PRONISH - Key Persons
Altug Tosun is a veteran professional with 18 years of multi-sectoral experience in business development, project management, and grant scheme monitoring in EU funded grant scheme and technical assistance projects in the field of regional and rural development, sustainable development, social & civil society dialogue. He is the managing director of Pronish Consultancy since 2014, focusing on business development, expanding the portfolio of consultancy services offered and managing the financial and administration of Pronish. He is also the owner and Managing Partner of the private event space - Nish Lounge, for which he manages and leads the business development and marketing activities. As a Senior Non-Key Grant Monitoring Expert, he has monitored more than 500 grant projects in multiple provinces of Turkey. He holds BS degree in Business Administration Specialized in Marketing from Eskişehir Anadolu University.
He has solid experience and knowledge in project cycle management, grant monitoring in the project provinces and designing & delivery of PCM and Grant Training and Workshops - Project Proposal Preparation for EU Funds.
Furthermore, he has well-established networks and communication with social partners, business NGOs and SMEs to successfully fulfil the thematic verification tasks, reviewing the procurement project budgets and provide input for the elaboration of a comprehensive report as part of his extensive grant and monitoring experience. Altug's extensive experience enables him to review the key performance indicators and fulfil the requirements of monitoring activities to provide the most beneficial inputs to the projects via thematic controls, evaluation reports and risk analysis.
İlhami Günay Akdoğan is an accomplished professional with unique blend of business and technical experience in research, product development, R&D operation management and business development in international setting. He is currently working as senior consultant at Pronish, specializing in Research & Development (R&D) and Innovation Management with 20 years of experience in research & development in High-Tech fields. He previously had leadership roles in R&D organizations of Global leading Medical Technology companies, e.g., Medtronic. He worked as senior researcher at TUBITAK BİLGEM - Informatics and Information Security Research Center. In addition, he has involved in cutting-edge technology R&D at Bilkent University - Nanotechnology Research Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Rutgers University. Günay holds two M.Sc. degrees in Materials & Ceramics Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering from Rutgers University, NJ, USA. He has a BS degree in Physics from Middle East Technical University, Ankara.
He has solid experience with different design suite software in 3D designing, 3D modeling, analyzing and optimizing of electromagnetic components, systems, Rapid prototyping and 3D printing of the conceptual medical devices and their respective parts. In addition, he worked on 3D anatomical modeling generated from anonymous real patients` imaging data to better understand the anatomical challenges for the designed prototypes of the innovative medical devices, and create realistic medical training kits (organ models & flow models) for existing and new products to train healthcare professionals. During his work, he also initiated a collaboration with IEEE P3333.2 Working Group (IEEE-SA Standards Projects in Medical 3D Printed & Virtual Reality Models) and a funded EU Erasmus Plus project on 3D printed & virtual reality models focusing on urological procedures.
He specializes on new product development leadership utilizing various innovation approaches to identify feasible and profitable solutions based on the identified unmet needs. He has an immense experience in engaging stakeholders, promoting Innovation & R&D Branding as marketing, communication, event organization for PR activities. He was embedded advocate for Medtronic Asian Healthcare Innovation Competition to promote the local innovation in APAC region and was People`s Choice Award Winner in 2017 when working for Medtronic. In addition, he also provided mentorship for entrepreneurs in EMEA Emerging Markets region, for example, he was a mentor and participant at Uganda Cam-Tech Global Surgical Hack-a-ton where he worked closely with local entrepreneurs to help for creating solid business cases to find potential investors at local, regional and global level.