Roy de Souza
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Kellogg Business School (M.B.A.)
- Entrepreneur
- writer
Roy de Souza | |
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| Born | 1970 (age 55–56) Nairobi, Kenya |
| Education | University of Oxford (M.S. in Engineering) Kellogg Business School (M.B.A.) |
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| Known for | Cancer research (AI Drug Discovery Per Patient) |
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| Children | 3 |
| Father | Fitz de Souza |
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Roy de Souza (born 1970) is a Kenyan-born tech entrepreneur and writer. He is the co-founder of technology company ZEDO and medical technology company BreakBio.[1][2] In 2022, he was a TEDx speaker.[3] In May 2023, he and his wife Aisha de Sequeira were honored by the American Cancer Society for de Souza's work in personalized medicine.[4]
De Souza earned a master's degree in engineering from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Kellogg Business School.[1]
Career
De Souza served as a strategy consultant at the COBA Group, a strategy consulting boutique based in the UK.[5][6] He also worked in product management for the Elon Musk-founded web software company Zip2.[7]
De Souza founded technology company ZEDO in 1999.[1][8] In 2006, he founded the company Zebo, an offshoot of ZEDO focused on allowing users to catalog personal possessions and shop for similar items.[9][10][11] De Souza launched online ad exchange ZINC India in 2011, which was originally ZEDO's ad exchange platform in India before becoming a separate company.[12][13][14] He served as the ZEDO's CEO and oversaw the company as it transitioned into a subsidiary of Discovery following its acquisition by Discovery, Inc. in 2021.[15][16][17]
In 2022, de Souza was a TEDx speaker, talking about vaccines to prevent cancer.[3]