Angele Giuliano

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Angele Giuliano
Born30 January 1976 (1976-01-30) (age 48)
Hamrun, Malta
NationalityMaltese
Alma materUniversity of Malta
OccupationBusinesswoman

Angele Giuliano (born 30 January 1976) is a Maltese businesswoman and president of the Maltese Foundation for Women Entrepreneurs.[1] Giuliano has been CEO and managing director at AcrossLimits since 2001, as well as an expert evaluator for the European Commission and a European Innovation Council (EIC) ambassador. She is also a business angel engaged in mentoring start-ups and entrepreneurs in Malta and internationally.

Biography

Giuliano was born in Hamrun, the youngest of three sisters. After finishing her secondary education, she went on to study business and computing at the University of Malta.[2] She later read for a master's degree in Innovation and Creativity at the Edward de Bono for the Design and Development of Thinking. After graduating Giuliano was invited to become a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta, tutoring students on eCommerce, business and technology.

In 2001, Giuliano founded AcrossLimits Ltd, an SME providing services in the fields of consultancy, research and IT development, and project management. As CEO and managing director of the company, Giuliano has developed eHealth and eLearning applications, consulted for a number of large public and private organisations on business innovation and internationalisation, and contributed to policy documents and white papers for clients including the European Parliament. Additionally, Giuliano has developed and managed a number of research and innovation projects with an array of European partners, and provides professional online development courses under the TrainingMalta brand.

Giuliano has acted as an expert evaluator for the European Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, the Ministry of Education, University and Research (Italy), the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation and the Malta Council for Science and Technology. She has also continued to lecture at the University of Malta. Giuliano has published a number of papers on technology, most recently on entry-points into STEM fields for young people,[3] and contributed to books on technology and education.[4]

Besides her position at AcrossLimits, Giuliano is also a business angel at Go Beyond Investing and Rising Tide 1 Female Investment Group. In this role, she evaluates business pitches relating to start-ups and scale-ups for the European market.[5]

Giuliano is President of the Foundation for Women Entrepreneurs. In this role she has lobbied for better representation of women in the business world, particularly in Malta and in Europe. She has also acted as an expert and panelist for a number of panels on European women in business, and had strong links with the European Institute for Gender Equality.[2]

Giuliano has long been involved in business mentoring and giving advice to prospective entrepreneurs. She acts to encourage women to take up IT and enter into business, something which she has pursued as an Ambassador for the eSkills Malta Foundation,[6] as a rapporteur in European Commission workshops on women in IT[7] and through interviews in the press.[8]

Honours

Giuliano has received a number of honours in the business field. In 1998 she was the winner of the EuroMed Multimedia Award, heading a team of 15 people.[1] In 2009, she launched the SME Week in Brussels with the then-Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, Günter Verheugen. In 2018, she was the winner of the Malta Innovation Summit Award for the social enterprise iSmart.[9]

During the launch of Horizon Europe in Malta in February 2021, the Malta Council for Science and technology announced the winners of the Horizon 2020 Malta Awards. These awards are a recognition of the successful participation in research and innovation projects by a number of Maltese beneficiaries. AcrossLimits received the Best Impact on Health, Security or Smart Mobility Award for the project Bio2Excel Centre of Excellence for Computational Biomolecular Research. The company was also the recipient of the Best Promotion of STEM Award for the project ERA4STEM.[10][11]

Giuliano was appointed as a National Champion for the European Innovation Council in Malta, along with Professor André Xuereb, during its 2021 iteration, announced by the European Commission at an online event in March 2021. Giuliano has been a member of the EIC jury for the past three years and during the launch, she stated how proud she was that “the programme is continuing and becoming even more important in the next seven years”. Apart from praising the funding for the programme, which is budgeted at over €10 billion for the period 2021–2027, Giuliano remarked that “the EIC programme and accelerator offers so much more, with coaching, mentoring, and networking, to really become a movement for all European innovative companies”.[12]

In November 2021, Angele Giuliano was invited to become an EIC Ambassador in recognition of her influence in the European innovation ecosystem, where she also serves as a jury member.[13] The role of EIC ambassadors is to promote the EIC in the Member States as well as provide feedback on the programme. The full list of EIC Ambassadors was published at the EIC Summit on 25 November 2021.[14]

Personal life

Giuliano lives with her partner Antti Heikkilä and her son in Hamrun, Malta.

References

  1. ^ a b "Key Profiles". women.org.mt. 27 August 2018. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Angele Giuliano". European Institute for Gender Equality.
  3. ^ "Girvan C, Lammer L, Giuliano A Offering Multiple Entry-Points into STEM for Young People 2017, Robotics in Education. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 457. Springer".
  4. ^ ""angele giuliano" - Google Search". www.google.com.mt.
  5. ^ "The angels on entrepreneurs' shoulders". Euronews.
  6. ^ "Ambassadors". eskills.org.mt.
  7. ^ Kamberidou, Irene (2008). "The European Commission Shadowing Conference: "Move out of the shadow! Seize the opportunITy" (Training the Trainers-Educating the Educators. Education-Engagement-Retention: the gender factor in digital illiteracy in Greece, by Irene Kamberidou": 51–68 – via www.academia.edu. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ "More women needed in tech". Times of Malta.
  9. ^ "Maltese App to help students in their training nominated for The World Summit Awards". TVM.
  10. ^ "Horizon Europe launched in Malta". Times of Malta.
  11. ^ "PRESS RELEASE BY THE MINISTRY FOR RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND CO-ORDINATION OF THE POST-COVID-19 STRATEGY: Winners of the Horizon 2020 Malta Awards announced". www.gov.mt.
  12. ^ "National Champions in Malta appointed for new €10 billion European Commission innovation accelerator". whoswho.mt.
  13. ^ "EIC Ambassadors".
  14. ^ https://eicsummit21.eu/

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