Profile: Daniel Pagliano, ’00, USA
March 2008
Eight years after…
In the year 2000 and before his fellowship, Daniel Pagliano was a scientist in the Biotechnology Unit of the National Institute of Agriculture Research in
During his Fellowship visit in the
As a kind of revelation, Pagliano understood that there was a need of re-engineering alliances and resources in
Just one year after his fellowship he made some personal and professional changes. He shifted to the private sector to co-found
He started there a twin track approach, consisting of attracting companies to this new platform and starting to grow his own companies, and as he said, “to get a taste of my own medicine.” At three years post-fellowship, he started Quiniman (www.quiniman.com), a company that produces high merit bovine embryos, and after five years, he started a biotechnology and blueberries producing platform, Nidetec Group (www.nidetec.com), with an integrated business model that includes culturing in vitro plants to exporting fruits in counter-season to the northern hemisphere.
Nowadays he is also the CEO of Scutia Group, a corporation which provides high-end project consulting and management services to the industry and agencies (www.scutia.com).
Pagliano has also found time to work with related foundations and associations to promote biotechnology in the region. He became a leader of REDBIO, a Latin American and Caribbean Plant Biotechnology Network, which is sponsored by FAO, and he was the first president of the REDBIO International Foundation, which is the largest private regional biotech capacity, with a membership of 535 biotechnology laboratories in 27 countries (www.redbio.org).
In the year 2002, he was the chairman of BIOLATINA 2002, the V Latin American Congress of Biotechnology, and was also elected president of the Latin American Federation of National Biotechnology Companies Association. He now serves as a member of the Board of Directors.
Pagliano is an invited speaker at global forums in biotechnology, as those organized by the Biotechnology Industry Organization in
He cooperates with the Eisenhower Fellowships as coordinator of the Uruguayan Nominating Committee for the Latin American Single Region Program. Daniel considers “the Eisenhower Experience,” as he describes his fellowship, a life milestone that initiates Fellows on a new awareness to explore novel perspectives and visions.