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.

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 Latin Employee Resource Group in our Arlington, Virginia office.

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

Map: Natural Earth

  1. 01La Paz lit up at night below snow-capped Illimani

    La Paz, Bolivia

    Home

    Where I grew up, under the Illimani mountain.

    Photo: Bolivia Hop

  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, at dusk, with light trails on Key Bridge

    Arlington, VA

    2022 – 26

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

    Photo: John Brighenti, CC BY 2.0

  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

    Selected work

    Things I’ve built

    MIT Sloan AI Builder Space · 2026

    CMMShere AI Scheduling

    The right technician, on the right day, for every maintenance job.

    An AI scheduling assistant for CMMShere, a maintenance management platform. For every asset it recommends who should do the next job and when, explains why, and creates the whole batch of work orders in one click.

    How it works
    The problem
    When a new maintenance period starts, the platform could only copy the last one: same technicians, same gap between visits. Nothing checked who was free, overloaded or experienced with that equipment.
    What it does
    For each asset it picks a technician by experience and workload, and a date from the asset’s own history, skipping weekends and holidays. The dispatcher reviews, adjusts anything by chatting with the built-in assistant, then creates every work order at once.
    What it achieves
    The speed of a one-click batch with the judgment of scheduling each job by hand, built for the small and mid-sized maintenance teams that enterprise tools price out.

    Film: real screens from the app, with customer names changed.

    • Python
    • Flask
    • CMMShere API
    • Claude

    Hack-Nation Global AI Hackathon

    Understudy

    An AI apprentice that learns from your experts, and teaches everyone else.

    A voice assistant that works alongside a team’s go-to expert, captures how they make decisions, and turns it into a step-by-step Work Map that coaches new hires on the job.

    How it works
    The problem
    Every team has an expert everyone goes to with questions. Their judgment lives in their head, not in a manual, so it walks out the door when they leave, and new hires learn by interrupting them.
    What it does
    A voice assistant works alongside the expert. It asks about their day-to-day decisions at the right moment, or records quietly so they can talk it through later. It then turns what it learned into a Work Map: every step of the job and the reasoning behind it, in the expert’s own words.
    What it achieves
    New hires learn from the expert’s own screen, step by step, and mistakes are caught before they’re saved. Stuck on something? They leave an open question, and the right expert answers it once for everyone.

    Built for the ElevenLabs challenge “The AI Apprentice”. Film: real screens from the app, with demo data.

    • ElevenLabs
    • Claude
    • Electron
    • React
    • TypeScript

    Experience

    The work

    $12M+annual contract value managed across 5+ engagements
    100+experiments measured across pricing, operations and marketing
    $800K+revenue opportunity from expanding a product into Europe
    12+junior teammates mentored and coached

    Mastercard, Data & Services

    Arlington, VA · Aug 2022 – Jul 2026

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

    An analytics dashboard with a trend line and pie chart on a laptop screen
    Photo: Lalmch, CC0
    Associate Managing ConsultantFeb 2026 – Jul 2026

    Led the Europe expansion of a transaction-analytics product, localizing it with Product and Engineering and taking 3 pilot clients from data setup to insights for an $800K+ revenue opportunity. Set the roadmap that brought Snowflake into our Test & Learn platform, cutting data processing from 2 days to 4 hours.

    Designed an SME credit card acquisition campaign for a major U.S. issuer and identified the usage drivers to target future campaigns, which led to a follow-on engagement. Managed 5+ engagements worth $12M+ a year, mentored 12 teammates, and was 1 of 4 North American experts picked for a 4-month rotation in London, UK.

    Business Experimentation ConsultantMar 2024 – Jan 2026

    Measured the impact of 100+ experiments in pricing, operations, inventory and marketing for banks, retailers and restaurant brands, and turned the results into rollout and investment calls for senior leaders. Two AI proofs of concept for restaurant clients delivered first results in 12 weeks, and both became multi-year contracts.

    Uncovered a 15% usage lift in a bank’s digital wallet that led to a $1M follow-on contract, built a model to predict the impact of a large bank’s small-business events, and onboarded a major Colombian card issuer onto our SaaS platform ($850K engagement), training its teams onsite in Spanish.

    Associate ConsultantSummer 2021, Aug 2022 – Feb 2024

    Turned user feedback into 15+ prioritized product enhancements that shipped 5 features and supported 5 license renewals, and rebuilt transaction data flows with 75K+ lines of SQL to make imports 10x faster. Surfaced 10+ retail testing opportunities from Mastercard’s State of Experimentation survey, projected to drive $5M+ in sales, and led 15+ onsite sessions with senior executives.

    AmperXGroup

    Miami, FL · Jun – Aug 2019

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

    High-voltage transmission towers silhouetted against a sunset
    Photo: Kkiefuik, CC BY 4.0
    Business Analyst InternSummer 2019

    Shaped the product roadmap for CMMS Here, a maintenance management platform that helps companies plan, assign and track work orders across their equipment and technicians.

    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: building an AI agent with Claude Code that recommends technician assignments for maintenance work orders by skill, location and workload. 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
    • Claude Code
    • Snowflake
    • A/B testing
    • Conjoint analysis
    • Tableau
    • Stata
    • Salesforce
    • GitHub
    • Jira
    • Confluence

    Languages & Citizenship

    English and Spanish · U.S. and Bolivian citizen

    Beyond

    Beyond the résumé

    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 the Latin Employee Resource Group in Mastercard’s Arlington, Virginia office; 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.

    Illimani, above La Paz.