MBA ’28 · MIT Sloan · Product & Strategy

RenzoLara

Technology, strategy and data. I help teams make better decisions: where to invest, what to build, and how to grow.

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Portrait of Renzo Lara
La Paz → Miami → DC → Arlington → London → Cambridge

MIT’s Great Dome · Peacearth, CC BY-SA 4.0

About

I’ve built my career where technology, data and strategy meet: working out what customers need, what the numbers say, and what a business should build next.

Foundation

I studied economics and finance at George Washington University, graduating summa cum laude as a Presidential Scholar and tutoring game theory and regression along the way.

Experience

Over four years I rose from Associate Consultant to Associate Managing Consultant. I expanded a key software product into Europe, brought Snowflake into our analytics platform, and advised banks, retailers and restaurant brands across the U.S., Latin America and Europe on where to invest. I was selected for a rotation in London and founded the Arlington chapter of our Latin employee group.

Now

As a Dean’s Fellow at MIT Sloan, I’m earning certificates in Product Management and Business Analytics and building AI prototypes. I’m focused on product and strategy roles at technology companies operating at scale. If that sounds like your team, let’s talk.

  • Product strategy
  • Go-to-market
  • Data & analytics
  • Cross-functional leadership
  • Global markets

The route

Six cities,
one through-line

  1. 01La Paz spread across the valley below snow-capped Illimani

    La Paz, Bolivia

    Home

    Where I grew up, under the Illimani mountain.

    Photo: Pavel Špindler, CC BY 3.0

  2. 02The Brickell skyline across the water in Miami

    Miami, FL

    2019

    Also called Miami home, and interned at AmperXGroup, an energy and software company.

    Photo: Daniel Christensen, public domain

  3. 03The Washington Monument reflected in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

    Washington, DC

    2018 – 22

    George Washington University. BBA in Economics & Finance, summa cum laude.

    Photo: Ali Khan, CC BY-SA 4.0

  4. 04The Rosslyn skyline in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac

    Arlington, VA

    2022 – 26

    Mastercard Data & Services, from Associate Consultant to Associate Managing Consultant.

    Photo: Cornflower123, CC0

  5. 05The London skyline and the Thames from Waterloo Bridge

    London, UK

    2026

    Four-month rotation as one of four North American experts supporting global clients.

    Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0

  6. 06The MIT Sloan School of Management building in Cambridge

    Cambridge, MA

    2026 →

    MIT Sloan MBA ’28 and Dean’s Fellow.

    Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY 4.0

How I work

Launch.
Measure.
Scale.

Good products aren’t just shipped; they’re proven. I’ve helped teams launch new products and features, read what they actually changed, and decide where to invest next.

  1. Find the problem worth solving

    Start from the customer and the decision the business needs to make.

  2. Launch with a baseline

    Roll out to a pilot group and compare it with a matched control, so the impact is real, not seasonality.

  3. Scale what works

    Double down on winners, rethink the rest, and feed the lessons back into the roadmap.

Launch a new feature

Weekly conversion, pilot stores vs. a matched control group

Lift vs. control—
Significance—
Decision—

Before launch, both groups track each other. That matched baseline is what makes the result trustworthy. Press launch to see what happens next.

Experience

The work

$12M+annual contract value managed across 5+ engagements
$800K+annual revenue from expanding a product into Europe
2d→4hdata processing time after bringing in Snowflake
12+junior teammates mentored and coached

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Mastercard, Data & Services

Arlington, VA · Aug 2022 – Jul 2026

Formerly Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), a business analytics and software company

Associate Managing ConsultantFeb 2026 – Jul 2026
  • Led Menu Analyzer’s expansion into Europe for three clients: market case, requirements with Product and Engineering, and four modules plus a customer analytics tool. $800K+ in annual revenue.
  • Set the roadmap to bring Snowflake into the Test & Learn platform, aligning Product, BizOps and Engineering. Processing time went from 2 days to 4 hours.
  • Designed 6 high-investment SMB credit card acquisition campaigns for a major U.S. bank, then tracked early acquisition and retention.
  • One of four technical experts chosen from across North America for a four-month rotation in London.
  • Ran 5+ concurrent engagements worth $12M+ in annual contract value; supervised 5 teammates and coached 7 more.
Business Experimentation ConsultantMar 2024 – Jan 2026
  • Redesigned a client’s Travel & Expense operating model from 15+ cross-border interviews on a $1.1M engagement. Adopted in 7 countries.
  • Piloted AI investments in loyalty and operations for two restaurant brands. First results in 12 weeks, and both pilots became multi-year contracts.
  • Turned Mastercard’s State of Experimentation survey into an innovation roadmap for retailers: 10+ opportunities, $5M+ in projected sales.
  • Compared click-through, add-to-cart and conversion for limited-time offers on delivery apps to shape a geo-demographic rollout.
  • Drove SaaS adoption in Colombia on an $850K engagement, training 15+ users across 3 client teams.
  • Built the SQL learning path for a buddy program with 300+ annual sign-ups, cutting data engineering hours by 28%.
Associate ConsultantSummer 2021, Aug 2022 – Feb 2024
  • Turned user working sessions into 15+ prioritized enhancements; 5 shipped, supporting $1.8M in annual renewals.
  • Market analysis on digital wallet adoption for a large bank led to a $1M contract and a 15% lift in adoption.
  • Re-architected data flows across four environments with 75K+ lines of SQL, making imports 10x faster.
  • Led 10+ onsite sessions with senior executives across restaurants, retail and financial services.

AmperXGroup

Miami, FL · Jun – Aug 2019

Energy and software solutions across Latin America and the U.S.

Business Analyst InternSummer 2019
  • Shaped the roadmap for CMMS Here, a maintenance app with 230+ users, from 40+ user surveys.
  • Identified 10+ high-potential clients in banking, telecom and government.

Education & Skills

The toolkit

Education

MIT Sloan School of Management

MBA candidate · Dean’s FellowCambridge · 2028

Certificates in Product Management and Business Analytics. AI Builder Space (AI prototyping proseminar). Product Management, Technology, AI & ML, and Entrepreneurship Clubs.

The George Washington University

BBA in Economics & FinanceWashington, DC · 2022

Summa Cum Laude. Presidential Scholar. Dean’s List 2018–2022. Tutor in Game Theory, Regression Analysis and Finance Simulations.

Tools & Skills

Skills

  • Product strategy
  • Roadmapping
  • Go-to-market
  • Market analysis
  • Pilot & launch design
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Data storytelling

Tools

  • SQL
  • Snowflake
  • Tableau
  • Stata
  • A/B testing
  • Claude Code
  • GitHub
  • Jira
  • Confluence

Languages & Citizenship

English and Spanish · U.S. and Bolivian citizen

Off the clock

Beyond the work

A saxophonist playing under warm stage lights

Jazz, always

Blues Alley was a regular stop during my DC years, and jazz is still the soundtrack to most of my work.

Photo: Jens Thekkeveettil, CC0

The Yungas Road carved into a steep, green mountainside in Bolivia

1,500+ rides

A daily Peloton habit, plus Bolivia’s Yungas “Death Road” on two wheels.

Photo: Alicia Nijdam, CC BY 2.0

Balconies of books inside the El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore in Buenos Aires

Always reading

Latin American history, politics and literature.

El Ateneo, Buenos Aires · Nan Palmero, CC BY 2.0

A golf ball on a tee beside a driver on the grass

Golf

The short game is a work in progress.

Photo: Stefanschenkon, CC0

Renzo with fellow employee resource group leaders at the ALPFA Conference in Las Vegas

Giving back

Founded a Latin employee group chapter at Mastercard; volunteered with Junior Achievement and ALPFA.

At the ALPFA Conference in Las Vegas

Contact

Let’s talk.

Building in product, strategy or AI? I’d love to compare notes.

r_lara@mit.edu LinkedIn ↗

Illimani, above La Paz.