Patrick Hallqvist

Mr. Patrick Hallqvist is a Principal at Aurora Ventures LLC.
In 1991, he founded Manser International, a Brazilian management Services Company specialized in trade.
He specialized in promotion, logistics, export funding, and trade negotiations.
In 1995, he became Managing Director of Divina Fruit Company, a company that represented Brazilian grape producers locally and internationally.
He participated in the board of IBRAF, the Brazilian Institute of Fruit and was responsible for the international promotion budget for this entity.
During the next years Mr Hallqvist participated avidly in diverse fruit related companies such as Produce Marketing, a marketing company and he also founded Qualyfruit a boutique shop & restaurant related to fruits with annual sales over US$ 3M.
After relocating to the US in 2000, he became manager for Innova Health International.
He was running the market-intelligence department for business development to and from Brazil for medical and dental products.
In 2004 Innova participated in the acquisition of a Dental Implant manufacturing plant, which he is running until today.
He serves on the board of CVD Dentus and Bionnovation Biomedical.
Mr. Hallqvist graduated from Pontificia Universidade Catolica de São Paulo.