Pedro S. Pereira

"Innovation Strategist ✦ Director, Innovation Adoption and Impact, SAP EMEA South ✦ Venture Partner, SAP.iO ✦ Board Member, Repple.com ✦ Startup Mentor, AI/IoT/Blockchain ✦ MIT Certified ✦ Public Speaker

Pedro Pereira is a high-tech executive and entrepreneur with successful track records as a corporate innovator and new business development leader, investor, and advisor for startups. About 20 years of international experience serving as director of innovation strategy and digital transformation at SAP EMEA South, advisory board member, non-executive director at Repple.com – the next generation competency checks platform. Formerly Vice President at Corporater Middle East operations, and formerly Market and Business Intelligence Manager at Marco Consulting. Founded from the ground up STEX, an Enterprise Performance Management software distribution company, Molécula Digital, a digital marketing bureau and the Middle East operations for Corporater Inc.

Public speaker as subject matter expert in smart city, AI and blockchain conferences, host of the AI Camp at UAE Ministry of State for Artificial Intelligence, chapter lead for SingularityU Dubai, jury for MEED Gulf Capital SME Awards and Dubai 10X, guest professor for IE Business School, SP Jain and others. Startup accelerators mentor with SAP.iO, Techstars and In5.

Born and graduated in Brazil with executive education in the United States from MIT Sloan, Singularity University, and University of La Verne.

Hard-working ethics, results-oriented, focused on leading teams with creativity throughout an innovative mindset to achieve positive impact.

Main Competencies:
• Invest/accelerate startup ventures and intrapreneurship initiatives
• Accelerate time-to-market, reduce technical risks, engage product development teams, assure quality and UX, customer facing high-tech business development and sales.
• Expert in co-creation and new business model generation leveraging exponential technologies including IoT, Blockchain, Big Data, Advanced Analytics, Artificial Intelligent & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing.
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