Senior VP of Product Management, Modeling Engineering

Two Sigma Investments

Fev 2020 – present. New York, USA

Discovering value in the world’s data, constantly advancing the bounds of our industry using a disciplined, scientific approach.

Lecturer, Applied Analytics

Columbia University

June 2023 – present. New York, USA

Faculty member of the MSc program in Applied Analytics teaching ‘Solving real-world problems with analytics’.

Mentor

Data Science for All by Correlation One

Sep 2020 – present. New York, USA

Helping create a more diverse global AI ecosystem. Mentorship of students and professionals who identify as Black, LatinX, female, veterans, LGBTQ+, and other underrepresented groups.

Director, Strategic Innovation

Axioma Inc.

June 2019 – Feb 2020. New York, USA

Director of Strategic Innovation at Qontigo, a recently formed financial intelligence company bringing together Axioma, DAX and STOXX to deliver the most sophisticated risk analytics and portfolio-construction tools as well as market-defining indices.

Responsible for Product Incubation / AI / Advanced Analytics with a mission to create new fintech businesses that drive growth for the firm.

Vice President, Product Development

Yewno, Inc.

June 2017 – June, 2019. New York, USA
October 2016 – June 2017. California, USA
May 2016 – October 2016. London, United Kingdom

Co-founded the Financial Services vertical at Yewno, a Silicon Valley-based start-up that leverages AI and Knowledge Graphs to launch products and solutions including index strategies, alternative data feeds and an award-winning AI platform for financial services professionals. Winner of the 2020 Global Technology Innovation Award for predictive analytics in the financial services industry.

  • Played a key leadership role in the company during fast growth stage applying AI-based technology to create new commercial business opportunities building out multiple product lines, strategic partnerships and revenue channels from the ground up.

  • Opened company’s New York office (12 employees), defined product strategy and managed project execution coordinating the efforts of multiple engineering, data science and quant teams in New York, California and Europe.

  • Launched 14+ AI-based equity-index products licensed to asset management firms and investment banks such as Amundi, DWS and BNP Paribas with over $300M in AUM.

  • Launched 10+ alternative data feeds licensed to top Hedge Funds and distributed by Quandl and Factset.

  • Launched company’s AI-platform for investment professionals, short-listed as the 2019 AI platform of the year at the Benzinga Fintech Awards

Researcher, Financial Computing & Analytics

UCL, University of London

November 2014 – 2016. London, United Kingdom

Supervised research projects with industry partners (Investment Banks and Hedge Funds). Taught Masters courses in data analytics and financial computing.

Senior Business Analyst

BM&FBOVESPA - Brazilian Stock Exchange

May 2013 – September 2014 | São Paulo Area, Brazil

BM&FBovespa is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world in terms of market value, the second largest in the Americas, and the leading exchange in Latin America.

Working on an International Project as Front/Back Office Business Analyst focused on OTC derivatives over the Vendor Calypso Technology; Providing a link among customer, development team, and third party vendor’s specialists from USA, France and India.

Launched the largest OTC trading platform in Latin America:

  • Pricing Models, Market Data Management (bootstrapping, volatility smiles, forecasting curves), Trade Capture, Payoff, Accrual and Market Risk.

  • Also responsible for the in-sprint Quality Assurance working closely with the Development team to Knowledge Transfer business requirements, definition and execution of Acceptance Tests, review functional completeness of delivered code.

  • Post sprint work to review and triage defects, prioritize new business requirements, ensure production quality of service.

Finance Professor, Quantitative Finance

Profins Business School

2013 – 2013 | São Paulo Area, Brazil

Modules:

  • Quantitative Finance
  • Introduction to Derivatives

http://www.profins.com.br/sp/programas/curso.php?id_curso=232

IT Business Analyst, Market Risk

Itau-Unibanco

2011 – 2013 | São Paulo Area, Brazil

Itau Unibanco Holding S.A is the largest financial conglomerate in the Southern Hemisphere and is the 10th largest bank in the world by market value.

Awarded for High Performance: Best 20% of Itaú-Unibanco’s analysts at 2012.

Acting as Business Analyst, building the bridge between Risk Modeling and IT.

Pricing and Risk of OTC Derivatives.

Systems Analyst, JAVA

University of Sao Paulo

April 2010 – September 2011 | São Paulo Area, Brazil