About Giovanni Nisato
Giovanni Nisato, PhD, PMP, is a Basel-based innovation consultant and Managing Director of Innovation Horizons GmbH. His work focuses on collaborative innovation, trusted data, technology strategy, ecosystem facilitation and organizational transformation.
He works at the intersection of science, technology, data and collaboration, helping expert communities, public-private partnerships and international consortia align around shared objectives and actionable outcomes.
Current roles and activities
- Managing Director, Innovation Horizons GmbH.
- Consultant and project manager with the Pistoia Alliance, including FAIR implementation and Pharma General Ontology activities.
- Affiliate Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management.
- Expert for Innosuisse and the European Commission.
- Co-founder and President of Health Hacking Lab.
Career journey
Giovanni's career spans soft-matter physics, polymer science, flexible OLEDs, printed and organic electronics, digital health, FAIR data and cross-company innovation programs.
Before founding Innovation Horizons, he held senior technology and business-development roles at CSEM and earlier research and project-leadership roles at Philips Research. He has contributed to European collaborative programs, industry roadmaps, standards activities and pre-competitive communities.
Working style
A recurring theme across his work is helping diverse stakeholders make progress when complexity is high and no single organization can solve the challenge alone.
This often involves:
- facilitating expert communities;
- translating technical complexity into actionable decision frameworks;
- building shared language and shared scope;
- supporting governance and adoption;
- connecting technology, business value and societal purpose.
Education and credentials
- PhD in Physics, University of Strasbourg.
- Project Management Professional (PMP®).
- Strategic Doing Practitioner.
- Multilingual working background across English, French, Italian, German and Dutch.