What Happened?
Mountain View, CA-based Veniam Appointed Joao Barros as Chief Executive Officer
About the Company
Veniam turns vehicles into WiFi hotspots.
About the Person
João Barros is Founder and CEO of Veniam'Works, Inc. and Professor Catedrático (on leave) of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Porto, Portugal. He was Founding Director of Instituto de Telecomunicações in Porto, which grew from 8 to 100 researchers during his six-year tenure. Joao Barros was also a Fulbright scholar twice and has held visiting appointments at MIT, Stanford, Cornell and Carnegie Mellon. He regularly teaches at the Porto Business School and serves on the board of Streambolico, a WiFi multicast company he co-founded. João is fluent in Portuguese, German, English, French and Spanish. He received his undergraduate education in ECE from the Universidade do Porto (UP), Portugal and Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany, a performing arts degree in flute from the Music Conservatory of Porto, and the Ph.D. degree in EE and IT from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Germany.
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