Damien BERTRAND is Senior Business Developer in Life Sciences at Sopartec, the technology transfer and investment company from UCLouvain, in Belgium.

He holds a doctorate in Sciences and additional university certificates in innovation and business management. He cumulates more than 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry including large corporations as well as startup companies, starting in technical roles to evolve progressively towards partnerships and business management. Through this pathway, he developed a broad and diversified professional network in med-tech and biopharmaceutical industries worldwide; he also elaborated a broad overview over the leading tendencies and needs of the life science sector, including the growing role of digital technologies and artificial intelligence.

In his daily work, Damien Bertrand shapes up valorisation strategies on the research results issued from the Life Science sector at UCLouvain, that he materializes through licenses with established market players or through spinoff companies.