Denis Guilhot

Innovation Project Manager

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

About

Extensive experience in EU-funded project management, originating in prototype research and development, technology due diligence and technology transfer across a range of Photonics, Physical science, Engineering and IoT areas, Nanotechnology and Graphene, Energy and Smart city, and which is complemented by a PhD in Laser Physics.

Experience

  • Innovation Project Manager at BMAT Music Innovators
    Aug 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

    Project manager for funded projects in the Innovation department.BMAT is a music innovation company with a mission to index all music usage and ownership data. We are experts in monitoring and reporting music globally across TVs, radios, venues and digital to help all different companies in the music industry better their data operations and help artists get paid for their plays. Every day we deliver 80 million identifications and 27 billion matches to CMOs, publishers, record labels, broadcasters and DSPs.

  • External Expert Evaluator at European Commission
    2015 - Present · 11 yrs 6 mos

    Expert Evaluator and/or Reviewer for various funding agencies including the European Commission, EIT Raw Materials, Cyprus' Research and Innovation Foundation, MadrI+D, SKVC, Poland's National Center for Research and Development, and projects such as MULTIPLY – International Mobility and Training Programme in Photonics for Experienced Researchers, LASHARE, and CONEX Plus.

  • Co-founder at ExploitDriver
    Mar 2019 - Dec 2023 · 4 yrs 10 mos

    Exploit Driver was born in 2019 with a two-folded objective: Improve the return on investment of EU-funded projects and facilitate the work of consortia in exploitation tasks. With extensive experience in many types of EU-funded projects, and specific business knowledge ranging from teaching to Venture Capital investor, the Exploit Driver team can make exploitation easier to consortia by teaching some specific business tools and applying them in a workgroup session, as well as organising roundtables with experts that improve the knowledge of the attendees and allow an increase in the return on investment of both the EU-funding and the workshops itself.

  • Senior expert @ Horizon Results Booster at META
    Jul 2020 - Jun 2023 · 3 yrs

    Business coaching to help EU funded projects with their exploitation strategy.

  • Senior EU project manager at Worldsensing
    Dec 2017 - Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Project manager for funded and internal projects in the Business Development / Innovation department. Trade secret manager in charge of the internal IP protocol. Member of the Diversity Team. Worldsensing's core expertise is in providing sensing and machine-to-machine technologies and services to specific industrial Internet of Things verticals, in particular Mining.