About us

SportsPower AI is revolutionizing professional sports coaching and fans experience introducing the first Autonomous Real-Time AI Coach Assistant

Paulo Costa

Ceo and co-founder
Paulo Costa is the CEO and co-founder of Human Squared Technologies which the objective to develop solutions based in Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for relevant open problems affecting people and companies. Before Human Squared, Paulo worked for Cisco Systems as Director for Advanced Analytics where he received a variety of awards including the prestigious American Marketing Association Gold Medal for Analytics. His group also developed a family of machine learning models responsible for more than $1B in bookings uplift. Before Cisco, Paulo worked for IBM as consulting principal in advanced analytics in more than twenty countries in a variety industries . Paulo is an Electrical Engineer with MSc. in Statistics, Optimization, and Control Theory from PUC-Rio. He also has certification in advanced analytics from MIT and certification in marketing from Wharton.

Saru Mehta

Leader of Software Development and co-founder
Saru Mehta is the Leader of Software Development and co-founder at Human Squared Technologies. She will be responsible to build powerful data-driven software that recommend strategies to users and help them uncover hidden patterns at real-time. Saru has a diverse background starting with under graduation in Genetics at UC Davis, Computer Science (Post Bacc) at SFSU, and Data Science (Masters) at … Berkeley. She loves to use her programming, statistics, and analytical skills to design scalable solutions for complex, big-data problems. She continues to tackle the problem of transforming raw data into meaningful insights, optimizing ETL processes, and creating dashboards that highlight significant metrics and results. Outside of work, she loves learning about different cultures’ perspectives on healthy living and finding inner peace. Her lifelong dream is to travel the world and absorb as much as she can from the surroundings. She also would love to compete in the CrossFit games one day!

Pedro Suanno

Data and AI
Pedro Suanno owns a BSc. in Civil Engineering from PUC-Rio (Brazil) and a MEng. in Numerical Methods for Modelling and Simulation from Ecole Centrale (France). After taking part in large-scale optimization projects in Germany and Brazil, Pedro completed a MSc. in Applied Mathematics at Université Paris-Saclay, with a strong focus on Optimization and Game Theory. Motivated by his admiration for Math and AI, he enjoys applying his knowledge on optimization, machine learning and statistics to open R&D projects. As his hobbies, Pedro loves hiking and reading about human behavior, and travelling is his favorite activity. He visited more than 40 countries and has full professional proficiency in Portuguese, English, French, German and Spanish. He is fascinated by sports of all kinds, but soccer is undoubtedly his passion!

Vinicius Werneck

Marketing & Communications
Vinicius Werneck is responsible for Marketing & Communications at Sports Power AI. He graduated in Advertising & Marketing in 2008 and got a second degree in Journalism in 2012, both at the University Center of Brasília (UniCEUB). After that, worked as a journalist for almost 10 years for two big media companies in Brazil: Rede Globo and CNN. He also has experience working at the press office of the brazilian capital government and at the Chamber of Deputies. In 2018, got a Master’s in Business Administration focused on Marketing at the Brazilian Institute of Capital Market (IBMEC). Vinicius has enormous interest in social media and studied them through his college and MBA. His last paper, published at IBMEC, is about the impact of social media on politics at Brazil, something that turned out to be decisive on the 2018 elections.

Paulo Costa

Ceo and co-founder
Paulo Costa is the CEO and co-founder of Human Squared Technologies which the objective to develop solutions based in Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for relevant open problems affecting people and companies. Before Human Squared, Paulo worked for Cisco Systems as Director for Advanced Analytics where he received a variety of awards including the prestigious American Marketing Association Gold Medal for Analytics. His group also developed a family of machine learning models responsible for more than $1B in bookings uplift. Before Cisco, Paulo worked for IBM as consulting principal in advanced analytics in more than twenty countries in a variety industries . Paulo is an Electrical Engineer with MSc. in Statistics, Optimization, and Control Theory from PUC-Rio. He also has certification in advanced analytics from MIT and certification in marketing from Wharton.

Saru Mehta

Leader of Software Development and co-founder
Saru Mehta is the Leader of Software Development and co-founder at Human Squared Technologies. She will be responsible to build powerful data-driven software that recommend strategies to users and help them uncover hidden patterns at real-time. Saru has a diverse background starting with under graduation in Genetics at UC Davis, Computer Science (Post Bacc) at SFSU, and Data Science (Masters) at … Berkeley. She loves to use her programming, statistics, and analytical skills to design scalable solutions for complex, big-data problems. She continues to tackle the problem of transforming raw data into meaningful insights, optimizing ETL processes, and creating dashboards that highlight significant metrics and results. Outside of work, she loves learning about different cultures’ perspectives on healthy living and finding inner peace. Her lifelong dream is to travel the world and absorb as much as she can from the surroundings. She also would love to compete in the CrossFit games one day!

Pedro Suanno

Data and AI
Pedro Suanno owns a BSc. in Civil Engineering from PUC-Rio (Brazil) and a MEng. in Numerical Methods for Modelling and Simulation from Ecole Centrale (France). After taking part in large-scale optimization projects in Germany and Brazil, Pedro completed a MSc. in Applied Mathematics at Université Paris-Saclay, with a strong focus on Optimization and Game Theory. Motivated by his admiration for Math and AI, he enjoys applying his knowledge on optimization, machine learning and statistics to open R&D projects. As his hobbies, Pedro loves hiking and reading about human behavior, and travelling is his favorite activity. He visited more than 40 countries and has full professional proficiency in Portuguese, English, French, German and Spanish. He is fascinated by sports of all kinds, but soccer is undoubtedly his passion!

Vinicius Werneck

Marketing & Communications
Vinicius Werneck is responsible for Marketing & Communications at Sports Power AI. He graduated in Advertising & Marketing in 2008 and got a second degree in Journalism in 2012, both at the University Center of Brasília (UniCEUB). After that, worked as a journalist for almost 10 years for two big media companies in Brazil: Rede Globo and CNN. He also has experience working at the press office of the brazilian capital government and at the Chamber of Deputies. In 2018, got a Master’s in Business Administration focused on Marketing at the Brazilian Institute of Capital Market (IBMEC). Vinicius has enormous interest in social media and studied them through his college and MBA. His last paper, published at IBMEC, is about the impact of social media on politics at Brazil, something that turned out to be decisive on the 2018 elections.