Biography
Gerardo is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience leading technical projects and launching new ventures. He has been a consultant to technology companies, governments and international or regional organizations in the United States, Europe and Latin America. He is co -founder of LatIPnet, www.latipnet.org a not-for-profit corporation based on NASA Ames Research Park focused on intellectual property and technology commercialization in US, Latin America and Europe, and co – founder of several startups. He has served as Director of Technology Transfer of the University of Las Palmas www.ulpgc.es and also as Director of the Regional Development Agency of the Canary Islands from where he led the design of the investment funds for technological entrepreneurs and innovative SMEs of the for a total of € 52M. Since October 2016, he has been in charge of the Triple Helix project, the first Canarian private initiative to invest in technology-based business projects based on public R & D. www.3hlx.es