Month Flat Week Day
Date:
Friday, September 06, 2013 15:00
Categories:
Career outside academia seminar series: 
Speaker:
Florin Paun
Business Development Deputy Director at ONERA

Title:
From Research to Business Development: challenges in how to create value

Host:
Daniel Pacurar

Room: KB3A9, lilla hörsalen
Resume: 
Dr. Florin Paun  is Business Developpement Deputy Director at ONERA since January 2005. He is in charge with the Technology Transfer and International Development, and defines programs and new partnership policies focusing on complementary knowledge, cross suporting offers, mutual intellectual property valuation, joint spin-off,… 
Previously, he was Senior Science and Technology Expert in materials and structures, Project Coordinator for Multifunctional Materials Program at ONERA, Technical Correspondant for ONERA – DARPA project on Design of High Temperature Acoustic Absorbent Materials and also teached for master degree in aerospace. 
In parallel Dr. Paun has extensive business development experience outside France, especially in emerging East-European markets. He had created his own Engineering and Development Company and he is an associated founder of a dynamic start-up in France.  
He obtained his PhD at ENSICA, Toulouse 1998. Previously, he has joined Ecole Polytechnique, ParisTech, after receiving a Master in Aerospace Engineering at the Aeronautic Faculty in Bucharest.
He has an Executive Certificate awarded by the MIT Sloan on”Management and Leadership”, 2007.