Annual Conference: Speakers
UTEN Annual Conference 2011
14 November 2024
FEUP, University of Porto, Portugal
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Pedro Araújo
CEO, Advanced Cyclone Systems
Pedro Ribas Araújo is the CEO of Advanced Cyclone Systems, SA (ACS), a company established in May 2008, specializing in the development and commercialization of patented cyclone systems for particle capture in the industry.
Born in Oporto in 07.01.1977, Pedro graduated in Management and Industrial Engineering in the Engineering Faculty of Porto (FEUP) in 2001 and began his professional career in logistics and sales forecasting in the clothing company Throttleman.
Having started working in Throttleman was very important to consolidate the scientific approach to management that he had been taught in college, and also to broaden his knowledge of areas related to strategy and marketing. The decentralized culture of intrapreneurship inside Throttleman proved to be critical for Pedro to take the decision to develop his own business ventures.
Beginning in 2003, he co-founded several companies in the area of Sports Facilities Management, where he worked as Commercial Director (MyIndoor, LxIndoor and Outdoor 7) and in which he still has ownership positions. The group has built and operates altogether 19 sports facilities, a total of 25 football fields with artificial turf.
Between 2005 and 2007 Pedro took an MBA from the New University of Lisbon in which he participated in the COHiTEC program. This singular program aims to join management students and scientists together with the purpose of creating technology-based firms with high growth potential. The ReCyclone technology developed at FEUP by Romualdo Salcedo – full Professor at that institution - was proposed by Pedro to the program and passed all stages of selection until capital was raised from Espítio Santo Ventures.
ReCyclone Systems are now ACS’ flagship product and serve as a technological platform to solve gas-solid separation problems across many industries and geographies.
Enrique Barba
CIRSA
Enrique Barba holds a Ph.D in Telecommunications Engineering and an MsC in Business and Organization Management from the Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain.
He has been General Manager of the B2B Division of CIRSA since 2006.
Previously, he was Senior VP at Terra Lycos, TV Manufacturing General at Sony Spain, General Manager of Roca York Portugal, Engineering manager at Roca York and TV R&D Manager at Philips Spain.
Last September he received the 2011 Best Manager Award from ENBIS (the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics) in Coimbra.
He has collaborated since 1995 as associate professor with ESADE Business school and Polytechnical University of Catalonia giving lectures about innovation management.
He has been keynote speaker at several international congresses about innovation management.
He has written several books about innovation management. The latest is 100 Counsels to Inspire and Manage Innovation (in Spanish), Editorial Libros de Cabecera, Barcelona, 2011.
His blog about innovation (in Spanish) is www.enricbarba.com.
Anthony Boccanfuso
Executive Director, University Industry Demonstration Partnership
US National Academies of Science
Anthony (Tony) Boccanfuso serves as the Executive Director for the National Academies’ University Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP). He holds a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of South Carolina and earned his B.S. in Political Science and Chemistry from Furman University.
Dr. Boccanfuso began his professional career as a Science Policy Fellow at the American Chemical Society where he worked within the society’s government relations and science policy division. Before taking on this position, Dr. Boccanfuso was Director for Research and Economic Development at the University of South Carolina and currently retains the position of Senior Director for Strategic Alliances within the College of Engineering and Computing.
Dr. Boccanfuso has had a distinguished career in the research management and science policy arenas and has held a variety of positions at the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and PricewaterhouseCoopers as well as several universities.
He currently serves on several boards including the National Hydrogen Association, the MedStar Health Research Institute and the Hydrogen Education Foundation for which he is the current chair.
Tara Branstad
Associate Director
Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CTTEC), Carnegie Mellon University
Tara works primarily with CMU faculty in Robotics, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Cylab (computer security), and the Tepper School (business). Tara has worked with a variety of licensing models, including traditional commercial, open source, and new company creation. In her capacity as Associate Director of CTTEC, Tara is responsible for overseeing our Enterprise Creation (start-up) activities and managing our Gap Fund Program. She also assists the Director with administrative and finance duties.
Tara came to CMU in October 2005. She began her professional career in technology transfer at the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Technology Management. She then worked at Innovation Works, a seed stage funding and technology-based economic development organization, and as an independent consultant. Tara is married to a serial entrepreneur and has two young children. She received her BA in Biology from the University of Virginia and her MBA/MHA in marketing and health policy and administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
Manuel Cendoya
Founder of San Sebastian Technology Park
Manuel Cendoya holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Navarra (Spain). He later specialized in Technology Transfer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Cambridge, MA), the Imperial College (London, UK), and the Fraunhofer-ISI (Karlsruhe, Germany). From 1981 to 1988 he carried out scientific research on electromagnetic fields numerical analysis at CEIT, and was a professor at the universities of Navarra and Deusto. For more than 20 years he has specialized in science and technology parks, technology transfer and regional innovation policies. From 1990 he set up and ran San Sebastian Technology Park, and was its Director since its foundation in 1994 to the end of 2003. He participated in research projects in collaboration with partners such as MIT, the European Space Agency, Stanford University, the Fraunhofer-IGD, and the London Symphony Orchestra. From 2004 to 2009 he was based in Panama, holding the Project Leader position of a European Union Project on Technology Transfer between Europe and Latin America. As a private consultant he has collaborated with governments and institutions in different countries.
He has an extensive musical background, with piano, organ, and choral conducting studies in San Sebastian, Brugges, Ghent, and London. He was a choir member of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Philharmonia Chorus of London, and the Orfeón Donostiarra, having participated in a great number of recordings and concerts in the most prominent concert halls around the world under Carlo Maria Giulini, Daniel Barenboim, Lorin Maazel, Neville Marriner, and Simon Rattle to name some. He has served (2002-2010) as a member of the Advisory Council of the London Symphony Orchestra.
In the social area, he served as Director of Caritas of Guipuzcoa, working for immigrants and socially excluded people, and as President of Izan Foundation for the reintegration of drug addicts. In Panama he worked actively in El Chorrillo, the most dangerous and deprived outlying area of Panama City.
He has given lectures in different countries (USA, China, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Chile, Peru, …). Currently he works as an international consultant.
Søren Hellener
Head of Office for Research and Innovation
The Office for Research and Innovation (AFI) is responsible for the following main tasks: research, PhD programme and innovation. The Office provides advice and guidance on research, innovation, education and industrial collaboration to students, employees, industrial collaboration partners and other interested parties. Accordingly, AFI handles questions regarding:
• DTU’s policy and strategies on research
• Externally funded research (including research under EU)
• Goal-oriented collaboration agreements with DTU
• Inventions and patenting
• Commercialisation
• Business start-up
• General questions regarding research at DTU’s departments and centres
Furthermore, AFI can be consulted on all matters regarding the PhD programme.
AFI has the administrative responsibility for the fulfilment of DTU’s goals and strategies within the fields of research and innovation.
Rick McCullough
Vice-President of Research, Carnegie Mellon University
Richard McCullough was appointed vice president for research at Carnegie Mellon University in July 2007. In this new senior leadership position, McCullough will nurture interdisciplinary research initiatives and oversee sponsored research, technology commercialization and a number of cross-college research centers. Prior to this position he served as the dean of the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He came to Carnegie Mellon in 1990 as an assistant professor and quickly rose through the tenure ranks, being promoted to associate professor in 1995 and professor in 1998. In 1998 he assumed the role of department head of chemistry. He was appointed dean of the Mellon College of Science in 2001.
McCullough is internationally known as the world’s expert in the area of printable electronics and is well known for his discovery of regioregular polythiophenes- a material that led to plastic solar cells and plastic transistors. His research focuses on the design and understanding of the structure-property relationships in conducting materials and nanoelectronics.
In addition to his position at Carnegie Mellon, McCullough is also the chief scientist and founder of Plextronics, Inc., the world leader in developing active layer technology for printed electronics devices, such as organic light-emitting diode displays, polymer solar cells and plastic circuitry. Since its inception in 2002, the Pittsburgh Company has grown to more than 70 employees and received numerous honors, among them being named the 2008 Going Green Top 100 Company and a Wall Street Journal Technology Award runner-up.
He was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University and holds a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. from The University of Texas at Dallas.
Robert Peterson
Associate Vice President for Research, the University of Texas at Austin
Robert Peterson’s roles at the University of Texas at Austin include Associate Vice President for Research, John T. Stuart III Centennial Chair in Business Administration, and Charles Hurwitz Fellow at the IC² Institute.
Dr. Peterson’s doctorate is from the University of Minnesota. For the past few years, his research and teaching interests have been concentrated in the areas of marketing strategy, research methodology, and the quality of self-report data. Professor Peterson has authored nearly 150 books and articles. His articles have appeared in more than three dozen journals, including Management Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Consumer Research, and Marketing Science.
Helena Vieira
President and CEO, Bioalvo
Helena Vieira is the CEO and co-founder of BIOALVO SA, a natural products biotech company focusing on maximizing bioactive discovery, since 2005. She holds a post graduation in Leadership & Strategy in Pharma & Bioptech, from Harvard Business School, Boston, USA and a PhD in Biomedicine from Imperial College of London, UK. She was also a researcher in the molecular and cellular biology fields, in Portugal and UK, and completed several other post graduations in the human molecular genetics field. Before starting-up BIOALVO, she was an Associated Professor and Scientific Coordinator of the biomedical and clinical engineering degrees at the Engineering Faculty of Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon. She also has experience as Principle Investigator at the Biomedical Nucleus, since 2005, at the same university. Currently, Helena is responsible for the supervision & teaching of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology Transfer course to Master Students in the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. She is currently leading a team of 15 people while managing one of the TOP 3 biotech companies in Portugal. Helena is highly skilled in biotech strategy and major technical aspects of natural products bioactive discovery and development fro several industries, from pharmaceutical to cosmetics and nutraceutics.
