January 2014

ALBELISSAResearch, Technology & Development Solutions

Albelissa’s Talent Network

� Albelissa has an in-house core team of Engineering Managers with over twenty years of experience in consumer goods and medical design.

� Albelissa’s worldwide engineering offices offer a ready network of global professionals with technical and scientific profiles to best meet the needs of our client’s conceptual or in-progress business projects.

� Albelissa helps our client evaluate the staffing economies and efficiencieson a project basis, designing the delivery process together for a seamlessand succesful integration of technical forces.

� We help the client build their internal team and in house capability, and alsoprovide a cost effective channel for offshore work. Albelissa has anexecution capability of up to 100,000 mhrs/yr leveraging its Hyderabad’s (IT & multi-discipline Engineering Team (India) and in the process of establishing a BPO and Engineering center in Bucharest, Romania.

� Albelissa’s direct relationships with contract manufacturers (consumer goods and medical, etc.) are also an extension of our reach as we have constant communications and updates from these industry players.

Albelissa’s Spectrum of Resources

� The level of service is widely customizable including, but not limited to:

o expert consultants– the right individuals with the specific skill set and knowledge of best technologies and practical applications

o project consultancy services – feasibility, optimization, troubleshooting studies, technology specifications, vendor interface

o project management – in all project phases (process, design, execution, startup), experienced leaders to coordinate domestic and global activities

o project engineers – professionals to manage daily activities in respective projectphases (project controls, cost and schedule engineers)

o engineering support – global engineering workforces on the ready to provide cost effective deliverables to meet your fast track schedules

o entire turn-key work packages involving mono and multidisciplinary engineering

� Our staffing solutions can be on a per project basis or we can operate as an extension of your in-house recruiting efforts

� Albelissa provides solutions for your staffing needs and engineering work loads

Components of Innovation

Stage-Gate Innovation Process

Innovation Process

Stage-Gate Applied to Companies & Albelissa’s Coverages

Consumer Goods Manufacturer

Consumer DurablesManufacturer

Industrial Product Manufacturer

8 Categories of Innovation

An Innovation that cannot be used by customers in mainstream markets – introduces new dimensions of performances

Disruptive

Application

Product

Process

Digital Cameras

Takes existing technologies into new markets to serve new purposes

Olivetti in ATMs

Improves established offering in markets,… performances, cost, usability, etc.

iPhone & Windows 7

Makes processes for existing offerings in established markets more efficient or effective

Dell online CustomOrdering

Experiential Modifications that improve the customers’ overall experience with established offering

Poste.it package tracking

Marketing Improvements to customer-touching processes, such as communications or transactions

Voice Recognition

Business Model

Changes the way you make money and the corresponding value proposition to customers

Google Web based apps

Capitalizes on changes that restructure an industry Banks Aggregation

Structural

RTD Services

� Let latent needs emerge (needs analysis)

� Provide technological bundling

� Tech selection & tech transfer

� Wing to wing R&D solutions

� Technology procurement

� Technological scouting

� Talent scouting

� R&D outsource

� Patent review

RTD Integration and Support

� Act as RTD outsource partner:o Extension/integration of WH R&D facilities and infrastructureo Flexible staffing of RTD groupso Selected and targeted applied research specialists to be allocated

on identified development tasks/programs

� RTD Fund raising:o Participation to EU projectso Proposals preparationo Submissiono Consortium set up

RTD Domains & Solutions� Material and surface functionalization:

o Nanotechnologieso Hard Coatingso Polymers functionalizationo Flat surfaces- continuous processo 3D shaped surfaces- batch processo Vacuum treatmento Atmospheric pressure treatmento Plasma / sol-gel / thermal treatmento Enhancing wear and scratch resistanceo Ballistic propertieso Provide chemical inertnesso Adhesion control (hydro-oil-physic repellence)o Surface self cleaning/anti-fingerprinto Appearance (color)o Electrical and thermal properties (insulation/conducting layers)o Biocompatibilityo Encapsulation of substrate

Eco-design perspettive

� Systemic approach targeted to define:o Functional performanceo Cost effectivenesso Environmental sustainability

� Results reached will be provide:o RTD on materials, products and processeso Life Cycle Costingo Life cycle assessment ISO 14040