years at IBM, working first as a strategy consultant within IBM’s Global Services division and then working in IBM’s Corporate Strategy group in Armonk, NY. Dev has as an AB in Economics from Harvard University.
Heather Ryan, President Elect MIT Sloan Sales Club and Director of Operations
MIT Sloan Class of 2010
Heather Ryan is a first year MIT Sloan student and the MIT Sloan Sales Club President Elect for 2009-2010. While at Sloan she plans to focus on strategic and effective management of corporations, with specific interest in optimizing sales teams. Heather comes to Sloan with a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Master’s in Engineering from the University of Colorado. Prior to Sloan, Heather’s career at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies took her from R&D Engineer, to marketing, sales consulting, and finally to Sales. When she left Agilent, she was a Global Sales Account Manager in the Semiconductor Test Division, selling to large, global flash memory manufacturers.
Mathieu Apotheker, Director of Sponsorships, Vice President of Finance and General Management, MIT Sloan Sales Club
MIT Sloan Class of 2010
Mathieu is a first year student at MIT Sloan. He is an engineer from Cambridge University UK, and worked in consulting in Western Europe and North Africa for five years before coming to Sloan.
Within the sales club, he helped organize the sales competition in Fall 08 and is part of the sponsorship team. Beyond the sales club, his interests at Sloan include welcoming prospective and admitted students, entrepreneurship, technology and marketing.
Outside of school, Mathieu enjoys going to the gym, being part of the Bostonian nightlife, reading the economist and books on evolution.
Amanda Symonds, Director of Panels
MIT Sloan Class of 2010
Amanda is a member of MIT Sloan’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation Track and a Vice President of the Sales Club. Previously, Amanda was an Investment Banker at Grant Thornton (GT) where she advised founders and CEO’s on growth, acquisition and exit strategies across numerous industries. Amanda holds a BSc with Honors in Mathematics from the University of Leeds, England, and is an Associate of Chartered Accountants (ACA) and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). Amanda believes that good sales skills are essential to success in any chosen career.
Melinda Hwang, Sponsorships Manager
MIT Sloan Class of 2010
Melinda is a first year MIT Sloan student. Prior to coming to Sloan, Melinda worked at McCann Worldgroup in San Francisco on the Microsoft and HP accounts, where her focus was on building digital marketing campaigns.
Melinda was inspired to join the MIT Sloan Sales Club leadership team after placing third at the International Sales Competiton last fall. Her goal is to increase the awareness of sales as a critical skill in any industry among MBA students. Melinda is also co-president of MIT’s Marketing Club.
Melinda holds a B.A. in International Relations from Wellesley College.
MIT Sloan Class of 2010
Fred worked as Sales and Strategy Associate at Cequip Ltd., a Group of automotive dealerships in Brazil, which he joined in 2003 as parts and services manager. Prior to his automotive endeavor, Fred was project manager of a Media Channel Conglomerate, heading its internet division. Fred holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Universidade Federal do Ceara. He is a member of MIT Sloan’s Track of Finance and is very interested in business development, strategy, marketing and sales.
MIT Sloan Class of 2010
Bryan currently works for Web 2.0 start-up SynthaSite, which he joined as part of the Endeavor Global eMBA program in 2008. Previously, Bryan graduated from GE Capital’s Financial Management Program and later worked in GE’s Global Sponsor Finance group, which provides leveraged buyout and acquisition financing for private equity clients. Bryan holds a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Argentina in 2006. He is a member of MIT Sloan’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation track and plans to continue working with early stage technology companies upon leaving MIT.
MIT Sloan Class of 2010
Michael Norman is an experienced social entrepreneur whose career has focused on finding profitable ways for businesses to invest in low-income communities. His work as a corporate social responsibility consultant in Costa Rica founded the first public-private CSR consortium in Latin America. Prior to attending MIT, Michael launched a youth development program serving residents of Boston public housing developments. Michael is pursuing a Sloan MBA and a Master of City Planning at MIT. He hopes to leverage these skills to help businesses understand how to succeed in an economic context where low-income communities are potential customers, and social and environmental impact is a vital business concern.
Guilherme Reichmann, Panel Manager
MIT Sloan Class of 2010
Guilherme is Brazilian and has worked in different industries. Before coming to business school he was working at VIVO, the largest Mobile Service operator in Brazil, in Sales and Marketing for corporate business. He has also worked in the logistic front at the Business Center for Latin America at Exxonmobil, where he was the delivery planner for some countries in Central America and Caribbean. He has also experience in the railroad and real estate industries. Guilherme holds a B.S in Civil Engineering from Universidade Federal do Parana in Brazil, where he received a scholarship to work in a Center of research and development at the University. He will be doing his summer internship at Bain & Company in Sao Paulo.
Damian Wisniewski, Panel Advisor
MIT Sloan Class of 2009
Damian Wisniewski is a second-year MBA student at MIT Sloan interested in technology and sales. He is Co-Owner of SloanGear, Sloan’s student-run apparel company. Damian interned this summer in Sales Strategy at Salesforce.com in San Francisco. Prior to MIT Sloan, he spent three and a half years at Oracle (by way of its acquisition of Profitlogic) in Cambridge where he was a Support Analyst and then Project Manager in the retail practice. He is currently looking for a Technology Sales role in the Bay Area. Damian has an AB in Mathematics from Harvard University.
MIT Sloan Class of 2009
Ananda Ghosh is a second year MBA at MIT Sloan. Prior to MIT, he spent three years at Deloitte Consulting in the Technology Integration practice in San Francisco. At Deloitte he worked on a variety of projects involving large scale custom software implementations. Prior to Deloitte, Ananda worked as part of the founding team for a small software startup in the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) space. Ananda has a BS degree in business administration from the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley.
Dhruv Mehrotra, Sponsorships Manager
MIT Sloan Class of 2010
Dhruv is a first year MIT Sloan student. Prior to coming to MIT Sloan, Dhruv worked for 4.5 years as an Applications Consultant at Magma Design Automation in Austin, TX holding responsibilities in technical consulting, tech marketing and program management. He worked with several big and small accounts including helping close the deal that impacted the development of the chip powering many of today’s Blackberrys. Additionally, Dhruv has worked for over 3 years with various startups in engineering and business roles.
Dhruv joined the MIT Sloan Sales Club leadership team to bring awareness of sales as a critical skill in any industry. He also helped organize the 2008 Fall Sales Competition. Outside of school, Dhruv enjoyes hiking, experimental cooking and road trips.
Dhruv holds a BS & MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
