In charge of the Business Development and Marketing areas. Taking advantage of an experience of more than 15 years as senior innovation consultant and funding advisor - National and European framework programmes for R&D and innovation, as well as, seed and VC financing sources, technology transfer, is responsible for the: - Strategic planning and development of portfolio of services - bringing to market new businesses and new products- Business Prospecting and managing company client’s portfolio - Definition of Business Models, Proposals Design and support in the Negotiation phases; - Definition of the marketing positioning and coordination of the marketing and communication activities and staff - Promotion of Partner Search- Funding Advising – R&D and Innovation public and private financing sources - Mentoring of new entrepreneurs and regular speaker on themes such as innovation, R&D and Innovation funding, Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Tech TransferHe was involved in the coordination of several EU funded projects focusing, innovation, entrepreneurship and technology transfer, among others, BOOST-IT (innovation services providers network addressing SMEs and new start-ups), European Space Agency Technology Transfer Programme in Portugal (broker activities addressing the promotion and application of space technologies in the terrestrial sector), RedIncoPyme (Promotion of technology transfer between Universities and Industrial Sector), Metalmorphosis FP7 project conception (Optimization of joining processes for new automotive metal-composite hybrid parts). During the last years, he was directly involved in the creation and early stage of 15 new startups from different tech areas: robotics, wireless sensor networks, RFID, energy efficiency, industrial production, mobile gamesIn cooperation with 2 Business Angels, he launched seed funding Company (INDEX TALENT) with a dedicated seed fund (1,4M€) to invest in new technology based companies.

Assistance to university the entrepreneurs in the launching process of new spin-offs, from the idea to the raising capital stage.

Contacts with SMEs and industrial companies, investment projects analysis, negotiation of voice solutions and Internet, namely dedicated networks,VPN’s and other type of technical solutions.