Rogerio Candeias, PhD

Meet Rogerio Candeias, a seasoned tech executive with over 12 years of experience building and growing technology products. With a background in computational biology, Rogerio has held leadership positions at various startups, including Project Vault, Hummingbird Technologies, and Loyalive. He has also served as Chief Technology Officer in Residence at Founders Factory Ltd and as Engineering Director at BCG Digital Ventures.

Rogerio has a proven track record of developing ideas and finding product/market fit, growing products into $500M valuations, and building world-class engineering teams of at least 50 people. He has recruited over 100 engineers and looks for diversity of thought, passion, capacity for learning, creativity, team fit, and no-ego people in his hires.

Rogerio's unique views on the world include buzzwords being mostly ignored, and the need for a balance between extreme positions. He dislikes cookie-cutter solutions and finds that too much or too little process hinders success. He also believes that great leaders come in many shapes and forms, with only a few positive traits distinguishing them from bad leaders.

Rogerio studied Biochemistry and Biochemical Engineering at Universidade de Coimbra, completed Post-Graduation in Bioinformatics at University of Lisbon, and earned his PhD in Computational Biology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He also spent time as a Visiting PhD Student in Computational Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

If you want to pick Rogerio's brain about technology or discuss the future, he is always up for a frank conversation.