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

industrial engineer Industrial engineering (IE) is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, an ...

, 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 university, private research university in Troy, New York, United States. It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere. It was establishe ...

, and an

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in finance from the

Wharton School The Wharton School ( ) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton ...

at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

. 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. The company does business as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical com ...

(MSD) where he rose from being an

to become the

chief financial officer A chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization who is assigned the primary responsibility for making decisions for the company for projects and its finances; i.a.: financial planning, management of financial risks, ...

(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

Lufthansa Deutsche Lufthansa AG (), trading as the Lufthansa Group, is a German aviation group. Its major and founding subsidiary airline Lufthansa German Airlines, branded as Lufthansa, is the flag carrier of Germany. It ranks List of largest airlin ...

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

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Convergent Strategies
Chief financial officers Wharton School alumni Living people 1960s births Officials of Puerto Rico 21st-century Puerto Rican engineers Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{PuertoRico-politician-stub