António Murta

Biography

  Mr. António Murta is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Pathena SGPS. Mr. Murta serves as a Non Executive Board Member for two companies of Pathena’s portfolio. He is also a founding partner of various other IT companies such as connected ITPeers, Profimetrics, and QuiiQ. Mr. Murta is a Co-Founder of CardMobili, SA. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Wipro Portugal S.A. Mr. Murta is a Co-founder of MobiComp and also serves as a Non-Executive Director. He served as the Chief Information Officer and Corporate Information officer at Sonae Retailing ,where he led the development of systems and processes that caused to be identified by Forrester as having the best processes of a food retailer in Europe. Mr. Murta pioneered much of the early content of Retek's (now Oracle Retail) food functionality, Sonae being the first major food retailer to deploy the Retek system in the world. He was responsible for the creation of Enabler in 1997. Mr. Murta served as Vice President of Retail Services at Wipro Portugal S.A. He has 20+ years experience in IT and retail. Mr. Murta is a Member of the General Board of University of Minho and a non-exec Director of COTEC Portugal. He has also been appointed a Member of the National Council for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, as well as Portugal’s Representative at the Digital Agenda for Europe. Mr. Murta graduated as a systems engineer from the Minho University, an MBA from Escola de Gestão do Porto (EGP) / Porto University, AMP from INSEAD and post-graduate studies from ISEE and MIT.  

Research Interest

 Business Management