Profile
Headquartered in Brazil, MBD provides technology commercialisation, new venture creation and start up services including management consulting and interim management to deliver excellence in business strategy and operations. Our focus is on micro, nano and biotechnologies enabling competitive advantage in a wide range of sectors from organic farming to semiconductors.
MBD is about intelligent networking for business, disruptive technological solutions and total customer satisfaction. Since 2002 we have helped companies, governments and organisations to:
- turn good ideas into valuable products and new market opportunities
- make existing products and services more competitive or natural
- enter new markets or evaluate and adopt emerging technologies
- organise professional training, sales and strategic planning
- assess and analyse international markets and high tech industries
- establish commercial presence in Brazil and Latin America
- partner for international technical or commercial advantage
- raise finance and early stage funding in Brazil and Europe
MBD offers services in international trade, alternative health technologies, information technology and hardware & software customised solutions through a network of associates and strategic partners worldwide that bring synergistic solutions.
Example areas where we have been or are involved with include high tech instrumentation, organic and natural products, functional foods, medical thermography, organic farming, wireless Internet solutions, web services for transport & logistics, industrial & domestic advanced water filtering, and e-shop automation.
MBD was founded by Dr Gerson Machado in Belo Horizonte MG Brazil in 2002 and currently has associates in Brazil, Germany, UK and USA. We have a strategic alliance with TFI of Cambridge UK (http://www.tfi-ltd.co.uk), Mesopartner of Germany (http://www.mesopartner.de) and TechSteel of Belo Horizonte Brazil (http://www.techsteel.com.br). We have a strong track record in providing accelerated cooperation among distributed research, development and manufacturing facilities worldwide as well as in start-up company creation in Brazil and Europe for high tech and international trade opportunities, using our triple-helix method.
We also represent in Latin America:
Intelligent Micro Patterning of Florida USA (http://www.intelligentmp.com): maskless photolithography technology for MicroElectroMechanical (MEMS) Devices, High Density Packaging, Multi-Chip Modules (MCMs), Fiber Optic and DWDM Components, Optoelectronic Devices, Failure Analysis, Microfluidic and BioMEMS Structures, and Thin Film Processing Applications;
FairField Sensors of Manchester UK (http://www.farfield-sensors.com): Structurally Informed Drug Discovery, Science of Soft Surfaces, Molecular Interaction Analysis. Farfield also has a revolutionary new platform technology for protein characterisation. This new optical analysis technique encompassed in the AnaLight® instrumentation range will enable researchers to make significant advances in the understanding of the mechanisms of disease and analysis of molecular functionality for a number of application areas. We offer the ability to continuously monitor the kinetics of protein interactions and to have the sensitivity to detect for example the very early stages of aggregation. The technique offers an extra dimension by employing two polarisations (i.e. measurement of density at the chip surface) that is not available with other optical techniques. Real time measurements of film thickness and density have been obtained using the method with a film thickness resolution of 0.1Å and densities of less than picogrammes per millimetre squared.
We also research the use of advanced thermal infrared imaging technology (http://www.termomed.com) together with nutritional supplementation and propotherapy (using ultra green baccharis dracunculifolia propolis from Minas Gerais Brazil) to help preempt degenerative diseases and particularly breast cancer.
We have formal and informal associations with various other companies in IT, wireless, advanced water filtering for clinics, businesses and residences, control, medical and semiconductor instrumentation, natural health and natural pharmaceutical products worldwide. Please consult with us about your business or R&D needs.
KEY ASSOCIATES
Dr Gerson Machado PhD, founder. Gerson is an entrepreneur with wide experience in bridging emerging technologies with emerging markets. He has had senior positions with Ericsson (optical communications) and Motorola (IP-based wireless communication systems) world-wide as well as with consulting companies (TFI, Cambridge) and start-ups (Oxtek, Netdespatch, Invisix, Hepta Systems, NatSnack, Cenamps, Bioland Jaiba). He was the founder CEO of Cenamps, a Centre of Excellence for Nanotechnology, Microsystems and Photonics in the UK and is Chairman of NatSnack, a natural foods company. Gerson is non-executive director of Netdespatch and Bioland Jaiba. His current interests include micro and nanotechnology, energy medicine and instrumentation, technology management, management consulting and interim management, languages, organic farming and alternative health care, particularly with bee products. Gerson has organised many international conferences and presented invited management and technical lectures in companies and universities in five continents. He is the editor of the authoritative text on ultra low power technology "Low-power HF microelectronics: a unified approach", IEE, London, 1996. Gerson is affiliated to the IEEE and has publications in the fields of high tech business, biomedical and clinical engineering, technology transfer and planning, strategy and ultra low-power VLSI circuit design. He earned his BSc and MSc degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais State (UFMG), Brazil, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Imperial College, UK for contributions to ultra low power analogue and mixed-signal microelectronics design, characterisation and modelling. He is a bee keeper in Brazil and produces natural green propolis at Fazenda Verdente (http://www.verdente.com).
Dra Ellen Silveira M.D. PhD
Dra Silveira is a gerontologist specialised in natural and non-invasive diagnostic and treatment of degenerative diseases, with a strong interest in nutrition, medical thermography and biofeedback for energy medicine, as well as in integrative and functional medicine.
Dra Dalva Machado M.D. MSc
Dra Machado is a clinical neurologist with an interest in emerging technologies including sleep biofeedback analysis.
Dr Malcolm Wilkinson PhD
Dr Wilkinson is a physicist and Managing Director of TFI UK, a technology commercialisation and exploitation company with strong focus on the application of micro and nano technologies in medical and telecommunication markets worldwide.
Mr Roberto Coelho
Roberto brings a wealth of finance experience with previous positions managing agricultural businesses within Brazil and from running RC Ltda, his own company providing accountancy services to large trade and technology customers. Roberto serves as Financial controller at MBD.
Mr Henry OTani
Henry is Chairman and Founder of Altec consulting in the UK and is a strategic partner in Wireless Local Area Networks and high gain antennae technology.
Dr Jorg Meyer-Stammer PhD
Dr Meyer-Stammer is a political scientist with an exceptional world-wide track record in conceiving and delivering programmes for local economic development working with companies and governments. He is the founding partner of Mesopartner in Germany and world-wide known for his work on cluster and value chain promotion and systemic competitiveness analysis.
Dra Silene Seibel PhD
Dra Seibel brings a rich strategic and operational lean-manufacturing background having worked for some of the largest industrial groups in Brazil and Germany. She specialises in local economic development and lean manufacture.
Mr Chris Osbourne
Chris is the founder of a number of technology and health startups as well as the operations director for The SpecTech manufacturing group in France. His focus is international operations.
Mr F. Mark Modzelewski
Mark has been involved with various nanotechnology companies including being a VC, being Managing Director of Lux Research in the USA and co-founder of the NanoBusiness Alliance, specialising in industrial and commercial applications of nanotechnologies and international strategy and policy.
Mr Tim Harper
Tim is the founder of Cientifica, a leading European nanotechnology consultancy focused on industrial applications of nanotechnology and on information services related to nanotechnology.
Dr Eustaquio Galvao PhD
Dr Galvao is a physicist and director of Natur, also a co-founder of Bioland Jaiba, with an interest in international trade and organic agriculture. He is currently stationed in the USA.
Dr Antonio Martins M.D.
Dr Martins is a consultant sports medicine and paediatrician based in Austria, with a wealth of research into biodynamic fruit production and commercialisation of organic produce, including his world-famous Dr Martins organic Coconut Drink, the first organic isotonic drink available worldwide.
Mrs Becky Clark
Becky is CEO and co-founder of Netdespatch UK and a worldwide authority on web services for logistics and transport.
Mr Vladimir Macedo
Vladimir is director and founder of Techsteel (http://www.techsteel.com.br) and focuses on bespoke control systems solutions for various industries as well as biomedical and associated communication systems.
Mission
To accelerate optimal adoption of disruptive or natural technological solutions to commercial problems, to create new ventures and management techniques that deliver excellence and quality in business strategy and operations. Our focus is on micro, nano and biotechnologies enabling competitive advantage in a wide range of sectors from organic farming to semiconductors, medical instrumentation and telecommunications. MBD is about intelligent networking for business and trade.
We abide by the following code of ethics from our association with the IEEE (http://www.ieee.org):
1. We accept responsibility in making technological decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the public, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment;
2. We avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest whenever possible, and we disclose them to affected parties when they do exist;
3. We are honest and realistic in stating claims or estimates based on available data;
4. We reject bribery in all its forms;
5. We seek to improve the understanding of technology, its appropriate application, and potential consequences;
6. We seek to maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake technological tasks for others only if qualified by training or experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations;
7. We aim to seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct errors, and to credit properly the contributions of others;
8. We aim to treat fairly all persons regardless of such factors as race, religion, gender, disability, age, or national origin;
9. We avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious action;
10. We assist colleagues and co-workers in their professional development and support them in following this code of ethics.
Contact Information
Address:
Machado Business Development - MBD
Desenvolvimento de negocios, tecnologia e comercio
Av. do Contorno, 6594 – 16º e 17º andares - Savassi
Belo Horizonte MG
30110-044
BR
Phone Number:
+55 (31) 3555 3312
Fax Number:
+55 (31) 3555 3399
E-Mail Address:
info @ machadobd.com
