e-Teams Crash Course: Speakers panel

ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Venture Competition E-teams crash-course – Speakers Panel Luís Antero Reto – ISCTE-IULs Rector Luis Antero Reto holds a degree in Clinical Psychology, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada de Lisboa, and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Louvain-la Neuve, Belgium. In 2001 he started his aggregation to ISCTE-IUL in the Marketing field, institution where he became a teacher in 2001. He was Director of ISPA (1983-1985) and President of INDEG / ISCTE (1998-2005) and the Technical Director of the Center for Surveys (SIC 1997/2002). Luís Antero Reto is a founding partner of CSR Portugal - Association for Corporate Social Responsibility and the President of the Center for the Study of Public and Social Economy (CEEPS / CIRIEC). Author of eight books and several scientific papers. José Paulo Esperança – ISCTE-IULs Vice Rector for International Affaires Head of AUDAX, the entrepreneurship center of ISCTE-IUL since its inception in 2005, which has trained many aspiring entrepreneurs and contributed to the launching of over 100 new ventures. Audax has also organized an entrepreneurship competition broadcasted on a national TV channel and has launched a new, technology based, competition in association with MIT. He has written and consulted on services and emerging multinationals, small firms’ governance and financing, executive compensation, real options and venture capital. His publications include articles in Portuguese Review of Financial Markets, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Management Research, Portuguese Journal of Management Studies, Corporate Ownership, among others. He is a member of the board of the CPADA, the Portuguese federation of environmental associations and has been actively involved in promoting eco-friendly mobility infrastructures, including bike paths and the development of public transportation. Organisers Award partnerCopyright 2009-2010Audax Center forEntrepreneurshipISCTE-IUL

ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Venture Competition E-teams crash-course – Speakers Panel Gonçalo Amorim – MPP IEI Program Director, ISCTE-IUL Gonçalo Amorim combines more than 12 years in project management coupled with the actual deployment and successful delivery of venture capital projects, including company turn-arounds and the implementation of several carbon mitigating strategies: all at an industrial level. These have enabled him an intricate understanding of the complexities of operational management of several industries and high-tech sectors. He started off in 1997 designing scientific equipments at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, and later on joined HP Fibre Optics Divison (Ipswich, UK). He successfully filed several international patents (US, Europe & Japan). In Portugal, Gonçalo held several managerial roles in some of the most dynamic and successful Portuguese multinationals (Sonae & Semapa) listed in the Portuguese Stock exchange, PSI20. Holds an MSc in Engineering Management from the University of Bristol and is a Chartered Engineer by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK). José Estabil – MPP IEI Program Director, MIT José Estabil has 20 years of experience in translating technology into dominant designs and high growth businesses. Mr. Estabil was President of Tau-Metrix and launched an electron beam inspection business (Cadence) in Japan. He introduced the film measurement dominant technology (KLA-Tencor) to and helped pioneer Copper wires (IBM) for the semiconductor industry. Before joining Prof. Charles L. Cooney’s Innovation group, he managed the Materials Science and Software Patent Portfolio for MIT’s Technology Licensing Office and was an active volunteer at the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. He is a advisor to Arctic Sand, TT Ventures, and tau-Metrix, and a Catalyst for MIT Innovation Teams. Mr. Estabil earned his Sc. B. and Sc. M. in Physics from Brown University. He holds eight U.S. patents, and has authored or co-authored over twenty publications in the fields of semiconductor materials and semiconductor metrology. Organisers Award partnerCopyright 2009-2010Audax Center forEntrepreneurshipISCTE-IUL

ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Venture Competition E-teams crash-course – Speakers Panel Hugo Gamboa – CEO PLUX Hugo Gamboa is a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon and is currently Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the Sciences and Technology Faculty of the New University of Lisbon. He is a founder and CEO of PLUX, a technology-based innovative startup in the field of systems and wireless medical sensors, where he currently coordinates a multidisciplinary team that covers microelectronics, biosignal processing and software development. In 2007 he was awarded with a grant from the Luso-American Development Foundation which led him to conduct research at the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Lab, directed by the worldwide recognized researcher Dr. Anil Jain, at Michigan State University (USA). In recognition of his work by the European Biometric Forum, he was among the three finalists of the EBF European Biometric Research Award 2007, which awards PhD works on Biometrics. Rui Lança – Coach and Trainer for Leadership, Team Coaching, Team Cognition and Facilitation Rui Lança graduated in Sports Science and has a Master in Sports Management and an Executive Master in Auditing and Management Control for Un. Católica do Porto and EGE. After he received both certificates in Coaching (Individual, Organizations and Teams) and Leadership and Management Teams. He has been collaborating with NGOs for six years in the European Council in projects relating to training, facilitation and entrepreneurship. Rui Lança wrote three books published ab. Rui Lança wrote out dynamics and one to be published on "How to build high performance teams?" . http://coachdocoach.blogspot.com/ Organisers Award partnerCopyright 2009-2010Audax Center forEntrepreneurshipISCTE-IUL

ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Venture Competition E-teams crash-course – Speakers Panel Shailendra Rai – Assistant Professor at Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon Shailendra Kumar Rai is a (Ph.D), Banaras Hindu University and a General Fellow of Indian Council of Social Science Research. Presently, he is an Assistant Professor of Finance and Accounting at Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon. Dr. Rai has published over 40 research papers especially in the areas of finance, financial institutions and entrepreneurship. Dr. Rai has extensive cross-national experience having worked at the Banaras Hindu University, (India); George Mason University¸ U.S.A., Max Plank Institute of Economics (Germany); Jonkoping International Business School (Sweden), among others. Dr. Rai has offered consultancy and conducted training for various corporations such as Life Corporation of India, Bharat Electrical Ltd., Jindal Steel Ltd., Canara Bank and the amongst others and government departments (Department of Science & Technology¸ Indian Railways, Indian Armed Forces etc). Dr. Rai is a sought after speaker and has addressed various Indian and global audiences in various countries. Virgínia Trigo – Full Professor of Entrepreneurship at ISCTE-IUL Professor Vírginia Trigo is a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation of the University of California, Berkeley; a PhD in Management, ISCTE and an MSc in Strategy and Entrepreneurial Development, University of Macau. Currently she is an associate Professor at the Department of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour, ISCTE; Director of Post Graduate Programs in China and a visiting Professor at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; Southern Medical University; Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and ESC Clermont-Ferrand. Her main fields of study study and research are: Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Organizational Behaviour, China and Asian Markets.Professor Virginia Trigo wrote several academic papers, articles in the press and books including: entre os quais: “Cultura Económica Chinesa – Como Negociar na China?” e “Entre o Estado e o Mercado – Empreendedorismo e a Condição do Empresário na China”. Organisers Award partnerCopyright 2009-2010Audax Center forEntrepreneurshipISCTE-IUL

ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Venture Competition E-teams crash-course – Speakers Panel Vasco Trigo – Portuguese Radio Television Journalist (RTP2) Vasco Trigo is a Journalist at the Portuguese Radio Television (RTP2). He made his carreer at RTP, the largest national public television. He is a professor at the School of Social Communication at the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon and Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. He made political journalism, presented the 24 hours, Telejornal, Jornal 2. He was distinguished in journalism dedicated to the Technology and Science field, namely through coordination and presentation, over 12 years, of the Weekly Magazine "2010," the program "Só Energia”. He received the Seeds of Science Award (Ciência Hoje) and the Award "Person of the Year in the field of Information Society," by the Association for the Promotion and Development for the Information Society, both in 2009. Vanessa Fatal – Portuguese IP Office, INPI Vanessa Fatal works as a Patent Examiner at the National Institute of Industrial Property since 2007 in the area of Chemistry. She has a degree in Chemical Engineer, from the New University of Lisbon, Faculty of Science and Technologies. Prior to joining INPI, Vanessa Fatal made research work in the biotechnology field in Instituto Superior Técnico, from 2005 until 2007. Vanessa Fatal also holds a Graduate Specialization Course on Management Integrated Systems: Quality, Security and Environment, obtained at SGS Portugal, SA. Organisers Award partnerCopyright 2009-2010Audax Center forEntrepreneurshipISCTE-IUL

ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Venture Competition E-teams crash-course – Speakers Panel Dina Chaves – Director ofConsultancy and Technology Intelligence Director at Clarke, Modet & Co. Portugal. Dina Chaves was a Technology Transfer Advisor at the Science & Technology School from the New University of Lisbon (UNL), and Board Advisor of the Portuguese Industrial Property Office. She has a MSc Degree at Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra and she’s an Invited Teacher in several Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Programs at UNL and ISEG-UTL. She is author of several papers about IP and the valorization of R&D results within the academic context. She participates in several conferences, workshops and advanced courses and a member of international networks addressing the issues of technology transfer and IPR. João Faria Gomes – Teacher and Master Co-ordinator at ISCTE-IUL João Faria Gomes is an MA in Business Administration from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He started his carreer at Unilever Portuguesa as Brand Manager and later in 2000 he joined Wolff Olins as a Consultant. Since 2004 he is a teacher and Co-ordinator of the Master Program at ISCTE-IUL where he teatches Brand Management and Innovation & Creativity. He maintains his consultancy activity at Kayak, since 2005. Organisers Award partnerCopyright 2009-2010Audax Center forEntrepreneurshipISCTE-IUL

ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Venture Competition E-teams crash-course – Speakers Panel Tobias Brambrink – Wolf Greenfield Tobias Brambrink is a Technology Specialist at Wolf Greenfield, a Boston (USA) law firm specializing in intellectual property. After obtaining a graduate degree in Biology from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, went to the US in 2002 to conduct his a postdoctoral work in Rudolf Jaenischs laboratory at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, MA, USA. During his time at Whitehead, Tobias Brambrink authored and co-authored several publications in leading scientific journals including Nature, Science, Cell, Cell Stem Cell, and PNAS. Later on 2008 joins Wolf Greenfield in 2008 mainly assisting the firms Biotech and Pharma groups in patent prosecution, due diligence, and opinion matters, including prosecution of patent applications, portfolio evaluation and development for startup companies. Walter Palma – Caixa Capital Walter Palma is a Director at Caixa Capital, the venture capital and private equity arm of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Portugal’s largest financial group. Walter has over twenty years of professional experience, both in Portugal and internationally. Walter began his career with KMPG Canada, having transferred to the Portuguese office in 1991, where he specialized in the financial services sector and Corporate Finance. He later moved to Banco Finantia, a small Portuguese investment bank, where he exercised roles as Head of Research and as a Director in the Corporate Finance department. In 2001, Walter moved to the CGD Group to help found a corporate venturing operation specialised in investing in and developing internet and technology start-ups. Walter has an MBA in International Management from Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Walter is currently responsible for managing Caixa Capital’s entrepreneurship and innovation VC fund, FCR Empreender+. Organisers Award partnerCopyright 2009-2010Audax Center forEntrepreneurshipISCTE-IUL

ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Venture Competition E-teams crash-course – Speakers Panel Miguel Cerqueira Gomes – Cerqueira Gomes & Associados Licenciated at Faculty of Law of Coimbra University (1980), with additional qualifications from the Portuguese Catholic University (Management and Economic-Financial Analysis of Businesses and European Community Law), he has been continuously practicing law since 1983, with particular focus on negotiation and litigation in practically all branches of law, and an active intervention in thousands of lawsuits in the law courts and hundreds of processes in courts of arbitration, as both a lawyer and arbitrator. Miguel Cerqueira Gomes has been General Adviser to the Portuguese Bar Association and he is member of the examination board for membership to the Portuguese Bar Association and of various international law organizations. He has been guest speaker at a number of international seminars, congresses and conferences, and he is author of a number of publications on legal subjects, in Portugal and abroad. Gabriela Pinheiro – Cerqueira Gomes & Associados Licentiated at Portuguese Catholic University Porto (1991), she has been continuously practising law since 1992 in practically all branches of law. She is trainer of the Portuguese Bar Association and professor of Tax Law at ISCAP (Porto Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration). After completing a Master’s degree in Law-Faculty of Law of Coimbra University (1997), she has been professor of many Postgraduate courses, such as Postgraduate Course in Taxation-Moderna University, Porto (2001-2002), Program for Advanced Corporate Tax Instruction-Portuguese Catholic University Porto (1998-1999), Postgraduate course in Corporate Labour and Tax Consultancy-Fernando Pessoa University (1997-2000). She is author of [Direct Taxation in the European Union], Universidade Católica Portuguesa: Porto, 1998. Organisers Award partnerCopyright 2009-2010Audax Center forEntrepreneurshipISCTE-IUL

ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Venture Competition E-teams crash-course – Speakers Panel Nicolau Santos – Director, Expresso Nicolau Santos holds a degree in Economics from the University of Lisbon. He started his professional activity at Jornal de Notícias. Later, in 1984 goes to Jornal Expresso. He was chief of the Section of Economics of the news agency ANOP (1984 - 1986), participated in the economic program TV "Contas Claras" (RTP2) and Telejornal (RTP1) in 1985 and 1986, respectively. In 1987 Co-founds the "Semanário Económico" assuming its direction between October 1989 and April 30, 1992. Was responsible for the television program "Acerto de Contas" and analyst on economic issues of the Jornal das Nove (RTP2) between January and April 1992. He was awarded several times, namely in 2006, when he received from the President of the Portugal, Jorge Sampaio - Ordem of Infante D. Henrique. Carlos Alves – HFA, Globaltronic Carlos Alves holds a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro, with a specialization in Quality Engineering. He began his professional path in 1986 in Águeda, and now divides his time among several companies in which he is a Chief Officer the areas of electronics and telecommunications. He founded and is currently a member of several associations related to the promotion of Quality of Life and Well-Being, associated environmental, health and sustainability. Organisers Award partnerCopyright 2009-2011Audax Center forEntrepreneurshipISCTE-IUL

ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Venture Competition E-teams crash-course – Speakers Panel João Neto – Diligence Capital João Neto holds a BSc in Electro-technical, Electronics and IT Engineering (FEUP - Oporto University) and an MSc in Industrial Informatics (FEUP). He started an IT research career while attending University at INESC, where he developed IT expertise in several technical domains as well as project management experience. In 1997 he founded and was the CEO and shareholder of Novabase Porto and Novabase Saúde, both of which subsidiaries, were considered the largest Portuguese IT Services companies. Later in 2006, he founded Diligence Capital - a privately held Venture Capital firm based in Portugal focusing in early stage IT, where he is a shareholder and Managing Partner. He is also a Chairman and President of NDrive Navigation Systems. He his a beaord member in several companies, including BioDevices, Nmusic, QuiiQ and Autonomia. José Jesus – Dueto SGPS José Jesus holds a degree in Electrical Engineering (IST – Technical University of Lisbon) and a MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computers) from the same University. He stayed there as an Assistant Professor, while working at INESC as a researcher, until 1991, the year in which founded, was President and CEO of Octal, Engenharia de Sistemas, SA. Later co-founded and became President of OctalTV. In 2000 he merged both companies with Novabase, going public in the Portuguese stock market. He left the board of Novabase sgps in 2008 to join the board of Efacec Sistemas de Electrónica, SA. José Jesus co-founded DUETO sgps, a venture capital company tailored to invest in technological startups. Dueto has a "hands-on" approach on investments, having presently a dozen investments in the portfolio. Organisers Award partnerCopyright 2009-2010Audax Center forEntrepreneurshipISCTE-IUL

ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Venture Competition E-teams crash-course – Speakers Panel José Basílio Simões – ISA-Intelligent Sensing Anywhere, S.A José Basílio Simões, is co-founder, President and CEO of the high-tech company ISA. He has grown the company from zero to 100 people and €5 million turnover attracting major international customer accounts such as BP, Shell, Repsol and Primagaz. Since 2006 ISAs green tech solutions saved 63,200 tons of CO2 emissions for Oil & Gas companies. In 2009 ISA launches iMeter, an Energy Saving kit that will help to meet the Copenhagen climate change targets, saving 1.6 million tons of CO2 until 2015. He is also Professor at the Science and Technology Faculty of the University of Coimbra. He holds a PhD in Technological Physics and over 20 years experience in the areas of electronics, telemetry and remote management, real-time embedded systems, digital signal processing and instrumentation applied to energy, utilities, environment and healthcare domains. He is author or co-author of several dozens of scientific publications in international refereed journals, managed several European projects and developed and patented several innovative remote management systems Paulo Trezentos – Caixa Mágica, Technical director of the portuguese Linux distribution. Paulo Trezentos has an MSc in Informatics Engineering from ISCTE-IUL. He is a Teacher assistant at ISCTE-IUL, lecturing Operational Systems and Computing Architecture. He is also a researcher at ADETTI, ISCTEs-IUL research centre. His main scientific interests are: operating systems, high performance computing / grids and Open Source development. He his involved in several projects namely: HICOD2000 - European Space Agency (ESA) project in the fields of security and Grids; Arco - Grid project with Biblioteca Nacional for digital library storage; EDOS - Leader of the CM team in EDOS, one of the largest IST funded european projects in the area of the R&D of Linux tools & open source software. He is a Co-Founder of an IT & Software ISCTE-IUL spin-out Caixa Mágica where he his a Chief Technology Officer. Organisers Award partnerCopyright 2009-2010Audax Center forEntrepreneurshipISCTE-IUL

ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Venture Competition E-teams crash-course – Speakers Panel Alberto Cunha – Taguspark Alberto Cunha has an Msc and a PhD in Electrotechnic Engineering and Computer Science from IST (Lisbon University). He has accomplished several positions in the Academia namely at the Informatic Engineering Department as a Professor and as a Member of the scientific commission of the same Master degree. Simultaneously, has performed in the consulting and IT area as an Board member of several comanies in the past ten years, including Link consulting, Knowledge People, Bithium, Tecmic, Siscog-Link-Tecmic, ACE. Was a Promoter of the YouMove company. In 2010, joins Taguspark, one of the leading incubators in Lisbon as a member of the executive committee. Catarina Machado Madeira – MPP IEI Operations Coordinator, ISCTE-IUL With a scientific background, Chemistry and Pharma, Catarina has performed mainly in industrial environment – Personal Care business, holding a Master degree in Industrial Cosmetology, from the University of Lyon. She started at Saboaria e Perfumaria Confiança (Braga, Portugal) in 2003 and later joined L’Oréal (Paris, France), having accomplished in product development, regulatory affaires and scientific communication. Returning to Portugal in 2009 she joined AUDAX, the Entrepreneurship Center of ISCTE – Lisbon Universitary Institute, being MIT Portugal – IEIs’ Operations Coordinator. Organisers Award partnerCopyright 2009-2010Audax Center forEntrepreneurshipISCTE-IUL

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