Pedro Sanzovo

GM, Head of Fraud @ Plaid

About

I am passionate about building products that solve complex challenges at the intersection of technology, data, and business value. As Senior Director of Product at Signifyd, I lead our Expansion Pod, where we create and develop new solutions that help shape the future of digital commerce with a current special focus on the returns and appeasements space, as well as applicability of novel techniques for decisioning leveraging large language models (LLMs) and transformer models. Prior to my current role, I served as Signifyd's Product lead for our Decision Platform, where I oversaw both ML-based model decisioning and rule-based systems, while also leading our global Product Design and UX Research initiatives. I also helped drive Signifyd's expansion in Latin America as the Customer Success lead for the region. My journey in fraud prevention began when I co-founded Legiti, where as CEO I led our growth to a team of 35 talented professionals serving over 20 high-growth digital merchants across Brazil. We developed solutions that consistently reduced chargeback rates and improved conversion rates for our customers, ultimately leading to our successful exit to Signifyd in 2023. Earlier in my career, I was a deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies, where I launched and led their anti-money laundering practice in Brazil. Working with one of the world's largest retail banks, I headed a team that developed comprehensive AML solutions, including KYC workflows and suspicious activity detection models. This role also took me across multiple global locations, where I worked on diverse projects ranging from natural catastrophe modeling for insurance to optimization of brewing processes for major beverages companies. I hold a Computer Science degree from Stanford University, where I was actively involved in teaching and mentoring as a Section Leader. I combine my technical background with strong business acumen to build products that deliver meaningful impact for users while driving sustainable growth.

Country

United States

City

Brooklyn

Industry

Internet

Skill

Consensus Building, Organization Skills, Presentations, Sales Processes, Complex Sales, Build Strong Relationships, Identifying New Opportunities, Data Analytics, Business-to-Business (B2B), Entrepreneurship, C++, Start-ups, Java, SQL, HTML, Data Analysis

Experience

GM, Head of Fraud

Plaid

2026-4 - Present · 6 mos

New York, United States

Overseeing Plaid's Fraud offerings across Identity Verification, Monitor (AML), Layer, Protect and Trust Index solutions.

Sr. Director of Product - New Products

Signifyd

2023-4 - 2026-4 · 3 yrs 1 mo

New York, United States

Business Lead for AI/ML, Risk, Data and Intelligent Returns

CEO & Co-Founder

Legiti

2019-6 - 2023-5 · 4 yrs

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Legiti was a wild ride. We grew the company to 35 collaborators, over 20 customers in Brazil. We developed a impactful product focused on high growth digital merchants that delivered consistent reduction in chargeback rates and improvement on conversion rates. Exited to Signifyd in early 2023.

Deployment Strategist

Palantir Technologies

2015-9 - 2018-7 · 2 yrs 11 mos

New York | Paris | London | Mexico City | São Paulo

Project Lead (São Paulo, Brazil) • Launched Palantir’s Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) practice in Brazil, heading a team of 6 people (4 engineers and 2 data analysts) from pilot scoping to product development and user trainings o Lead work to ingest, store and analyze over 1TB of structured and unstructured data from multiple dissonant and siloed systems in one of world’s largest retail banks o Developed data pipelines and front-end visualizations for the most effective and complete AML software in Latin America; encompassing KYC workflow for account opening, models for identification of suspicious activity and enhanced due diligence of selected cases Deployment Strategist (Multiple Locations) • Developed natural catastrophe impact model for one of the largest international insurance companies • Developed data pipelines and built front-end visualization for program managers at mass media conglomerate to evaluate and alter efficacy of cross-channel promotional campaigns • Conducted extensive data work to change how malting plants of America’s largest brewery interact with time series data, allowing for pro-active recipe alterations based on comparative historical analysis of product quality

Section Leader

Stanford University

2013-9 - 2015-6 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Grading of weekly projects and exams for CS 106 (Programming Methodology in Java/C++) • Running weekly office hours for CS 106A/B (Programming Methodology/Abstractions in Java/C++) • Responsible for weekly discussion sections with 11-student classroom taking CS 106A/B

Summer Associate

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

2014-6 - 2014-8 · 3 mos

Cidade de Nova Iorque e Região, Estados Unidos

• Worked with traditional software company to grow their SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) portfolio through improving expansion and extension rates • Developed key metrics for evaluation of SaaS portfolio financial health • Analyzed best-in-class customer success and support organizational structure for SaaS companies • Ran growth and revenue analysis for key customers and their behavior overtime