Prof. Newton C. Frateschi is the Executive Director of the Inova-UNICAMP: Unicamp Innovation Agency. He was the director of the "Gleb Wataghin" Physics Institute (IFGW), University of Campinas – UNICAMP - Brazil from 2014 to 2017; the deputy director of this institute from 2010 to 2014. He was the director of the Center for Semiconductor Components and Nanotechnologies – UNICAMP from 2005 to 2010. From 2001 to 2003, he worked as a senior optoelectronic designer at T-Networks Inc., Pennsylvania, USA, in the advanced photonic device technology group. He obtained his Master’s and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and his bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Physics from the IFGW - UNICAMP. He is a Brazilian National Research and Development Council (CNPq – Brasil) research fellow leading the device Research Laboratory (LPD – IFGW - UNICAMP) and the author and coauthor of over 100 scientific papers and several international patents primarily in the areas of optoelectronics and photonics.