Joseph SANTILLI is an accomplished Senior International Sales Executive, President and Strategic Business Advisor with 30 years of experience in driving both incubation and established product developments into international environments ????????
A veteran “American in Paris”, Joseph founded American Technology International (ATi) in 1989, a Paris based company that works to help North American companies launch and maintain a strong international presence for their technical products and services.
Joseph is particularly skilled in defining regional opportunities, C-suite execution strategies and tactical GTM roadmaps that create sources of new revenue and long-term valued assets for his partnered companies.
Joseph is recognized as a culturally savvy business developer who excels in taking disruptive products into established markets. He marries tactical strategies to innovative technologies, and across a range of varied products, has repeatedly changed the landscape of the marketplace.
From AI empowered underwater drone technologies (AUVs) providing the world’s highest-fidelity licensable seafloor datasets that accelerates critical ocean infrastructure projects, to revolutionary engineered textiles that created new fashion segments for the runways of Paris, Joseph continues to influence the direction of markets as they evolve regardless of the industry sector.
Passionate in the development of the Global Market, ardent to the development of oceanic research and the advancement of Renewable Energies, Joseph is committed to providing North American technology companies with immediate, structured, and coordinated access to international markets.
Prior to starting his company, Joseph held positions
within the Energy Industries as a Wire-Line Oil Field
Engineer for Schlumberger SA in Sub-Sahara Africa and
as Group Leader and Manager within the Corporate HQ
Engineering Group at Marathon Oil Corporation in
Findlay, Ohio USA. He also held positions in Engineering
at Ford Motor Corporation in Dearborn, Michigan, USA
and at ESBE AB in Reftele, Sweden.
Joseph was educated at the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor graduating Cum Laude with a Master of
Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a
Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautics. In addition,
he was engaged by the University to conduct research
at the Gas Dynamics Imaging Subsonic Wind Tunnel
Facility as well as at the NC NASA Space Laboratories.
Joseph has lived and worked in France, Nigeria, Sweden,
Angola, Kazakhstan and the USA. He is now based in
Paris, France with his wife and daughter.