Andrea Soto Email & Phone Number

Baden, Switzerland, CH

Business Development for Battery Energy Storage Solutions and Renewables in North America, at Linxon US.

• Led cross functional teams, identifying, assigning and tracking deliverables in complex technology collaboration projects
• Negotiated cooperation and commercial terms with CEO at partner organization, executing calculations and scenario analysis resulting in collaboration agreement saving several millions of dollars in licensing fees for.
• Directed all aspects of partnership engagement, establishing connection with multiple potential partners per year and proposing collaboration models
• Formulated and led high visibility strategy projects, identifying key growth opportunities and market challenges and developing response plan for the business unit, informing business development activities and.
• Transformed tech content into impactful material for non-tech audience, for major conference keynote presentation
• Led collaborations with 6+ external venture capital companies (Samsung funds of funds) and Samsung CVC teams across the world in identifying market forces and emerging technologies, increasing team’s impact and market.

• Top contributor across multiple strategy engagements. Workstreams included:
• Creation and proposal of technology pathfinding framework, resulting in new operating model and structure for a Samsung business unit
• Generation of market analysis to create strategy for new business unit, resulting in a shift in product family focus as well as organizational changes required for strategy implementation
• Construction of technology assessment framework and generation of strategy recommendations for technology acquisition for Samsung Semiconductors; resulted in allocation of technology acquisition resourcesAbout.

Berkeley, CA, US

• Instructor for undergraduate introductory business class, for two consecutive semesters during MBA

San Francisco, CA, US

• Creator of onboarding and support strategy for Twitter Syndication partnerships

• Consultant in a six-month long engagement identifying the next innovation opportunities and formulating the strategies for supporting the Finnish innovation environment. Final findings made to the organization’s.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Coordinated IBM servers product features plan across functional teams

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Led a group of 4-6 test engineers to execute test strategy on IBM’s high end servers
• Created test strategies to enhance software updates mechanisms resulting in decrease in system downtime and customer complaints

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Creator of test strategies for IBM High Volume and High End Servers.
• Led a team of validation engineers.
• Recipient of IBM-wide recognition for leadership and engineering achievement.

Masters In Business Administration (Mba), Strategy

Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineer