José Guerreiro de Sousa has a BSc in Electrotechnical Engineering and Computers from IST (Portugal) and an MBA from UCP (Portugal). From 1986 to 1990, he was a researcher at INESC and Assistant Professor at ISEG (Portugal). Besides the scout of opportunities, José also follows the sourcing of entrepreneurial projects from major universities and research institutes that feed the pipeline of ISTART-I seed fund, leveraging his first professional experience as researcher at INESC, a leading portuguese research institute. José has been with ESV since late 2004.