Luiz (Lazzarotto) F.

Global Strategy expert with over a decade of experience in tech

Barcelona, Spain

Experience

Jul 2025 - Present
4 months
Barcelona, Spain

Faculty Professor

Harbour.Space University

  • Teach the Market Validation and Research Lab, a hands-on course for testing, validating, and iterating business ideas in real market conditions

  • Guide students through identifying customer problems, mapping competitive landscapes, and applying lean research techniques to gather actionable insights

  • Combine theory with experimentation to enable students to design MVPs, run surveys and interviews, and build evidence-based go-to-market strategies

Jun 2024 - Present
1 year 5 months
Barcelona, Spain

Global Strategy & Planning Manager

Preply

  • Built and led the strategic planning cycles, setting up the first area business plans to translate impact into the company's top-level figures

  • Led change management of the newly created customer excellence function, ensuring leadership and strategy changes did not affect team deliveries and ensured smooth adoption

  • Managed the first overarching strategy projects including commission review, availability strategy, and pricing, coordinating stakeholders from over 20 areas and ensuring buy-in on strategic initiatives

  • Owned automation projects within customer success to reduce headcount dependency, managed the automated bot, and developed business cases for additional AI tools

Jan 2023 - May 2024
1 year 5 months
Tallinn, Estonia

Global Strategy Lead

Bolt

  • Managed strategy for the taxi vertical across 40+ markets, implemented the first strategy planning and OKRs systems, and ran strategy planning workshops for key regions

  • Developed long-term 5-year plans for existing markets, expansion, and incremental growth opportunities (M&A, premium services, secondary city expansion)

  • Created business models and global tools for market and opportunity sizing, and driver's and riders' unit economics

  • Supported local and central teams with ad hoc analyses on regulation, competitive intelligence, reclassification, electric vehicles, and vehicle availability

  • Served as interim global expansion lead for LATAM and African markets, developing business cases, data gathering, go-to-market strategies, and managing early-stage countries

  • Managed stakeholder and project coordination across dozens of people and countries, from analysts to vice presidents

  • Led a team of 2 senior analysts

May 2022 - Dec 2022
8 months

Global Strategy Senior Analyst

Bolt

Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
1 year 2 months
São Paulo, Brazil

Strategy & Innovation Senior Analyst

Banco BV

  • Led the strategic foresight and future studies squad

  • Scanned and tracked medium and long-term trends and profit pools

  • Assessed and developed antifragile capabilities facing the future agenda in collaboration with the board

  • Developed, governed, and analyzed the bank's innovation metrics

  • Produced executive materials for the board, executive committee, and conferences

Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
1 year 1 month
São Paulo, Brazil

Innovation & New Ventures Senior Analyst

Movile

  • Conducted market and consumer habits research to develop new ventures

  • Monitored focus groups and developed buyer personas for branding

  • Managed business development and partnerships, achieving BRL 250K in annual recurring revenue

  • Built business cases for 3 new ventures with potential earnings over BRL 100M

  • Negotiated with major research companies such as Nielsen and SensorTower

Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
8 months
São Paulo, Brazil

Licensing and Business Development Senior Analyst

Movile

  • Led expansion into new markets, distribution channels, and product verticals

  • Managed global content acquisition deals and represented the company at international conferences

  • Controlled content budget, achieving 30% savings

  • Oversaw business intelligence for consumer insights and conducted market research for go-to-market strategies, performance campaigns, and product development

  • Managed relationships with over 150 partners

  • Developed a digital product that reached 1M users organically in one month

  • Drove company expansion to China and the US, generating BRL 600K in sales

Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
1 year
São Paulo, Brazil

Content Strategy and Business Development Analyst

Movile

Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
7 months
São Paulo, Brazil

Content Strategy and Business Development Junior Analyst

Movile

Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
1 year
São Paulo, Brazil

Content Strategy and Business Development Intern

Movile

Summary

I am a Global Business Strategist with a 15+ year track record of moving companies from vision to execution. I partner with founders and leadership teams to build scalable strategies that actually work, specializing in market expansion, customer experience, and change management.

My clients are typically high-growth tech companies who need to "Think Global, Act Local." They have a great product but need the senior-level, hands-on "builder" to design the operational and strategic playbooks for their next stage of growth.

I don't just deliver a slide deck; I embed with your team to build the frameworks, processes, and tools (from Miro to AI) that drive results. The outcome is a clear, actionable plan and an aligned team, all without the cost of a full-time executive.

Core Competencies:

Global Go-to-Market Strategy

Change Management & Org. Design

Customer Experience (CX) Strategy

AI Implementation for Operations

Languages

Portuguese
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced
Russian
Elementary

Education

Oct 2025 - Jun 2026

Universidad de Barcelona

Master’s degree in Business Research · Business Research · Barcelona, Spain

Oct 2020 - Jun 2021

Saint Paul Business School

Postgraduate degree in Business Strategy · Business Strategy · Palo, Philippines

Oct 2015 - Jun 2018

University of São Paulo

Bachelor’s Degree · International Relations · Brazil

Certifications & licenses

Corporate Strategy

UCL School of Management

Future’s Design

Echo’s future Lab

University Teaching

Hong Kong University

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