Goncalo Amorim
Founder and CEO
BGI
Portugal
About me
Gonçalo Amorim is the Founder and CEO of BGI and a non-executive director of CoLAB Food4Sustainability. Gonçalo has over 20 years of experience in venture capital, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Started off his career in England back in 1997 designing scientific experiments at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire (UK), joining in 2000 Hewlett Packard Semiconductor division (UK), where he filed a dozen of international patents (US, Europe & Japan). In Portugal since 2005, Gonçalo held several managerial roles in some of the most dynamic and successful Portuguese multinationals listed in the Portuguese Stock exchange, PSI20. In the past 10 years, Gonçalo has mentored over 200 tech-based founders, entrepreneurial teams and technology start-ups & spinoffs through various structured programs. Gonçalo has been actively involved as an advisor & board member in a number of emerging technology-intense start-ups.
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Speaker sessions (1)
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
16:00 - 16:40
Building Powerful Alliances in Female Entrepreneurship
Onsite at La Distillerie - Lisbon