Etienne Cartolano
Partner CEO ACT Nexus at CACO
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolEtienne Cartolano is a technology executive and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building and scaling AI-driven products, teams, and research programs across finance, academia, and industry. He has led large transformations at Banco Itaú—growing data science from 10 to 300+ practitioners, launching the bank’s experimentation platform and an AI Red Team—and successfully spun out and exited an AI prototyping studio. With a Sloan Fellows MBA from MIT and a doctorate in Computer Engineering from USP, he blends deep technical research (including postdoc work in AI) with board-level strategy and venture-building. Today he leads ACT Nexus to industrialize advanced analytics and unlock new revenue streams while continuing hands-on AI research at Veritas Automata and teaching applied architectures at FIA. Notably, he co-founded major corporate-academic initiatives (C2D, ICTi) that secured multi‑million-dollar research partnerships and scaled national research capacity—evidence of his ability to translate scientific investment into real business and societal impact.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Grad Student, Grad Student at UMass BostonPostdoc, Artificial Intelligence, Postdoc, Artificial Intelligence at USP - Universidade de São PauloDE, Information Technology, DE, Information Technology at Centrale LyonMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInstituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (4)
ecartolano/BIOL-653-CARTOLANO-ETIENNE
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 days
tdwg/citizen-science
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Citizen Science Interest Group
Contributions:47 commits, 1 PR, 45 pushes in 20 days
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