Entrepreneurs know about INTEC services offer
Santo Domingo.- More than ten presidents and executives of leading companies in the country have visited the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), in a series of meetings held since May to analyze the opportunities for links between the productive sector and universities.
The representatives of Banco del Progreso, Implementos y Maquinarias (IMCA), Wind Telecom, Viva, Industrias Nigua, Banco Popular, the Dominican Association of Exporters (ADOEXPO), the Association of Dominican Industries (AIRD), the Dominican Association of Free Trade Zones (ADOZONA), the Association of Exporting Industries (AIEX), Zona Franca Las Américas and Hanes Caribe, have exchanged information on the importance and opportunities of providing INTEC services with solutions for the industry.
"The development depends on the existence of a greater capacity for collaboration between the productive sector and the academy," said Rolando M. Guzmán, president of INTEC, who since the first meeting has been accompanied by the Vice-Rector of Research and Liaison Julio Sánchez, Dean of Businesses, Diómedes Christopher and the Director of Provision of Services, Ailín Lockward.
INTEC has presented the opportunities to provide cost-efficient solutions and services to the productive sector. The attendees have learned about the academic structure and strategy of INTEC, which celebrates its 40 anniversary this year, as well as the service options offered by the laboratories, centers, departmental units and teaching groups of the institution.
Pedro Esteva, president of IMCA, explained the support that his company has given to secondary and higher education in projects such as the Loyola Polytechnic Institute; Claudia Pellerano, representing the Las Americas Free Zone, explained the need for constant training for personnel in her area and expressed her enthusiasm for the wide range of services, in terms of manufacturing and repairing molds and pieces that the INTEC offer for these companies.
At the meeting they attended:
1. Mark Silverman, Executive President of Banco Del Progreso
2. Yandra Portela, Administrative Vice President of Industrias Nigua
3. Pedro Esteva, President of Implementos y Maquinarias, IMCA
4. Nicolás Vargas, Vice President of Special Projects and Customer Service of Banco Popular
5. Tomás Pérez Ducy, president of Viva
6. Damián Báez, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Wind Telecom
7. Aquiles Bermúdez, from ADOZONA
8. José Torres, vice president of ADOZONA
9. Luis Manuel Pellerano, President of the Las Americas Free Zone
10. Claudia Pellerano, Marketing Manager of Zona Franca Las Américas
11. Kai Schoenhals, from ADOEXPO
12. Salvador Demagistre, Association of Industrial Exporters (AIEX)
13. Javier Fernández, from AIRD
14. Astrid Encarnación, from Hanes Caribe