Santiago is 38 years old and has been a serial entrepreneur since he can remember.

At age 24, he was President of “Fundación Iniciativa”, a Non-profit Organization that promoted democratic leadership among the young. More than 20,000 young students participated in projects created by the foundation, which grew to have over 400 volunteers.

After working at Procter and Gamble for a couple of years he co-founded Officenet, a company that revolutionized the distribution of office supplies inSouth America. Funded initially by local angel investors, Officenet raised capital from several large private equity investors including among others Goldman Sachs, GE Capital, George Soros, JP Morgan Chase, Warburg Pincus, KKR, THLee, Fleet-Boston Bank, GP Investimentos and Banco Santander Central Hispano.

Santiago led Officenet from a small startup in Buenos Aires to a company operating in Argentina and Brazil with over 100M USD in annual sales and almost 1,000 employees. Two cases called “Officenet: how to make entrepreneurship work in Argentina” and “After the merge” were written by Harvard Business School and taught at different universities.

OFFICENET is today part of Staples, the World’s largest office products company, with presence in more than 20 countries. Furthermore, the service levels that OFFICENET has achieved allowed it to be a benchmark for the industry worldwide.

Santiago was also founder of Wanako Games, today part of Vivendi Group and Senstand, a company which is now on its early stages. He is also member of the Board of Directors of “Otro Mundo”, an Argentine company engaged in the production of high quality beer, and of “Latin 3”, a company dedicated to exponential marketing.

Vehement believer that giving back to society is a must, Santiago always tries to inspire and help other young entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs-to-be through conferences and meetings. During the past few years he was a speaker at the MIT Sloan School of Management, at HBS, and many other universities in the US and Latin America.

He was also panelist at different Endeavor conferences and advisor at the Karel Steuer Entrepreneurship Chair and member of the Advisory Council of the Post Graduate Department at the Universidad de San Andrés in order to promote high levels on the educational field.

He was also member of the judging panel of several business plan competitions, including “NAVES”, organized by IAE Entrepreneurship Centre, and a member of the judging panel at the INICIA award. He is a committed mentor for many of those who want to make of entrepreneurship a way of life.

Apart from his business activities, Santiago is involved in different Non-profit Organizations, being Board Member of Endeavor Argentina. He is a former President and Board Member of CIPPEC, a public policy organization that works to help construct an Argentinean State that acts in a fair, democratic, efficient manner, both at a city, province and national level.

His passion for social entrepreneurship led him to collaborate with Ashoka, starting a fruitful two way street of learning with the social entrepreneurs to develop and spread their innovations so as to demonstrate to all citizens that they have the potential to be powerful changemakers.

Santiago collaborates as well with the National Investment Agency (prosperar) by being a member of the Private Sector Advisory Council.

He has a summa cum laude BS in Economics from Universidad de San Andrés, where he won the San Andrés Award 1993 as the top ranked student from all careers and faculties in college (Baccalaureate).