Salvador is an electrical engineer from Purdue University that began his professional career with Texas Instruments Inc. His first position was as a process engineer, where he had the opportunity  to work for a world class company that was mentioned as “excellent” in the book In Search of Excellence (1982) by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman.  This experience motivated him to pursue an MBA at INCAE Business School. At INCAE, Salvador was an assistant to Noel Ramírez, Dean of Economics,  and as his assistant, Salvador analyzed the performance of the economies of most of the Central American countries. His understanding of the centralamerican economies  has always been one his passions.

After graduation,  he worked for Repuestos Didea S.A., a division of the Grupo Poma, where he acquired extensive knowledge of the automotive aftermarket spare parts. He returned to Costa Rica to manage one of the first electronics installed companies here: Semicon Tec – established in 1975 – now called WAI Semicon, where he installed cell manufacturing and JIT concepts, achieveing impressive results for the company.

He filled several management positionos at different international companies, where he implements new and modern manufacturing concepts, continuous improvement and quality improvement, ISO 9000, CGMP, energy savings projects and high performance teamwork. He has always pursued continuous improvement and improved performance from companies and personnel.

Salvador has participated in internatinal business negotiations with different managers of diverse cultures and countries from different parts of the planet, as he has served different customers from America, Europe, Latin American and Asia.

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