Edite Cruz Email & Phone Number

Lisbon, Pt

Facilitating change in different settings from working with deep tech scientists at EIC to corporate clients, startups and individuals• Training & coaching teams to explore business opportunities• Customer discovery for new product design • Idea and business model validation• Workshop design and facilitation• 1-on-1 coaching

Lisbon, Portugal

• Facilitation of strategy, business model design and service design • Review and redesign of processes and practices• Development and management of partnerships• Managed a team of 5 health guides for cancer patients

Lisbon, Portugal

• Startup mentor responsible for advising and guiding incubated startups • Redesigned the incubation programme including the selection process• Designed and implemented several activities to support incubated startups and connect the organization with the european startup ecosystem

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Responsible for managing Bright Pixels’ Labs• Responsible for management and overview of several projects, clients and project teams • Managed the Labs team, keeping track of recruitment, internal communication and alignment, training, project margins and all other topics that concern the day to day management of the team• Business development activities such as elaborating proposals, negotiations, as well as planning and executing ideation workshops with clients for generation of innovative projects

Innovation Expert for the Innovation Radar of the European Commission• Responsible for assessing innovation in funded projects• Providing guidance on identifying and exploiting innovation opportunities

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Responsible for the launch and management of several projects and partnerships• Management of H2020 projects focused on boosting the European Startup Ecosystem• Launch of the European Accelerator Network• Design and hosting of European Accelerator Summit ‘15• Responsible for the development of the Portuguese Startup Manifesto & Startup Guide Lisbon• Managing partnerships with Allied for Startups and European Startup Network• Represented Beta-i at several events, including: Startup Olé, South Summit, Startup Week (NL), Foo Cafe, Zoom Smart Cities, Lisbon Investment Summit and The Next Web• Customer development for the corporate innovation division• Coaching startups during acceleration programme• Design of innovation solutions for major portuguese corporates

Lisbon Area, Portugal

• Responsible for creating 65+ hours of conference programme with 150+ speakers• Managed the development of the website for this edition of the event• Supported sales pitches and development of partnerships

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Several roles within the System Integration & Technology Consulting Services.• Business Development (internal role). Collaboration in several RFPs. Design and development of offerings for mobile payments solutions and automated system testing solutions.• Technology Consultant in the Target Operating Model Review for the Global Transaction Services division of a Large Financial Institution.• Delivery lead in integration project at Large Financial Institution. Responsible for migration and integration of data, systems and processes regarding client data within the Global Client Services division (in the context of an acquisition by another Large Financial Institution).• Strategy Business Analyst at Large Financial Institution. Responsible for defining a 3 year roadmap for technological and business development of a CRM application and respective reporting tool.• Lead business analyst at a Large Financial Institution. Responsible for the upgrade of a CRM application (Siebel) used by 1500 users across continents and interfacing with 11 other applications.• Delivery lead for the upgrade of a document digitalization software (Kofax) used by 60 users across continents.• Lead Business Analyst at Large Financial Institute. Responsible for the setup of detailed project scope and project plan for the upgrade of an MI tool (Business Objects) used cross-border by around 500 users.• Analyst at Large Medical Equipment Manufacturer. Several roles within a three year long program which redesigned the Client's supply chain. Key contributions: assistant in release management, development of training material, data migration coordinator, UAT script validation coordinator.• Communications coordinator (internal role). Responsible for redesign and implementation of internal communication strategy for the SAP-GP2W initiative. Editor of internal SAPLeadership Newsletter.• Event Planning (internal role). Responsible for organizing Accenture’s participation in the VNSG ’08.

Research on interdependencies between critical infrastructuresResearch project done in collaboration with TNO (Dutch Agency for Applied Scientific Research)

Netherlands

Responsible for providing market intelligence, market sizing, and competitive analysis for security services in the field of newly legislated e-passports

Master, Management Of Technology

Activities and Societies: Elected to participate in the Research Profile Study Program; Research assistant in a collaborative project.

Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Active member of BEST - Board of European Students of Technology, responsible for the 2004 edition of BEST.