Andre Bastos

Entrepreneur, chief strategy officer, and Chief Sales Officer in Chicago, IL, US

Andre Bastos

Entrepreneur, chief strategy officer, and Chief Sales Officer in Chicago, IL, US

Senior Level Business Growth Leader

A business-building entrepreneur with strong finance, strategy, operations, sales, and general management background in start-ups and large corporations. Created an online technology-based business from scratch while orchestrating and closing investment funding from major firms such as Goldman Sachs, Monashess, IFC, and Franklin Templeton. Adept at leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data to achieve a cutting-edge B2C financial services offering. Develops an Agile culture across the enterprise that delivers significant productivity improvement. A strong negotiator with vendors and orchestrated sales partnerships with retailers and 15 Fortune 500 firms. Awarded the 2020 best FinTech CFO in Brazil. Fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Technology savvy |Tech-enabled | Financial engineering | Business strategy | Mergers & Acquisitions | Business development | Talent management | Capital funding | Digital transformation | Disruptive innovation | Blitzscaling | Ambidextrous leadership | Transformational leadership | Advisor | Customer-Centric | P&L Management | New Business | Entrepreneurial mindset | Sales Growth | B2B | BNPL | Buy Now Pay Later | FinTech | Storytelling | consumer packaged goods CPG | Marketing Strategies | Media Relations |Content Development | Consumer Engagement | Financial Communications (transactions, acquisitions, IR) | Motivating Multi-Faceted, High-Performance Teams across many Geographies | Corporate leadership in private, public companies and venture capital and private equity-backed | Strong commercial judgment | Strategic partner to executive management and Boards of Directors

• Dual Citizenship (USA and Brazil) | Work authorization in both countries
• Fluent speaker in English, Portuguese and Spanish
• Awarded the prize of best FinTech CFO in Brazil in 2020
• Former board member of tech and media companies PadTec and Pini
• Endeavor Mentor for entrepreneurs
• Member of the Global Innovator program from the World Economic Forum
• Received a Master of Business and Administration in Entrepreneurship and Corporate Finance from New York University Stern School of Business
• Scored 750 on GMAT
• Angel investor for movies and start-ups
• MBA internship launching the Valor Capital Fund, NY
• Awarded academic scholarship for engineering based on admission exam results

  • Work
    • Open Co (FinTech)
  • Education
    • NYU Stern - New York - US
    • PUC - Rio - Brazil
    • Coppead / UFRJ - Rio - Brazil