Paulo Vila
Technology executive and hands-on platform architect. 30 years designing, selling and delivering large multi-country technology programs across McKinsey, BCG, Carrefour and Mastercard — and today CEO and lead architect of a local-first, multi-agent AI platform written in Rust, running five production applications on one shared core. Over a decade at Mastercard scaling an innovation practice across Latin America: 10X growth in strategic engagement value, 5X revenue for Labs as a Service, 60+ client projects at 90%+ satisfaction, $100M+ in platform revenue, and 100+ C-suite design sprints that turned architectures into signed programs. The rare combination of the executive who owns the client relationship and the engineer who writes the runtime, in one person. M.S. Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes.
Professional Experience
Founded ImagineOS: 5 live AI apps, $0/query inference (on-prem GPU), 13 agents in 9 months, zero-shot NLP pipeline (GLiNER/GLiREL/GLiClass), MCP bridges, sub-ms IPC, automatic HA failover.
VP at Mastercard Digital Labs: 10X strategic engagement growth, 3 new innovation hubs, local LLM agents cutting workshop delivery by 90%+, 100+ C-suite sprints across LatAm.
Innovation Director LatAm: 5X revenue growth, 60+ projects, 90%+ CSAT, first blockchain credit card, 3 President's Awards.
Owned full-lifecycle merchant consulting across Andean and Caribbean markets, from business development to delivery.
Senior Managing Consultant Mastercard: $100M+ B2B platform in 18 months, enabled 1M+ user neobank launch.
Partners in Performance: $20M annual earnings swing (–$10M to +$10M) in 6 months at a Latin American mine.
Earlier Roles
Apr 2011 – Aug 2013 · Senior Consultant, Hay Group (now Korn Ferry) — $200M expansion roadmap
Oct 2009 – Mar 2011 · Sales Development Director, Carrefour — 200+ professionals led
Mar 2009 – Sep 2009 · Software Development and Consulting Manager, Simplexity — 2-yr-late projects rescued
Apr 2008 – Mar 2009 · Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) — $30B+ merger
Apr 2006 – Mar 2008 · Associate Consultant, McKinsey & Company — $20M+ synergies
Jan 2006 – Present · Founder & Owner, Top Level Executives — 60K-member community
Sep 2001 – Apr 2006 · CEO & Founding Partner, data2web.com — 6 enterprise systems shipped
Feb 2000 – Sep 2001 · Chief Technology Officer, La Nota Económica — New revenue lines created
Jan 1998 – Sep 1999 · University Professor, Universidad de los Andes — 5/5 teaching evals
Jan 1998 – Dec 2000 · GMAT Instructor, Kaplan
Sep 1996 – Dec 1997 · Marketing Specialist, ROCHE — 13K+ doctors covered