Rodrigo is the EY Global Innovation AI Officer. He leads the innovation efforts on AI, co-chairs the LLM center of excellence, and leads the AI startup ecosystem.

Prior to the EY organization, he led business incubation at eBay Europe, developing 0-1 products for the core marketplace. And earlier in his career, at Skype, he was the Chief Product Strategist and GM of Product Design, delivering 3 consecutive years of 100% YoY product-led growth in revenue, profits and new users.

He graduated with a computer science degree from MIT and a PhD from UC Berkeley and has patents for 3 inventions made while at eBay and Skype. In the formative part of his career, he was a developer at Oracle and designed new products at other technology giants.

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