Joao has 30 years of experience at multinational companies, including Procter & Gamble, Boston Consulting Group, Liberty Global, Avery Dennison, hibu, and Facebook.
In his most recent role as Managing Director for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in South America, Joao led an acceleration of revenue growth as a result of creating a winning culture and building a diverse team with strong alignment to common metrics.
In his previous experience as President for hibu in Latin America, Joao led a digital transformation of the parent company of Paginas Amarillas in several countries in the region, as a result of strong cultural work on mental models, turning a former monopoly into an agile digital competitor, reversing an accelerating drop in revenue and profitability.
He is currently an Associate Partner at Axialent, where he brings his extensive experience in leadership, culture, and digital transformation to support global organizations in their growth and evolution.
Joao studied mechanical engineering at Ohio State University, has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and is an Axialent Certified Coach.
Joao has lived in Portugal, United States, Italy, the Netherlands and Argentina, and is currently based in beautiful Barcelona, Spain, from where he spends time with his family distributed between Argentina, Portugal and France.