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Etienne Cartolano

São Paulo

Summary

Distinguished leader with over 15 years in high-impact product and technology management roles, holding an MBA from MIT and a PhD from USP. Expert in guiding product and technical teams to deliver groundbreaking solutions, optimizing business operations and enriching customer experience. Proficient in fostering cross-functional teamwork, pioneering entrepreneurship, and cultivating strategic partnerships.

Work History

Head of Responsible & Secure AI

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
  • Established the "AI Red Team" to develop a risk framework and a multi-agent system for safety and ethical evaluations, regularly presenting achievements to the Executive Committee
  • Partnered with the CFO's team to create a Corporate Institute dedicated to technology research, starting with 60 researchers, and establishing key collaborations with academia.

Head of the Corporate Venture Builder

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
  • Led an eight-person team to test new business models from planning stages through to market launch and customer expansion, leading to 3 ventures with 2 incorporations.

Senior Data Science Manager

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
07.2024
  • Managed 4 data science teams (4 managers, 46 scientists) across 10 business units, creating practical and efficiency-boosting solutions that increased revenue by $60M/year
  • Collaborate to implement an innovative internal service dedicated to recruiting and training data scientists bank-wide, helping to expand the team from 10 professionals to 300 by 2024
  • Enhanced global academic partnerships and, as a board member, created a scholarship program with USP, funding over 30 researchers since 2018 with an investment exceeding $1M
  • Acted as a technology ambassador, speaking on data science at scientific events, meetups, and conferences, and teaching courses at universities.

Senior Product Manager

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
07.2024 - 06.2024
  • Orchestrated the development of digital channels, leading teams to 90% negotiation automation rate via machine learning, increasing revenues by $31M.

Product Manager

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
07.2024 - 06.2024
  • Managed a team to pricing strategies for foreign currency exchange across the bank, increasing revenues by $38M in one year.

Senior Business Analyst

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
07.2024 - 06.2024
  • Optimized product acquisition and distribution strategies, involving over 4,000 in-branch account managers, leading to a substantial revenue increase of $223M
  • Engineered a comprehensive predictive analytics framework capable of forecasting potential revenue from 5M prospects, successfully deployed across various product lines bank wide.

Corporate Trainee

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
03.2024 - 06.2024
  • Generated segmentations based on cross-selling profitability, increasing revenues by $10M.

Senior Group Product Manager

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
01.2024 - 02.2024
  • Initiated and led the experimentation area, addressing a crucial need in digital product innovation and built a multidisciplinary team of 85, managing a $5M funded by business units
  • Formed strategic partnerships, notably with the payments team - a key and sensitive area which manages 30% of national transactions - highlighting the project's impact and resilience
  • Deployed an MVP platform managing 70M daily calls, cutting latency by 50% and achieving a 0% error rate, through a cloud-based architecture serving all channels
  • Achieved a 10x increase in monthly testing, fostering a test culture and training hundreds of PMs, designers, and technical staff, improving the product development process.

Education

MBA -

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF THECNOLOGY - MIT

Exchange PhD student -

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

Exchange undergrad student -

ÉCOLE CENTRALE DE LYON, France

Bachelor, Master, and PhD in Computer Eng. -

UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO - USP

Skills

  • SQL
  • R
  • Python
  • HTML
  • PHP
  • ML packages
  • Decision-Making
  • Time Management
  • Team Management
  • Problem Resolution

Languages

Native speaker of Portuguese
Fluent in English
Advanced level in French

Hobbies

  • Percussion in street carnival
  • Aerial pictures with drones

Entrepreneurial Experiences

  • MAWE.AI - co-founder of an AI Risk management startup (2024 - actual).
  • CR BANK - co-founder of a data-monetization startup, pre-accelerated at MIT (2020 - 2021).
  • BBCHAIN - co-founder of a consulting firm specialized in Blockchain and DLT tech (exit in 2018).

Personal Information

Title: SENIOR GROUP PRODUCT & TECHNOLOGY MANAGER

Timeline

Senior Data Science Manager

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
07.2024

Senior Product Manager

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
07.2024 - 06.2024

Product Manager

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
07.2024 - 06.2024

Senior Business Analyst

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
07.2024 - 06.2024

Corporate Trainee

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
03.2024 - 06.2024

Senior Group Product Manager

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO
01.2024 - 02.2024

Head of Responsible & Secure AI

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO

Head of the Corporate Venture Builder

ITAÚ-UNIBANCO

MBA -

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF THECNOLOGY - MIT

Exchange PhD student -

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

Exchange undergrad student -

ÉCOLE CENTRALE DE LYON, France

Bachelor, Master, and PhD in Computer Eng. -

UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO - USP

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