Antonio Soares
Board Member
European Innovation Council
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Coach and Mentor for EIC Business Acceleration Services , supporting EIC Awardees from the EIC Accelerator, EIC Transition and EIC Pathfinder (FET Active/Open)
My organisation
About me
Coaching and Mentoring focusing on IVD Molecular Diagnostics, Infectious Diseases + AMR, and Veterinary Diagnostics ; including use of AI/ML tools for improved diagnostic results and interpretation.
Results-driven entrepreneur/consultant, track record in Strategy (market/product/corporate) development/implementation, strategic alliance development, global commercial strategy.
Built/sold several companies in Life Sciences Tools/Diagnostic; Coached >100 SMEs in EIC since 2016; attracted > 100M € in non-dilutive funding/VC.
The EIC business coaching is available for various target groups and will be tailor made to deliver the desired outcome for each of them:
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For Accelerator applicants (2nd stage) and Seal-of-Excellence teams, the objective is to improve the value proposition, business plan and investor pitch.
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For Pathfinder researchers the objective is to discover innovation opportunities and to provide insight into the entrepreneurship potential.
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For Transition teams the objective is to analyse the industry and to create a value proposition.
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For Accelerator start-ups and scale-ups, the objective is to improve the business plan, the strategy implementation and a faster market entry.
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In the Women Leadership Program (WLP), we offer additional WLP coaching to help leaders tackle potential glass ceiling issues.
Skills
- IVD
- personalised medicine
- Biomarkers
- antimicrobial resistance
- veterinary
- market intelligence
- immunoassay
- Clinical Validation
- ELISA
- health
- non-dilutive funding
- AI/ML
- clinical microbiolog
- AST
- AMR