Gerald Busca Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nottingham (Uk)

Quazar Consulting is an innovation management and technology development company. I am responsible for running the business on a day to day bases, seek clients and projects. Coordinate project delivery with clients and partners Source innovative solutions and market application Source sites and partners to deploy innovative solutions Assess technologies and commercial feasibility Support technology transfer and implementationSource funding opportunity and support bid writingDraw Business Term Sheet and AgreementsNegotiate with clients the best way forward to develop the product by assessing at what stage of development the innovation is at by listening to what direction the client wants to take on a new product or service as a Joint Venture or licencing agreement.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Business Development Role: Responsible for developing collaborative R&D projects with local SMEs, with specific academics and other business units and delivering events.• Developed £9.6m worth of collaborative projects, the largest project is a £4.9m ERANET project involving 5 European partners aiming at developing a bio refinery demonstration plant. • Delivered a number of events presenting the ETC and the University engagement programme to clients. EU Sustainable Energy Week that attracted 400 attendees over 3 days. My role was to drive the initiative, ensure all involved were coordinated and that the message was consistent• Supported Asian Business Centre ‘s executive team preparing the University capacity statement for a Work Bank Project on Municipal Solid Waste; Impact was to widen ABC executives’ approach and to look at the issue outside of engineering & looking at all aspect of the MSW issues.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Originally an informal group that received £5,000 seed funding aimed at bringing Engineering & Biosciences together. Lead and Developed workshops, Identify academics to joint the group, reported progress to the head of Global food security, Engage with global players academia & industry, Gain the support of prominent figures: Prof Dickson Despommier & Philips… Fostered collaborative research• Lead and organised the group first workshop • Supported the case for the group to be formalised as the Centre for Urban Agriculture. • Oversee the CUA web site to be compliant with the University standards and provided the text• 8 Academics Faculty of Engineering, Bioscience and school of economics are involved• Received a further £15,000 of funding and secured £1.4M TSB funding.• Initiated and lead the international conference on Vertical Farming and Urban Agriculture VFUA2014: over 200 attendees from across the world. I attracted £18,000 worth of sponsorship.http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/urbanagriculture/index.aspx VFUA2014 see http://vfua.org

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Support SMEs in The East Midlands Region with their environmental issues. Particularly with their resources, energy and carbon management; Auditing, Monitoring and Targeting, Knowledge and Technology Transfer.Support the development of innovative ideas and products in the green economy specifically Renewable Energy, Green building, Water and Waste management and technologies sectors.Link clients to world class academia and act as a technology/science translator.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Main achievements, I obtained 2 final products: a 40kJ/g oil and a 30 mg/l COD effluent. I developed a bioreactor adapted to the pre-treated waste. I proposed a complete process to the study’s sponsor (CARDEV Ltd).7 publications I proposed a new mechanism of membrane fouling by microemulsion.

Nottingham England

First 3 months as an intern I have been undertaken as a environmental consultant bringing to the team my scientific back ground.I contributed to different projects, essentially brought my expertise in chemistry. I visit clients, surveying their process. I provide opportunities for improvements and deliver solutions to improved client environmental performance.

Lyon Et Pont De Cheruy

I managed a team of 9 persons who collect municipal waste. Pont de Cheruy (France). I built a Visual Basic programme under Excel for round management. The purpose was to collect, to structure and to help for analysing more information about rounds and exploitation activities and costs.I installed the programme in 2 different exploitation. The biggest included 20 lorries and included selective collect.I rearranged the Pont de Cheruy site collect rounds because of an augmentation of quantity of waste.

Lyon (France)

Research:"Reduction of polluting capability of waste by water extraction and control of the chemical context"4 months study on residues and fly ash from municipal waste incineration, to experiment an alternative treatment method for this kind of waste by carbonate formation. The results of this study show good opportunities to valorise the soluble fraction (as a CaCl2 brine) and stabilisation of the toxic insoluble and precipitate fractions as metal carbonate sulphate….

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