Maria Nikolou, Phd, Mba Email & Phone Number

Geneva, Ge, Ch

Switzerland

As the Head of Programs, I am responsible for fostering strategic partnerships with universities to attract talented students. I represent the company at startup and investor events, building and maintaining strong relationships within the industry. I also focus on promoting the company, enhancing its profile, and driving initiatives to integrate new talent and innovative ideas into our projects.

Switzerland

Leading the business teams that work on the go-to-market strategy, network design, and financial planning. Supporting fundraising and recruiting activities.

Monthey, Valais, Switzerland

Advising on business development and go-to-market strategy.

Berlin, Germany

I work with Helmholtz researchers to: 1. promote an entrepreneurial mindset among them 2. provide strategic guidance and mentoring on how to commercialize their ideas (GTM), and 3. create impact through their scientific research.

England, United Kingdom

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Mentored founders and start-up teams; from the idea stage to business development.I identified potential partners and fostered new collaborations. I led and managed innovative initiatives for internal and external partners. I worked closely with faculty to design and deliver customized programs and workshops; responsible from inception to final delivery.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a global seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies. I launched the program in Oxford with a small team, expanded the team, build the ecosystem partners and mentor group.Create a pipeline of deep science ventures for the CDL-Oxford AI program.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Mentored founders and start-up teams; from the idea stage to business development.• MBA Tutor for the Entrepreneurship Project.• MBA Fintech elective; designed, developed, and launched the new MBA curriculum course in financial innovation for the MBA programme at Saïd Business School.• I led diverse teams to create innovative outcomes.• Develops customised programmes in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Deliver online lectures and webinars, as well as face to face workshops regarding growth opportunities for SMEs.Details on the programme can be found here: http://www.goldmansachs.com/citizenship/10000-small-businesses/UK/#

• Design the Oxford Foundry accelerator programme; L.V.E.8. • Enhance the relationship of the Oxford Foundry with the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Oxford, United Kingdom

The Oxford Seed Fund (OSF) is a sector-agnostic fund that invests up to £50,000 in early-stage ventures and provides them with the network and support they need to scale. The OSF portfolio has 24 investments, including: - Onfido; raised a total of $180m from SBI, Salesforce, Microsoft, and others, and - Go1; raised a total of $384m from Microsoft venture fund (M12), Salesforce ventures, Y Combinator, among others.It has been set up as a student-led fund with a dual educational purpose:1) to help Oxford MBA students gain investment experience by sourcing and evaluating new venture ideas, and2) to fund ideas from Oxford University students and alumni and provide them with support to grow their ventures.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Designed, developed and delivered the new undergraduate curriculum course in business innovation and commercialization of their 3rd year projects.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Mentors start-ups; from idea stage to business development.• Designed and developed the content and delivery of programmes and events of the Entrepreneurship Centre; notably programmes in my portfolio have included SVCO (Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford), Goldman Sachs 10,000 small businesses, Building a Business, VIEW (Venture Idea Exploration Workshop). • Successfully bringing scientists closer to the market by actively working on building interdisciplinary teams with a broad set of skills and expertise to tackle current problems.• Publication in the "eLearning Papers" journal: • https://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/article/Innovation-entrepreneurship-and-education-From-field-41-2?paper=169497

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Supports start-up with ideation, team formation and articulating their vision.• Leads the Oxford Venture Club, an exclusive club for alumni entrepreneurs and investors from Oxford University; fostering an alumni community through training and networking events.• Big Change: sustainable healthcare for the 21st century; co-organising a Medical Innovation Summit; a global conference on affordable medical innovation technologies and strategies in collaboration with The George Institute for Global Health. • Planning and delivering ‘Building a Business’ course; a 10 weeks evening lecture series on basic business skills. It covers good business practices with a focus on science entrepreneurship. • Co-manages the 'Strategy and Innovation Plus' course which introduces science graduate students to business concepts and helps them develop their ideas into business opportunities.

London, England, United Kingdom

The Royal Academy of Engineering is a delivery partner of the UK Government’s Newton Fund which aims to develop international science and innovation partnerships that promote the economic development and welfare of emerging powers. The Leaders in Innovation Fellowship (LIF) program brings cohorts of 10-15 innovators from selected partner countries to the UK for a residential course of training and mentoring in entrepreneurship and commercialization. Fellows are jointly selected by the Academy and the in-country partner organization on the basis of the excellence of their research, the potential of their innovation, the social and economic benefits of their innovation, and their potential as entrepreneurs.

London, United Kingdom

Advised on strategy, funding, and growth.

London, United Kingdom

Working on the strategy and looking for investors to accelerate the growth of the company.

Barcelona Area, Spain

Work focused on finding ways to achieve reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to the atmosphere through CO2 transformation into marketable products. Developed photocatalysts using supercritical fluids e.g. CO2, EtOH, and characterizing them by Raman spectroscopy, BET (surface analysis), DLS (particle size measurements).Coordinated EU proposal submission.

United States

Performed research for solving fundamental problems of new materials designed for applications in the field of flexible organic electronics e.g. displays. (PhD-CDP program).

Ithaca, New York

The research focused on the field of Nanobiotechnology; biosensor development. Supervised the work of two undergraduate students.

Ithaca, New York

Cornell Business & Technology Park. Work focused on the evaluation of applications for Patents, and on Intellectual Property processes.

Winning Sustainability Strategies

IMD’s Winning Sustainability Strategies program is designed to help the integration of sustainability into your company's strategy, so you.

Venture Fellow Scholar, Newton Venture Program, Venture Capital Investing

I was a Venture Fellow Scholar (Cohort 2) in the Newton Venture Program, a 4-month highly competitive training program created as a joint.

Oxford Executive Leadership

The Oxford Executive Leadership Programme helps leaders to answer the complex question of 'What does effective leadership look like.

Oxford Executive Artificial Intelligence

Activities and Societies: The Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme is designed for business leaders and technical professionals.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Activities and Societies: President of Women in Business - Recipient of Dean's scholarship. - Leadership Training from the Portsmouth.

Certificate, Postdoctoral Leadership Program

PostDoctoral Leadership Program by Chet Warzynsky & Lynda Gasser; Organizational Development Services.

Phd, Experimental Solid State Physics

Research assistant: Work focused on the characterization of carbon nanotubes and conducting polymers, and the design and building.

Bs, Physics; Microelectronics.

Activities and Societies: Member of the student union (AOEF).

Material Research And Optical Characterization Under The Auspices Of Erasmus-Socrates Program, Applied Materials Science.