Dimitris Kalofonos, Ph.D.

Hands-on tech executive combining strong Business, Strategy, Product, Technical and Leadership skills. Proven track record building and launching innovative cloud-enabled IoT and multi-platform (mobile, web, connected car, cloud components) B2B and B2C products, and leading large inter-disciplinary teams, for over 25 years at Sensata, Philips, HERE Technologies, Nokia, Verizon. My passion for innovation goes back early in my career as a researcher working at MIT and corporate research organizations. Inventor of 15 granted and several pending patent applications. Author of more than 30 publications in peer-reviewed Journals and Conferences. An entrepreneur, having founded early-stage Omnielectron Technologies and co-founded BioNevia Pharmaceuticals, a biotech startup with more than $20 million in funding and one asset that completed Phase II clinical development. Key skills and technologies: Internet of Things (IoT), cloud software services, big data analytics, machine learning, Electric Vehicles, (EV), mobile apps, location-based services, smart spaces, sensor networks, strategy, product management, software engineering, product development, agile methodologies, digital transformation, research and innovation, biotech, entrepreneurship.