Head of Data Science | Head of Fraud | AI | ML | Analytics | Risk | Payments | Banking | Insurance |

About

🎯 Data Science Leader | Fraud Strategy & Credit Risk | AI & ML Leadership
Italian 🇮🇹 & Brazilian 🇧🇷 professional | EU citizen 🇪🇺 | 18+ years in Data Science, Fraud & Risk in Europe and Brazil.

• Leadership across Tier-1 banks, payments and health insurance in LATAM (Itaú, Santander, Brazilian Stock Exchange, Porto Seguro), with a track record in building high-performing teams from scratch and delivering scalable Machine Learning (ML) models driving revenue growth, risk management, and Fraud Detection and Prevention in payments. As Head of Analytics at AI startup Alert, launched an AI customer segmentation product. At Porto Seguro, led Pricing amp; Risk ML on GCP, reducing loss ratio by 1.4 p.p.

• 8+ years in Data Science, Analytics and AI leadership, leading cross-functional teams of up to 15 across Data Science, Data Engineering, MLOps and Business Analytics, backed by 9+ years as a hands-on individual contributor in ML and analytics and a consistent track record of delivering measurable impact on revenue and loss mitigation.

• Deep Expertise in ML & AI for Fraud, Credit Risk, CRM, Pricing, AML, Financial Crime.

• Global Mindset: 🇮🇪 Ireland (3 years), 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇵🇹 Portugal. Led remote teams across time zones.

• Technically grounded leadership in regulated industries: SAS, Python, SQL, cloud (GCP, AWS), Power BI, Tableau.

• GenAI: Deployed LLM-based solutions to automate call auditing, reducing manual effort by 30%.

• Differentiator: Aligns Data Science & Analytics with business strategy to deliver insights, smarter decisions and ROI. Combines technical depth with commercial vision to build partnerships in regulated environments. Translates analytics into C-suite decisions via storytelling to drive growth and efficiency.

🎯 Open to senior / leadership roles in Data Science, AI, Fraud & Risk across EMEA (Ireland 🇮🇪, Italy 🇮🇹, and wider EU 🇪🇺) and Brazil 🇧🇷. Open to relocation.

Skills
A/B Testing, Statistics, Machine Learning, BI, CLV, KPIs, Scikit-learn, NumPy, Data Strategy, Decision Science, Generative AI, TensorFlow, Feature Engineering, IFRS 9, Explainable AI, Team Leadership, Risk Management, Agile, Executive Stakeholder Management, Pandas, XGBoost, Deep Learning, Strategic Leadership, Model Risk, People Management, Fintech, Predictive Modeling, Merchant Acquiring, PD, RAG, Fraud Prevention, NLP, anomaly detection, Prompt Engineering