TRISTAN MENTEC

• Developing foundational IP outputs.
• Integrating core NEXUS components into the platform.
• Leading technology partnerships & research collaborations.
• Managing the organization's IP portfolio: building patent workflows, creating Information Disclosure Forms, and handling attorney communications regarding completion stage for filings.
• Leading investor search & relations for a SAFE round.

• Early partnership & collaboration efforts (academic stakeholders and National Laboratories teams).
• Development of the application pipeline towards Aerospace, Defense and Energy companies and agencies (e.g. DARPA, NRL, AFRL),
• Support of legal counsel and patent attorney on IP development.
• Leading fundraising efforts.

• Advisory for the company on economical & geopolitical aspects, notably regarding their fundraising & partnership efforts in the APAC zone.
• Relationship building between the company and Defense/Intelligence Community stakeholders.
• Competitive intelligence & landscape reports.

Part of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

• Lead on strategic partnerships for startup spin-outs.
• Grant writing (NATO, Canadian Armed Forces, Y Combinator and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada).
• Support of research collaborations for the department and Institute of Quantum Computing.
• Development and cultivation of sales pipelines in semiconductor and Defense industries.

• Co-founding member of the company.
• In charge of building the first version of the organization main database.
• Lead for major consulting contracts (Oxford Instruments, Defense Logistics Agency, Quantum Economic Development Consortium).

• Support to early-stage companies (applications roadmap, grant scouting, market research).
• Industrial relations (research collaborations, strategic partnerships, academia-industry relations).
• Multiple scientific areas (quantum computing, neuromorphic computing, synthetic biology, high-energy physics).

• Creation of a new Business Development Structure for the research center.
• Definition of a Market Intelligence Strategy.
• Commercialization; Technology Licensing; Contracting Process.
• Project Management (quantum computing, computational biology, machine-learning projects).
• Field exploration for CERN Technology Applications (AI, High-Temperature Superconductors, Magnets, Photon counting detectors…).

• Developing new relationships & assessing particular scientific and technological needs.
• Driving business development to identify, evaluate and integrate emerging technologies.
• Management of investment opportunities for emerging technologies as part of projects involving technology-led M&As and commercialization strategy development.