Chief Data & AI Officer | ex-McKinsey | Forbes Tech Council | Author
Pedro Uria-Recio (born in Bilbao in 1980) is a Spanish business executive and an expert in AI currently residing in Southeast Asia.
Pedro was the Chief Analytics and AI Officer at True Corporation, a prominent telecommunications company in Thailand. There, he oversaw analytics and AI initiatives for the digital segment of the business, leading a unit that utilized telecommunications data to develop corporate solutions in advertising, credit scoring, and consumer intelligence. Additionally, he serves as a visiting lecturer in AI for business at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.
Before his tenure at True Corporation, Pedro was Vice President of Analytics at Axiata, a digital and telecommunications conglomerate operating in six Asian markets. Previously, he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, focusing on telecommunications and financial services.
Pedro has a strong interest in entrepreneurship and served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Antler, a venture capital studio in Singapore. He is also an official member and contributor to the Forbes Technology Council and has been a speaker at two TEDx events. He was recognized as one of the Top 100 Global Innovators in Data and Analytics in 2020 and received the Cloudera Industry Transformation Award in 2019.
Pedro holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a telecommunications engineering degree from the School of Engineers in Bilbao.