Mr. Santamaria is a director for BaseFirma’s International Transfer Pricing Group in Miami, Florida. Since 2002, Mr. Santamaria has been developing his practice in technical transfer pricing analysis, including the development of operational transfer pricing models. Before joining BaseFirma’s Miami team, Mr. Santamaria spent one year at BaseFirma’s office in Madrid and worked for seven years as a senior manager for BaseFirma’s Venezuelan office. With extensive knowledge regarding North American and European markets and tax legislation, Mr. Santamaria currently manages and coordinates global documentation projects for large and medium sized companies located in Europe, the US, the Asia-Pacific region, Canada, and various Latin American countries.  Mr. Santamaria studied industrial engineering at the Politécnico di Milano University in Italy and graduated with a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas. He also obtained an advanced diploma in Transfer Pricing at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law.  He is fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian.