Bio

Education: I'm an engineer (6 years), a graduate (5 years) in business administration and specialist in innovation, science and technology. I´m PhD on topics around Science Entrepreneurship -my passion-! Experience: +20 years managing Science, Technology and Infrastructures (Science Parks, Liaison Offices, Clusters,...) and Public management (Foundations, Regional Development Agencies,...) Skills: Fundraising and Sponsorships in S&T; Managing SMEs Companies to reach their goals; Spin-off and Technological SME (Manager, Business Development); Consultant for strategic planning in food, biotech, vet sector and for strategic planning for territories and/or cities. Non-Profits projects: * General Secretary of Spanish Association for the Advancement of Science (AEAC) * President of Alcorcón Emprende * Member of Board of the Young Council and Vicepresidente of Entrepreneurship Committee of CEIM (Madrid Confederation of Employers´ Organization) * Former Vice-President at Madrid Young Entrepreneurs Association (AJE Madrid) * R&D & Innovation Group at CEOE (Spanish Confederation of Employers' Organizations) Academic activity: * Honorary professor at Science Faculty in Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. * Associate Professor at Advance Business School. UNIR; Graduate School Lasalle; Univ Europea de Madrid; Univ Rey Juan Carlos and Course Director and professor at EOI --- I´ve worked for Genome Spain and Science and Technology Ministry; as consultant for Valencia, Basque and Madrid Regional Governments in different innovation management fields, the Madrid Science Parks and Clusters Network as a Innovation Manager, Alcala University Science Park as General Director; I´ve worked in Madrid Regional Government (Foundation for knowledge Madri+d) and in Madrid-MIT M+Vision Consortium. From 2015 to june 2021, I have been managing the Foundation of one of the best Universities in Spain & Europe: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, with the responsibility of managing the transfer of knowledge between research groups and companies and other non-profit institutions, lifelong training offered by UAM and the AlumniUAM program. Actually, I´m in charge as regional viceminister for universities, science and innovation of the government of Madrid Region. Follow me in Twitter: @firoba