Spiros Tzavalas PhD

Supporting Corporate Innovation Strategy by: • Leading complex & multi-disciplinary projects • Driving scale-up & revenue growth • Increasing performance of the different innovation processes • Identifying of new search fields • Scouting new business opportunities • Sharing expertise on innovation management • Actively training specific courses in the Innovation Academy

• Managing the portfolio throughout the product´s life cycle • Selling & buying support, product launching • Product positioning, business model and value proposition • Defining differentiators, product strategy and pricing • Ownership of Gate model for product development projects e.g. e-mobility • Monitoring the global market, identifying white spots, coordinating business development • Training and cooperating with all functions • Representing the group at trade shows and industry associations

• Demonstrating technical and scientific proficiency and leadership • Supporting strategic technology direction & maintaining awareness of state-of-art technology • Consulting management and customers • Generating value and ensuring customer satisfaction • Continuous Improvement of processes & tools • Mentoring, coaching, sharing best practices • Project management, technology and product development, technology transfer • Patent monitoring and IP strategy • Risk management

• Project Management (Product Development, Mentoring PMs, BU-Collaborations) • Improving Productivity & Efficiency • Building up: material expertise & testing laboratory • Cultivating Health and Safety mentality • Responsible for patent surveillance

• Project Management (Technology Development, Prestudies, University Collaborations) • Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Project Team Management • Consulting/Developing new Employees • Supervision of Master Students and Interns • Responsible for patent surveillance, IP profiles

• Insulation Material Formulation and Characterization • Internal/external networking and collaborations • Actively collaborating with partners worldwide (Europe, US, China, S. Africa)

• Studies on the functionalization/solubilisation of carbon nanotubes

Dissertation Title: “Spectroscopic Characterization of Nanocomposites”. Research Advisor: Dr. Vasilis G. Gregoriou

Dissertation Title: “Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocomposite Polymeric Materials with Aluminum-Silicate Clays and Carbon Nanotubes”. Research Advisor: Dr. Vasilis G. Gregoriou

Dissertation Title: “Induction of Sialic Acid in Proteins”. Research Advisor: Prof. Theodoros Tsegenidis

Undergraduate research on the: “Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis of Fragments of Hirudin”. Research Advisor: Prof. Dimitrios Gatos