Hugo Barra is the CEO and co-founder of Detect, a Connecticut-based startup building an at-home molecular diagnostics platform with over $150M raised in venture financing. Detect is dedicated to developing å consumer-grade diagnostics platform offering laboratory accuracy using AI and next-generation molecular biology techniques. The company is the only startup to have received FDA's Emergency Use Authorization for a molecular over-the-counter Covid-19 test, and is currently developing a portfolio of low-cost molecular tests for Family Health, Sexual Health and Women's Health segments. 

Before Detect, Hugo led the Oculus division at Meta as Senior Vice President for 4 years and directed the company’s Virtual and Augmented Reality R&D portfolio and team of over 10,000. Before Meta, Hugo was Vice President of Global for Xiaomi in Beijing, China, where he was responsible for the company's P&L outside China, totaling 21 markets (incl. India, SEA, EU, Brazil) and paved the way to Xiaomi becoming the world's #2 smartphone manufacturer and the company's $54 billion IPO in 2018. Before Xiaomi, Hugo worked at Google for 6 years including as Vice President of Android product management, where he led the product team in developing the Android operating system, developer ecosystem and smartphone manufacturer alliances, reaching 1 billion users in 2013. Hugo holds two bachelor's degrees and a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.