We sponsor innovation in Agribusiness sectors where high growth potential is perceived. Partners at NTAgro are some of the most respected Brazilian executives and entrepreneurs, who bring their vast professional experience to bear on our invested businesses.NTAgro has current interests in Biotechnology, veterinary sciences, precision instruments, and advanced materials.Learn more at www.ntagro.com.br (in Portuguese).

Working with technology-intensive businesses to design Innovation Strategy and Management as an integral part of Corporate Strategy. We have contributed with leading Brazilian and multinational companies such as BRF, Natura, Kimberly-Clark, Givaudan, Novozymes and Cia Suzano.

Responsible for Innovation Strategy consultancy to the private sector.Major client engagements with Operators and several first tier suppliers in the Oil & Gas industry; as well as with the Consumer Products; Pharmaceuticals; and Pulp & Paper industrial sectors.Open Innovation projects mobilizing a network of more than 70 companies, universities and R&D organizations from Brazil and abroad.

Rastreal provides traceability solutions for industrial and logistic processes, by means of auto-identification technologies such as RFID. The company was built on knowledge and experience accumulated by its founders at Embraer and the University of Cambridge. Rastreal grew within one of the densest and most diverse industrial clusters in Latin America. In the first semester of 2013 the company was merged into Tendencies IT Systems from São Paulo, Brazil.

Director of a networked R&D programme led by the Unv. of Cambridge and sponsored by Airbus, Boeing, British Telecom Auto-ID, BAE Systems, Embraer, and T-Systems (among others). The consortium was organized as the Aerospace Auto-ID Technologies Programme (2006-2007).Senior Consultant in Technology Strategy for large European businesses and government agencies, including BAE Systems and the British Ministry of Defence (2007-2008).http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/services/overview/contact/ecs-team/

Lead intrapreneur in the design, development and deployment of Embraer's AHEAD remote aircraft monitoring business (AHEAD was eventually awarded the Brazilian National Innovation Prize in 2013).Manager of a US$ 40 million portfolio of innovation projects in advanced systems.Co-responsible for consolidating the corporate Technology Strategy and creating a central R&D Unit overseeing innovation projects for all Engineering disciplines.Team manager for process design within risk-sharing partnerships for the ERJ-170/190 aircraft family, at interfaces with global partners GE, Honeywell, and Kawasaki HI (among others).

Provided investment leads and advice in the Aerospace sector

Managerial and Engineering assignments within the Aerospace and Oil & Gas industries in Brazil and in Europe.