Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Notable Cases
Languages
Timeline
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Lucas Claro

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Tech Strategy Consultant

Accenture
10.2024 - Current
  • Specializes in projects involving applied Big Data, Analytics, new business models, and revenue growth.
  • Leads the design and implementation of agile/product-centric operational models and end-to-end analytics solutions for large corporations.
  • Experience in Commodities, Consumer Goods, and Financial Services sectors.
  • Applied Data Science tools and methdologies for projects (SQL, Python, Power BI, Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Models)

Associate Manager & Digital Products Leader

KPMG Consulting
12.2020 - 09.2024
  • Managed a squad of 5 consultants on Digital Products, Strategy, Corporate Venture Building, and New Business Design consulting projects across multiple industries.
  • Technical and commercial lead in developing product strategy, delivery, and operations.
  • Negotiated, managed, and executed projects encompassing all stages of digital strategy and products, including: i) discovery, ii) ideation, iii) prototyping iv) planning, v) deployment, and vi) marketing.

Founder

8020 Sport
01.2018 - 01.2021
  • Conceptualized and created a startup that brought individualized training to athletes.
  • Value proposition was to deliver algorithmized programming for athletes based on their fitness goals and past sessions across multiple modalities.
  • Developed and managed product (including strategy, roadmap, and brand and visual identity).

Co-Owner

CrossFit Vila Madá
06.2016 - 01.2021
  • General manager on operational, financial, and customer experience activities in a gym with 200+ members and revenue growth in 4 years (every year before the pandemic)
  • Developed and managed products (plans, classes, additional services, merchandise).
  • Designed digital and physical marketing material and merchandise.

Senior Financial Modeler

Jive Investments
09.2014 - 02.2017
  • Defined and executed the collection strategy for personal debt portfolios in Brazil (BRL 1 billion face value) and Colombia (USD 20 million face value).
  • Financial modeling for purchase of debt portfolios, lawsuits, and distressed assets.

Structured Trade Finance Intern

Standard Chartered Bank
12.2013 - 08.2014
  • Assisted in the creation and management of structured financial products for large corporations, with focus on commodities and mining sectors of Brazil, Asia, Middle East, and Africa.
  • Created a financial calculator tool for multiple return scenario analysis of existing and potential operations.

Legal and Compliance Intern

BlackRock
03.2013 - 11.2013
  • Analyzed and produced contracts and other legal material for the firm's Latin America offices dealing with a wide range of areas, especially corporate law and capital markets regulation.
  • Finalist on internal Innovation Challenge on how to improve the iShares business, with idea on crowd sourced new products.

Education

MBA - Data Science and Analytics

Universidade De São Paulo (USP)
07.2025

Bachelor - Law

Universidade De São Paulo (USP)
12.2015

Bachelor - International Relations

Pontifícia Universidade Católica De São Paulo (PUC-SP)
12-2012

Skills

  • Data Analytics
  • Product Management
  • Innovation
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Leadership Skills
  • Fast Learner
  • Financial Modeling
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Power BI / Tableau

Notable Cases

Innovation Operating Model , Largest Energy Transmission Company in Latin America (2023-2024)


Context

The company underwent rapid expansion through numerous acquisitions. This accelerated growth resulted in a fragmented IT
landscape and a legacy operating model that was slow, inefficient, and lacked the processes needed to foster and manage technological innovation effectively.


Key Activities

  • Conducted comprehensive interviews with stakeholders across the organization to understand their primary challenges and
    identify specific barriers to innovation.
  • Analyzed stakeholder pains and requirements to define the core components of a successful technology innovation pipeline
  • Designed a new operating model for innovation, establishing clear processes for idea generation, experimentation, prototyping, and the scaling of new solutions and technologies, which needed to be ran along the day-to-day IT operation




Digital Platform (from idea to Mass Market launch), Top 10 Global Insurance Company (2022-2023)


Context

Client suffered significant losses during the pandemic due to a revenue model reliant on physical retail stores and brokers. Because of that, they approached us with a request to deploy B2C offers, having decided to start their portfolio with a digital product for used smartphone insurance.


Key Activities

  • Product discovery including potential clients and non-clients: quantitative (more than a 1,000 respondents) and qualitative
    research (30 online interviews)
  • 4 different business models proposed for different types of clients and markets, using Design Sprints to quickly prototype and user test for validation
  • Deployment of finished digital product with relevant differentials to final users through integration of business, client support, marketing, design, and development teams




Digital Strategy and Innovation Portfolio, Top 5 Global Consumer Health Goods Company (2021-2023)


Context

Client is internationally recognized for its baby, youth, and general health and wellness products. However, the world population
is getting older (in 2030, 1 in 6 people will be 60 and over). As a response, their request was a digital-first strategy and innovation
portfolio the 60+ market, including the design of disruptive offers, experiment designs for validation, and a Roadmap for their implementation.


Key Activities

  • Coordinating with multiple LATAM Stakeholders (Brazil, Mexico, Colombia)
  • Deep dive into the 60+ population needs and wants (quantitative
    and qualitative research)
  • Leading of co-creation workshop sessions in which different main areas of opportunity were explored, ideas for new products
    were generated and prioritized
  • Value testing for each of the ideas prioritized in order to define a roadmap of product and feature deployment
  • Financial modeling to understand costs and potential revenue for each of the product ideas
  • This project has led to a pilot in Mexico

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Spanish
Advanced (C1)
French
Intermediate (B1)
Italian
Intermediate (B1)
German
Elementary (A2)

Timeline

Tech Strategy Consultant

Accenture
10.2024 - Current

Associate Manager & Digital Products Leader

KPMG Consulting
12.2020 - 09.2024

Founder

8020 Sport
01.2018 - 01.2021

Co-Owner

CrossFit Vila Madá
06.2016 - 01.2021

Senior Financial Modeler

Jive Investments
09.2014 - 02.2017

Structured Trade Finance Intern

Standard Chartered Bank
12.2013 - 08.2014

Legal and Compliance Intern

BlackRock
03.2013 - 11.2013

MBA - Data Science and Analytics

Universidade De São Paulo (USP)

Bachelor - Law

Universidade De São Paulo (USP)

Bachelor - International Relations

Pontifícia Universidade Católica De São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Lucas Claro