Simão Soares is an engineer seduced by the enormous transformational potential in the Industrial Biotechnology world. He holds a MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Minho, postgraduate in management from NOVA School of Business and Economics and trained in Blue Ocean Strategy at INSEAD. Simão was a visiting researcher at the Technical University of Denmark, in the integration of omics data with genome scale models, and also collaborated with the University of Minho in the fields of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, with published work in computational biology top ranked journals.