Functional Skills

Product Strategy
Business Planning
Business Intelligence
Operational Due Diligence
Commercial Due Diligence
Technology Strategy
Change Management / Org Design
Product Design
Commercial Strategy
Business Operations

Software Skills

Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Excel
Adobe Illustrator
Sketch

Sector Experience

Agriculture
Business Services
Healthcare
Life Sciences & Pharma
Technology

Languages

French
English
Spanish
Italian
Dutch
Portuguese

Experience

Prog Ventures Management Consulting
Managing Director
1/2017 - Present
Personal Consulting company. corporate strategy, due-diligence, technology scouting, fundraising, business development, sales and marketing strategy and operations, board roles.
SCI-BRAIN Start-Up
Co-founder & CEO
1/2017 - 12/2023
Platform that leverages AI to identify experts in any scientific topic Responsibilities: product strategy and design, conception of algorithms, go-to-market strategy & ops. Achievements: made the company profitable from the very start with no external investments.
Lounjee Start-Up
Co-founder & CEO
1/2017 - 12/2023
Professional networking platform that builds and monetizes vertical professional and scientific networks. Responsibilities: Product strategy and design, marketing and fund raising. Achievements: raised >$1.2M, made the company self-sustainable.
Kurma Partners Other
Analyst, Venture builder, Advisor
1/2009 - 3/2020
Responsibilities: Joined the fund at the very begining with a role analyst and venture builder (Meiogenix, Key Neurosciences). Achievements: Led their first ventures as CEO, contributed to the fund's venture building model.
Meiogenix Management Consulting
Co-founder & CEO
9/2010 - 3/2020
Breeding technologies to unlock the unexplored genetic diversity of organisms (e.g. plants). Responsibilities: management, fund raising, tech dev and strategic partnerships. Achievements: sealed a strategic deal with Bayer that was functional for raising a $13M investment round, in-licensed technologies from academia, inventor of key patents.
Key Neurosciences Management Consulting
CEO, Board member
1/2011 - 9/2016
Treatment for Parkinson's disease. Responsibilities: Management of the company and of the pre-clinical work. Achievements: raised funds, licensed IP.
BliNK Therapeutics Operations
Interim CEO
12/2014 - 12/2015
Fully human antibody discovery platform. Responsibilities: Appointed as CEO to structure the company after an M&A. Achievements: successful integration of the company within the new ownership.
Cosmo Biosciences Research
Research Fellow
3/2004 - 6/2006
Cosmo Bioscience develops gene therapy treatments for cancer.

Responsibilities: Led a protein engineering project in collaboration with UCSD, Coordinated scientific activities on both sites (company, academia).
Achievements: Inventor of a patent, Developed and implemented ribosome display (eukaryotic) to identify TNF-alpha mimicking peptides.