The people behind Coalex

About ten years in AI engineering. As Senior Engineering Director at Talkdesk he grew the AI team from 10 to 100 people and shipped the company’s first generative AI feature. Before that he built fraud-detection AI at Feedzai and led the European Commission’s first AWS and Azure cloud deployment. MSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Coimbra, and in Management from ISCTE.

Six years at Feedzai across pricing, commercial finance and product analysis, inside a fast-growing AI company. Growth Partner at Cubed and advisor to expressTEC and Hypermetal. Studied Management at Nova SBE and Mannheim Business School. Runs Coalex’s commercial model, pricing and operations.

Builds Coalex’s agent, evaluation and human-in-the-loop systems, and the MCP Governance Proxy. Works on how agents are evaluated and observed, which is the problem Coalex solves. Former FCT research scholar in machine learning and NLP with international conference publications, MSc in Data Science from NOVA IMS, and a Silicon Valley Fellowship alumnus.

Sixteen years at Devoteam: co-founder and CEO of BOLD by Devoteam for twelve, then CEO of Devoteam Portugal and Global Vice President. Founder LP at Shilling VC, with board and advisory roles at Networked and the General Council of Politécnico de Lisboa. Brings enterprise distribution and board-level experience.