Roy de Souza
Roy de Souza is a Kenyan-born tech entrepreneur and writer. He is the co-founder of technology company ZEDO and medical technology company BreakBio. In 2022, he was a TEDx speaker. In May 2023, he and his wife Aisha de Sequeira were honored by the American Cancer Society for de Souza's work in personalized medicine.
Education
De Souza earned a master's degree in engineering from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Kellogg Business School.Career
De Souza served as a strategy consultant at the COBA Group, a strategy consulting boutique based in the UK. He also worked in product management for the Elon Musk-founded web software company Zip2.De Souza founded technology company ZEDO in 1999. In 2006, he founded the company Zebo, an offshoot of ZEDO focused on allowing users to catalog personal possessions and shop for similar items. De Souza launched online ad exchange ZINC India in 2011, which was originally ZEDO's ad exchange platform in India before becoming a separate company. He served as the ZEDO's CEO and oversaw the company as it transitioned into a subsidiary of Discovery following its acquisition by Discovery, Inc. in 2021.
In 2022, de Souza was a TEDx speaker, talking about vaccines to prevent cancer.