Kevin Pereira is currently the Managing Director at Blu Artificial Intelligence, an Artificial Intelligence consulting firm based in Hong Kong. After growing up in Hong Kong, he started his career in Private Banking with Citi in New York where he worked in both the Investments and Relationship Management areas. He then moved back to Hong Kong to join Bank of New York Mellon’s Asset Management business, where he helped to build a new group that specialized in products tailored to High Net Worth Individuals. After going back to business school, Kevin joined a technology startup in Myanmar that was building out internet infrastructure which included fiber optic, cell towers and data centers. In this role, he spent half his time with the Venture Capital firm in Hong Kong and the rest on the ground with the portfolio company in Myanmar.
Kevin is also a Part-time Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he teaches a full-credit MBA course, “Artificial Intelligence for Business Leaders”. He also lectures at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) as a Visiting Scholar where he teaches “Big Data in Finance”. In terms of lecturing in the larger Asia Pacific region, Kevin is an Adjunct Faculty at the Asian Institute of technology in Thailand where he teaches a course on the “Business of Frontier Technologies”. In addition to his education work in academia, Kevin has delivered numerous corporate AI workshops to members of innovation and strategy teams from a myriad of industries in multiple locations around the world.
Kevin graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics with concentrations in Finance, Management and Marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has an MBA from INSEAD.
