Your Partners
Izar’s founder and managing partner, Maria Cristina Pasi, operates directly as a project leader and coordinates a team of external specialists who partner up with Izar in the context of an international network.
A doctor in Chemistry from the University of Pavia, Italy, Maria Cristina Pasi holds a Master of Science in Organic Photochemistry from the University of Kent, Canterbury, England, a Master in Innovation Management from the Business School of Il-Sole-24ORE, Milano, Italy, and a Diploma in International and Financial Management for Business from the Business School of Merck, Darmstadt, Germany, as well as a number of specialist certificates in specific industry sectors.
With more than twenty years of international experience in the chemical industry, she is highly skilled in designing and implementing development strategies in sectors with high-tech content, such as Specialty Chemicals and Life Science Chemicals.
Multiple assignments in Sales and Marketing, Divisional Management and General Management, gave her a chance to build up valuable hands-on skills in co- branding, co-development, M&A, cross-fertilization and technology transfer.
Her deep knowledge of product development brought her from initial laboratory jobs to Project Management and Product Development assignments, as well as management positions in R&D and in Innovation Technology.
She has held important institutional roles as a member of the UNI Commission of Colorimetry and the Eco-sustainability task force in CEPE.
As an active member of several European projects within the Horizon 2020 program, she cooperates with the European Commission on IPR matters and is part of a group of independent specialists of the European Union.
She was among the founders of the Procoat Consortium of the Politecnico di Torino and presently is still involved in training programs, in both academic and corporate courses.