Team
President and CEO
Nuno Afonso
Nuno currently leads FASTinov. His has a diverse health sector experience, including Venture Capital with Portugal Ventures and Pharmaceuticals with Jansen / J&J. He founded TechnoZeb/TechnoPhage and HinnovaCare. His academic background includes a Post-Doc Research at Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM/IGC, Lisbon, Portugal), a PhD from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France) and an MBA from The Lisbon MBA (Portugal).
Founder & CSO
Cidália Pina Vaz
Cidália is a founder of FASTinov since 2013 and its Chief Scientific Officer. She has a long experience in academia, being a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto and having published 300+ articles. She also worked as a Clinical Pathology consultant at the São João hospital in Porto. A leading Microbiologist, she was member of the EUCAST steering committee as the national representative for Portugal. She has an MD from the U. Porto, Portugal, and a PhD in Medicine (U. Porto, Portugal).
COO
Ricardo Sousa
Ricardo is FASTinov’s COO, leading operations and commercialization. With extensive medtech experience, he led commercial and marketing organizations in medtech corporations (Medtronic, Edwards Lifesciences), having held several international positions covering Europe, Asia and Latin America. He also founded Vitanect, a medtech venture, and worked in Pharmaceuticals (Lilly) and consulting (NTT Data). He holds a degree in Economics (NovaSBE, Portugal) and an MBA from INSEAD (France and Singapore).
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