Ayrton Barros

At NeoCharge, we're striving to accelerate the electrification of mobility in Brazil, by selling EV recharging software, stations, and services. My mission is to further develop, implement and scale our full-service EV recharging offer while building a dream team to support it.

Participating in Cohort 4 of the Climatebase Fellowship program, a meticulously curated mid-career accelerator that champions exceptionally talented, mission-driven individuals within our community. This unique program serves as a dynamic launchpad, fostering the development of future leaders in the Climate Tech industry.

ABVE's (Brazil's EV Association) mission is to foster the wide use of electric vehicles in Brazil so that people and goods transportation becomes more efficient, benefitting the population's well-being, the environment, and its associates as a whole.

Responsible for product strategy and scaling operations through. • Structured and launched a new product that become core business with 80% of units sold in less than 6 months. • Built a supplier-gap decision model to allocate 200+ ongoing renovations to suppliers based on capacity for quality and timely delivery. Unlocked greater capacity contrary to established mindset, creating structure and visibility. • Created a decision model to compare full refurbishment vs home flipping renovation marketplace business models that informed decision to scale solutions. Assigned to task force to lead capacity analysis given knowledge of suppliers. Uncovered supplier capacity and ambition mismatches. Led renovation supplier taskforce. Conducted value stream mapping to create processes, measure lead times, and automate systems. • Partnered with Tech Squad to create a predictive model for matching Suppliers with renovations. • Built the Kitchen and Bathroom Cabinets product line from scratch based on client feedback and market research that these were most pivotal to apartment sells. Created a predictable model that provides clients with wow moment while partnering with an upscale cabinet company. Built a tax solutions and regulatory analysis model to ensure compliance of the underlying iBuyer Fund. Partnered with Architects, Sales, Finance, Operations, Asset Management, Fund Managers, and Lawyers on various aspects to ensure feasibility and viability. Conducted A/B testing to quantify financial impact. • Served in a Developer capacity due to shortage of Tech/Dev staff to ensure continuity of business systems. • Currently working on an "easy closing" financial product to provide liquidity to sellers during the 4-month mortgage emission period.

• Launched TokPay, a private label digital wallet, prior to becoming Product Owner of the commercial squad • Led sales, marketing, CX, operations, and product strategy while building partnerships across tech and finance. • Supervised an eight-person Commercial Squad managing a product backlog through proprietary ERP and MRP modules, several web products, and data demands. • Negotiated, closed, and oversaw a deal that saw the acquisition of a credit digital wallet operation with 12k clients from a major furniture retailer to a fintech unicorn (acting as sell side).

• Selected to the very competitive trainee program, with over 70k applications. Developed leadership, innovation, agile methodologies, and commercial acumen through a series of job rotations.

• Answering directly to the founders, worked independently on various cross-department projects. • Capitalized on Big Data: Data Science, ML, Python, SQL, Fashion Design, Forecasting Models, among others. • Built a VIP customer loyalty program that generated a 30% uplift over control group. • Leveraged Data Science to improve fashion e-commerce sales by 9% by better predicting best sellers.

Joined the Junior Enterprise Movement as a junior consultant and progressed to a project manager focused on selling, executing, managing, and leading industrial engineering related projects throughout São Paulo's state. Served in multiple capacities including Vice President at Junior Enterprise Center of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), and served on an advisory board to aid strategic decisions and provide mentoring on the projects. Has a short stint at FEJESP, where I evaluated and provided feedback on strengths and opportunity areas of Junior Enterprises of the federation.

CAEP is the academic center of the industrial engineering students of UFSCar. Together with some colleagues, we've created a new "Academic Area", where we had the job of listening to the students issues, and articulate how to address them within the department, the center and the university.

Took two summer jobs at Itaú, at Credit Risk and Collection areas.