Luís Prata

Luís Prata is a senior Marketing and Sales executive with extensive experience in the Telecom and Consumer Goods industry. As Marketing Director at Oni Telecom he led the Innovation and Communication having contributed to a business turn-around in the Residential broadband market. Previously, he worked 12 years for Unilever where he had Marketing and Sales roles at a local and regional level in Europe.
Luís Prata has a Business degree from Universidade Catolica in Portugal and he is currently a Sloan Fellow student at the M.I.T. expecting to earn his M.B.A. in June 08.

Rodrigo Mazzilli

Mr. Mazzilli has over 7 years of experience in the consulting and software business, having worked at Hewlett-Packard Co. in numerous countries. He holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil and has recently been an MIT fellow with the Advanced Study Program, focusing on the business of innovation, leadership and general management.
Rodrigo has worked as a product manager for HP BRAIN at HP Consulting & Integration in Germany and keeps close contact with HP Labs, bridging innovation from HP Labs to its services division.

Damien Acheson

Damien Acheson’s interests cover a broad range of disciplines, from interactive marketing and communications, to entrepreneurship and international development. Prior to business school, he directed international public relations campaigns promoting trade and investment opportunities in emerging markets. Damien is a former Sales and Marketing Director of an online software distribution company in London. He is also the author of articles on international development, information technology and ecommerce.
Damien holds a Masters in Economics and Finance from the Paris School of Political Sciences and is currently pursuing an MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management.