General Manager with 20 years of professional experience serving the Global Oil & Gas industry. With background as Industrial Engineer (Universidad Austral) he complemented his formal education with an MBA (Harvard Business School). Based in Houston for 9 years, he worked with McKinsey & Co., Schlumberger and Pacific Drilling. Back in Argentina supported Servicios Petroleros as COO and currently leads AESA Servicios as General Manager. * * * Horacio received his Industrial Engineering degree from the Universidad Austral, Argentina where he graduated in 1999 with honors (Valedictorian). He complemented this education with an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2006 where he focused his elective courses in General Management and Leadership.His industry spike is upstream Oil & Gas where he spent over 6 years in the Oil & Gas management consulting practices of Schlumberger and McKinsey & Co. Additionally, he dedicated 3 years to offshore drilling with Pacific Drilling as head of their Global Supply Chain department supporting the company growth from startup to IPO. During his career, Horacio was also exposed to multiple industries: Travel & Logistics, Private Equity, Retail, Agribusiness, and Telecommunications.His General Manager experience is the result of direct responsibilities as GM for AESA Servicios, COO with Servicios Petroleros Argentina, Country Manager in Brazil for Pacific Drilling, and advisory roles to business heads (and CEOs) as a Management Consultant.Functionally, Horacio has a deep understanding of Operations, Supply Chain (logistics, freight forwarding, warehousing), Commercial (Procurement, Contracts), and Strategy (Growth, M&A).Geographically, Horacio has worked in the USA, Brazil, Middle East, Mexico, Argentina, Italy, Nigeria, Singapore, Korea. Additionally, being responsible for a global Supply Chain, he has developed commercial and operational agreements with vendors and agents all over the world.