João Carlos Ventura Sousa

Member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee (CCO) of CTT - Correios de Portugal, S.A. (CTT)

Date of Birth and nationality 26 March 1975, born in Portugal
Date of 1st appointment at CTT 18 September 2019
Term of office 2023 / 2025

Academic qualifications

  • 2023: Qualification course for Insurance Agent, Insurance Broker or Reinsurance Mediator - Non-Life and Life Branches, APS – Associação Portuguesa de Seguradores
  • 2011: Leadership and Innovation Programme, Católica School of Business & Economics
  • 1999: Master of Business Management, INDEG/ISCTE
  • 1998: Degree in Management and Marketing, Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração

Management and supervisory positions held internally

  • 2023 -...: Member of the Board of Directors of Payshop (Portugal), S.A.
  • 2022 -...: Chairman of the Board of Directors of CTT Services, S.A.
  • 2022 -…: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Medspring, S.A.
  • 2021- …: Member of the Board of Directors of CTT IMO – Sociedade Imobiliária, S.A.
  • 2021- …: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Newspring Services, S.A.
  • 2020 - …: Member of the Board of Directors of CTT Soluções Empresariais, S.A.
  • 2020 - …: Chairman of the Board of Directors of CTT Contacto, S.A. 
  • 2019 -… : Member of the Board of Directors of Correio Expresso de Moçambique, S.A. (CORRE)
  • 2019 - …: Member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of CTT  
  • 2019 - …: Member of the Board of Directors of CTT Expresso - Serviços Postais e Logística, S.A.
  • 2021 - 2022: Member of the Board of Directors of HCCM Outsourcing Investment, S.A.
  • 2019 - 2019: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tourline Express Mensajería, S.L.U. 

Other internal positions held

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Professional experience

Since 2015, he has been performing management functions, in particular as executive member of the Board of Directors (Chief Sales and Marketing Officer) of Altice Portugal (formerly Portugal Telecom), member of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PT Cloud and Data Centers and Portugal Telecom Data Center, having been appointed, as from September 2019, executive member of the Board of Directors of CTT.

As member of the Executive Committee of CTT(CCO), he is currently responsible for CTT's revenue areas, which he combines with the positions of member of the Board of Directors of Group companies CTT Expresso - Serviços Postais e Logística, S.A., Correio Expresso de Moçambique, S.A. (CORRE), CTT Soluções Empresariais, S.A., CTT IMO - Sociedade Imobiliária, S.A. and Payshop (Portugal), S.A., and Chairman of the Board of Directors of subsidiaries CTT Contacto, S.A., Newspring Services, S.A.,  Medspring, S.A. and CTT Services, S.A.

He started his professional career at Marconi as a Product and Market Manager responsible for the management of international products and tariffs and business development, having joined, two years later, Teleweb as New Businesses and Tariffs Manager being one of the members of the original team that launched this operator.

He joined Portugal Telecom Group (currently Altice Portugal) from 2001 on, as a SME manager at TMN, in charge of product development, sales channels and business development. During this period, he achieved market leadership in the B2B segment and launched the first convergent solution (Officebox). In 2004 he was the corporate market manager for TMN and in 2007 he was the director of the B2B segment of Portugal Telecom where he was responsible, among others, for the implementation of the sales strategy and for the management and operational development of several sales channels, namely for the management of the marketing plan and pricing strategy of the B2B offer (Wireline, Wireless and ICT) in all variables and for the Up & Cross Sell, having then played a fundamental role in the automation of the commercial processes.

Throughout his professional career at the Portugal Telecom Group (currently Altice Portugal), he was also responsible for the development and implementation of several organic restructuring programmes and, in this context, for mergers and acquisitions initiatives, having actively participated in the launch of new technological services and in the outsourcing of business processes in which he was responsible for the definition, communication and implementation of a medium and long-term strategy for customers, partners and employees.  

Management and supervisory positions held in other companies (last 5 years)

  • 2017 - 2019: Member of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PT Cloud and Data Centers, S.A.
  • 2017 - 2019: Member of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Portugal Telecom Data Center, S.A.
  • 2015 - 2019: Member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee (CMO) of Altice Portugal, S.A.

Other external positions held (last 5 years)

  • 2022-…: Vice-Chairman of the Board of APOE - Associação Portuguesa de Operadores Expresso