In over 25 years of management consulting and international investment banking, Rodrigo has successfully advised from board members of global corporations to aspiring startup founders working from their dorms. "The Big Zero", his finalist book for the 2020 Business Book Awards, unites these two worlds, teaching how to imbue the zero-based mindset in an organization to achieve startup speed on a global enterprise scale. Rodrigo is also an entrepreneurship instructor at Bayes Business School (UK) and startup mentor in several accelerators/incubators in Portugal and the UK.

His expertise includes:
Strategy and business models
M&A (pre-deal valuation, operational due diligence and post-merger integration)
Zero-Based Budget (ZBB)
Target Operating Model
Organizational design
Financial restructuring
Startup mentoring and angel investment

Rodrigo holds a postgraduate degree from the Harvard Business School (USA) and an MBA and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Brazil), one of the top 10 global think tanks.

Rodrigo is a true globetrotter: born in Brazil, married to a Greek-Australian, with two English children, he has dual Brazilian-British citizenship and speaks Portuguese, Spanish and English fluently after living in Europe (Portugal, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Russia and Ukraine), North America (USA and Canada) and Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Guatemala).

In his spare time, he can be found underwater exploring reefs, wrecks and caves around the world or teaching friends how to dive safely.