João Borga
Agência Nacional de Inovação
João Mendes Borga graduated in Food Technology and Safety from Nova University Lisbon, in 2005, and is also a Master in Management and Business Administration from the University of Manchester, an MBA he finished in 2013 and after which he had the opportunity of engaging in a technology transfer by launching Spinn-offs in the British market.
He returned to Portugal during the peak of the crises period, motivated by the civic public service duty, and joined the Startup Lisbon team before launching the Center for Innovation Companies in Castelo Branco, which he managed for 3 years.
In 2016, he was nominated as the head for the Portuguese Nacional Incubator Network, an initiative that coordinates the efforts of 165 institutions that support about 2100 Startups, and was also a founding member of Startup Portugal, where he took on Chief Executive Officer duties, under the support initiatives to new entrepreneurship and implementation and monitoring projects of the national entrepreneurship strategy.
