

Ignacio Faustino
About
MBA, PhD
Professional with an entrepreneurial mindset and a background in life sciences. Co-founded a spin-off company specialized in oral drug delivery and contributed to the marketing and operations activities to set business goals and strategy.
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Skills
Analytic Problem Solving
B2B Marketing Strategy
Business Strategy
Drug Delivery
Drug Development
English
Entrepreneurship
Executive Presentation Skills
Financial Analysis
Market Research
Public Speaking
Python
R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Spanish
Teamwork
Open for
parttime
fulltime
cofounder
Work Experience
Colonova BV
2019-03 - 2021-05
CEO and co-founder
Remote
fulltime
• Negotiated a license agreement with Technology Transfer Office resulting in no upfront nor historical payments. • Designed and implemented company’s business strategy that provided focus on creating licensing opportunities and strengthening IP position. • Developed marketing plan and customer service support by collecting data and creating a customer management system (CMS). • Performed financial valuation of licensing opportunities and presented to pharmaceutical companies in partnering events and conferences. • Managed investor and prospects inquiries trying to understand their needs and adapting the requested information to deliver offers in a timely manner.
University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
2015-03 - 2019-02
Postdoctoral researcher
Remote
fulltime
• Published eight articles in peer-review journals, including two in Nature Communications and one in Nature Methods. • Supervised several master and PhD students with their projects that resulted in publications in peer-review journals. • Designed and contributed to new research projects that resulted in new international research collaborations. • Enjoyed setting new lines of research in collaboration with other groups. • Learned to write and published analytical tools in Python.
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Barcelona, Spain)
2007-01 - 2013-10
PhD student
Remote
fulltime
• Published ten publications in peer-review journals, including one in Nature Methods. • Collaborated with Pfizer in developing predictive tools for antisense molecules. • Learned and applied several programming languages, such as mySQL, perl, and R.