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Duarte Nuno Ferreira Pires is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in business development, strategy consulting, and leadership. He holds an MBA from Bond University and a Marketing Diploma from the Institute of Marketing Management. As a skilled engineer and entrepreneur, Duarte has worked in various industries, including oil refining, edible oil, and biotechnology. He has also served as a board member for several companies, including Oilstock Traders and NWK. Duarte is proficient in multiple languages, including English, Portuguese, and Afrikaans. He is based in Carlsbad, California, and has a strong professional network in the US and South Africa.

Experience

    • Co-founder, Chief Executive Business Development (2006-2018) & Board Memb...
      • May 2006 - Present

      Altis is a regenerative medicine company focused on developing, & bringing to market, new biomaterials & regenerative biological products. The company’s current products and product candidates are based on proprietary platform technologies that combine specific growth factors with novel s...

    • Founder, Chief Executive, & Board Member
      • May 2001 - Present

      Corporate Advisory, Management Consulting, Strategy Consulting, Turnaround/business rescue specialistsThe managing partners at QBeta are serial entrepreneurs who have experience in having founded, managed, and sold their own industrial, high-tech and/or financial services businesses. QBeta consul...

  • ILKB San Diego
    • Greater San Diego Area
    • Founder & Chief Executive at ILKB San Diego (42LEAN)
      • Jan 2017 - Present
      • Greater San Diego Area

      Founder of 42LEAN, and evolutionary offering in the traditional health & fitness space. 42LEAN is a scalable, easy to deploy, health & fitness platform that delivers:(L) long lasting healthy Lifestyle coaching, (E) results driven Exercise programming, (A) Accountability coaching to guaran...

    • Non-Executive Member of Board of Directors - LES SA
      • 2008 - 2014

      The Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) is an association of 32 national and regional societies, each composed of men and women who have an interest in the transfer of technology, or licensing of intellectual property rights - from technical know how and patented inventions to softw...

    • New Technology Funding/Business Consulting & Business Rescue Consultant
      • 2006 - 2014

      Established in 1940, the IDC is the leading national development finance institution in Southern Africa, set up to promote economic growth and industrial development. The IDC's primary objectives are to contribute to the creation of balanced, sustainable economic growth in South Africa and o...

    • Co-Founder & Chief Executive - EXIT
      • May 2003 - Apr 2006

      InveSME provides short and medium term business finance to small and medium business enterprises (SME’s)InveSME was established specifically to address the problems facing SME’s seeking business finance from traditional lenders. Some SME's find it almost impossible to raise finance from the l...

  • Oilstock Traders (Pty) Ltd
    • Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Chief Business Development & Co-founder - EXIT
      • May 2000 - Apr 2001
      • Johannesburg, South Africa

      Founded Oilstock Traders with an innovative business model focused on providing contract packing services in the edible oil industry vs. traditional model of buying, packing and selling bottled edible oil, thereby opening up vertical integration possibilities to non-traditional retail/wholesale c...

  • Helios Oil Refinery Pty Ltd
    • Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Founder & CEO - EXIT
      • Jun 1997 - May 2000
      • Johannesburg, South Africa

      South Africa's most modern OIL REFINERY. Developed the company's business plan, and raised funding to build South Africa's most modern, fully automated edible oil refinery. Built and commissioned refinery, providing edible oil refining services to crude oil manufacturers and edible oi...

    • United Kingdom
    • Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Commercial Projects Manager
      • May 1995 - Jun 1997

      New business identification & development, projects team leader, developing commercial business plans & strategies, contract negotiations, strategic direction, developing & implementing marketing strategies, and overall sector responsibility

    • ASU Project Manager
      • Jul 1993 - May 1995

      Process design & trouble-shooting, Project planning & management, ASU Plant optimisation, Cost reduction strategies, Production & Distribution cost analysis, and Production maximisation.

    • Engineer
      • Jul 1991 - Jul 1993

Education

  • 1998 - 2000
    Bond University
  • 1994 - 1996
    Institute of Marketing Management
  • 1990 - 1993
    University of Johannesburg
  • 1985 - 1989
    John Orr Technical High school
  • 1979 - 1985
    I H Harris Primary School

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Industry Focus. “Biotechnology”

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