Summary
Lucas Lopes is a growth-oriented technology and product leader with 8 years of experience scaling consumer fintech and credit solutions across Brazil and the UK. Currently President at Mercado Bitcoin Brazil, he has a track record of leading large engineering, product and data organizations—having managed teams of 60–150 people and platforms serving 20M+ monthly active users. He rebuilt declining product lines into growth drivers, led app-first digital transformations, and launched high-impact propositions including Brazil’s leading debt collection marketplace and top-5 finance apps. His background spans product, technology and M&A, combining strategic GTM thinking with hands-on delivery in payments, authentication and fraud prevention. Based in São Paulo with an MBA from FGV and early-career roots in consultative sales and marketing, he blends commercial instinct with technical fluency. A former mobile engineer by training, he retains a developer’s mindset when shaping scalable, user-centered financial products.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Higher Education Business Administration in Marketing, Diploma of Higher Education Business Administration in Marketing at ESPM Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing
Master of Business Administration (MBA) CEAG / FGV-EAESP
Administração e Negócios, Master of Business Administration (MBA) CEAG / FGV-EAESP
Administração e Negócios at FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas
Portuguese, English, German