Paulo Carvao
Investment Committee Member and Limited Partner @Chestnut Street Ventures An Alumni Ventures Fund
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WORK HISTORY
Investment Committee Member and Limited Partner @Chestnut Street Ventures An Alumni Ventures Fund
New York, NY, US
Venture Capital deal flow sourcing and investment selection at venture capital firm leveraging the University of Pennsylvania alumni network, alongside well-known VC firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Greylock Partners, First Round, and Thrive Capital.
EDUCATION
Instituto Militar de Engenharia
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
IAG, Marketing
The Wharton School
Executive Education, Finance
The Wharton School
Executive Education, Human Resources
SKILLS
ABOUT PAULO CARVAO
Paulo Carvão is a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He focuses on the complexities of AI regulation in the United States, to balance rapid technological innovation and their societal impacts. He is an accomplished Global Technology Executive with a track record of leading large businesses at IBM, where he was a senior leadership team member until 2022. During his three-decade tenure at IBM, he led organizations focused on assisting clients with information technology infrastructure and digital transformation initiatives, leveraging a portfolio of hardware, software, and services offerings. Central to these efforts were the transition to cloud infrastructure and the integration of artificial intelligence into business processes. Since leaving IBM, he has served as a strategic advisor for technology and go-to-market issues, as well as a venture capital investor and board advisor. He serves on the advisory boards of technology startups, including Orby.co (neurotechnology and AI for rehabilitation and pain management) and Skills.tech (a hyper-personalized generative AI enterprise education platform). During his 2023 social impact fellowship at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, Paulo focused on the intersection of technology and democracy, and on entrepreneurship as a vehicle for social mobility. He was also a Fellow at the Harvard Safra Center for Ethics and an advisor to the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, concentrating on Artificial Intelligence. Passionate about mentoring current and future leaders, he currently mentors at the Harvard Innovation Labs, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology PKG Center, and Harvard Winthrop House where he is a Resident Scholar. Additionally, he is the inaugural Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics’ GovLab. Specialties: P&L Oversight Organizational Leadership Technology Partnerships Revenue Growth Strategies Cloud AI Digital Transformation Entrepreneurship
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