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Skilled over the past 20 years in Sales, Sales Management, Account Management, Team Leadership, and Strategic Planning. I have had the pleasure on working with and on some of the most iconic sporting venues known around the world. I continue to enjoy sharing those experiences with new and existing clients in order to promote best practice and customer engagement through innovative technology.

Joao Pronto is IT Professor at ESHTE – Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, the main Hospitality University in Portugal, since 1996. He teaches and research mainly the workflows of Hyper-personalization processes, Unified Communications, and tech innovations in the Hospitality Field, as In-Room entertainment innovation. His research in master’s degree, (2002) was about an Expert System (an Artificial Intelligence System) that provides to the Tourists a dashboard where they can choose thematic pics and videos, and the System reply to the Tourist, personalized tourist services based in the Tourist aims and behaviors. Now a days, we call to this approach hyper-personalization in tourism and hospitality. In the past 17 years, in the PhD studies, João Pronto his collaborating with some of the main Hotel Chains in Portugal. His main publications, and speech are: IGI Global Publication Book: Optimizing Digital Solutions for Hyper-Personalization in Tourism and Hospitality, 2022. Algarve Summit – Disrupt’22 – Hyper- Personalization in Hospitality, 2022. 7th Circle Conference – eServices and strategy in the Hospitality Industry: The Altis Hotels Business Case, 2010. Eyefortravel, The Empowerment of Internet 2.0 in Hospitality and Tourism, 2007. In www.turisver.pt writes opinion articles, in a monthly base, about tech applied to the Hospitality field.

I live between a fuzzy and a techie world!

I am focused on business, innovation and strategy management with over fifteen years of experience helping different kind of companies (from multinational to family-owned) and sectors such as new technologies, pharma, banking, trading and media & entertainment.

I am a graduate of Electronic Arts and Digital Design (URL & ESDI), a program for management development (ESADE), and an exchange program in Strategic Innovation and Cross-Cultural Management (HEC). He also holds a Master’s degree in International Business and Relations (ESEI Business School).

Balint Feher is a senior clinical research manager at Geistlich Pharma AG. He leads eClinical project at Geistlich, supporting the organization to redesign processes and transition to digital arena. He holds PharmD at Semmelweis University, Budapest and double MSc in computer science and biomedical engineering fields. He has 15+ years’ clinical and 5+ years’ IT expertise in pharma and medical devices industries. Balint’s passion lies in the intersection of clinical, regulatory and IT by leading projects where team can solve complex problems needed combined skillset also at project lead’s level.