Carlos Lau

Carlos Lau

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Co-founder & CEO
Lima Province, Peru

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    Advisor @ Digital, Product & Growth
    Sep 2019 - Mar 2021 (1 year 7 months)
  • Kurios
    Founder & CEO
    Kurios
    Jan 2019 - Current (6 years 6 months)
    KURIOS (YC backed) provides Cohort Based Training and Fractional Teams for companies in Latam, delivered by tech veterans from companies like Stripe, Amazon, Uber, etc.
  • Utec Ventures
    Managing Director
    Utec Ventures
    Jan 2017 - Oct 2017 (10 months)
    UTEC Ventures is a tech startup accelerator focused on Latin America. Advised 50+ startups on all things: Product, Growth, and Execution.
  • Banco de Crédito BCP
    Advisor @ Digital, Product & Growth
    Banco de Crédito BCP
    May 2018 - Jan 2019 (9 months)
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    Advisor @ Product & Growth
    Multiple Startups
    Jan 2017 - Current (8 years 6 months)
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    Operations Manager @ Growth, Product & Execution
    Uber
    Jul 2015 - Dec 2016 (1 year 6 months)
    + Early-stage Uber employee (4th member of the founding team). + Contributed to the massive city growth in more than 60x from the company early stage. + Successfully launched and scaled Product UberDOST, the 3rd Uber App: a referral app to support professional referrers, making it the top growing acquisition and conversion channel for new supply. Expanded the program to the LatAm markets. + Led the supply growth efforts and leveraging referrals, virality, and engagement efforts. + Contributed to team building. + Cross-functional collaboration with global Product Management, Design, Product Ops, Legal and Operation teams in the US, LatAm (Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Brasil, Argentina), India, China, South East Asia and EMEA.
  • Amazon
    Product Marketing Manager MBA Intern
    Amazon
    Jun 2014 - Aug 2014 (3 months)
    +Analyzed market opportunity for launching wireless carrier plans on used cellphones sold through Amazon Marketplace. Estimated market size, built revenue projections, determined operational requirements, coordinated with third party vendors and performed feasibility analysis +Recommended improvement in UX to increase product discoverability and customer buy flow, leading to a projected 7% incremental revenues
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    Financial Advisor
    CredicorpCapital
    Nov 2010 - Jul 2013 (2 years 9 months)
    +Stock markets advisor in Fixed Income, Stocks, and Mutual Funds, for the MILA, Latin American Integrated Market – composed by Chile, Colombia and Perú – for medium and high net worth customers. +Lead an entrepreneurial project pilot to develop a new wallet of customers from the ground up. Co-develop a sales channel and lead with informal authority a team of 14 employees. +Attracted 50+ new investors and reached USD $40M+ in AUM in two years of operations.
  • Banco de Crédito del Perú
    Business Banking Relationship Manager
    Banco de Crédito del Perú
    Jun 2008 - Oct 2010 (2 years 5 months)
    Banco de Crédito – BCP is the largest commercial bank in Perú by assets and market capitalization, with more than 15,000 employees and USD $828M in operating revenues in 2011. Responsible for a portfolio of 120 small and medium sized business customers mainly in Real Estate and Infrastructure sector (35% of the portfolio). Worked in industries such as: Healthcare, Technology, Energy, Fishing, Import and Exports, Textile, Customs Agents and Retail. Responsible for indicators as: share of wallet, credit loans growth, profitability, sell of cash management products, delinquency and customer satisfaction. Managed one employee, leading and coaching toward goal achievement, increasing credit loans portfolio by 60%, from USD $3.5M to USD $5.6M,
  • Banco de Crédito BCP
    Business Banking Associate
    Banco de Crédito BCP
    Jul 2006 - Jun 2008 (2 years)
    Responsible for assisting the Relationship Manager with team goals, disbursement and collection of loans, control, financial reports, analyze financial statements and assist in the elaboration of credit proposals. Coached 3 new Associates. Promoted to Relationship Manager after only 2 years.
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    MBA, Entrepreneurship, Tech and Innovation
    Texas McCombs School of Business
    Jan 2013 - Dec 2015 (3 years)
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    Bachelor of Science (B.S, Major in Business Administration
    Universidad de Piura
    Jan 1999 - Dec 2005 (7 years)