Throughout his career, João has honed and established the tools & experience necessary to connect disruptive technology, people, and business. Bridging these three pillars of resources, he was able to foster success by providing strong leadership and developing the opportunity for innovation to thrive.This philosophy resulted in João’s deep involvement with several entrepreneurial ventures — building successful businesses in C and D level roles, supporting the launch of more than 20 software products into the market and development of innovation teams and cultures within large organizations.More recently, his focus has been on the development of entrepreneurial ventures in the field of Artificial Intelligence applied to process automation and robotization in the field of Smart Cities, Smart Content, Robot Process Automation and IoT.João is also involved in developing business strategies to be better-aligned business goals, funding needs and grow, supporting several successful fundraising processes with key investors such as TechStars and EU Funding.Exploring the nexus between Technology and People, Joao is passionate about data and how it can be as a proxy to develop a better and fairer society.In addition to being a business leader, João is also a career mentor, blogger, traveller, yogi, musician and avid book reader. Overall, he strives to be surrounded by talented, creative and sceptical people who are not comfortable in leaving the world as it is.