Rafael is a specialist in risk modelling, project valuation and analytics across a wide range of industries, although his background is from the oil & gas industry, with Petrobras. Rafael previously worked as a senior trainer & consultant at Palisade, the makers of the @RISK software, and has delivered consulting and training in more than 25 countries, in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

He has expertise in the areas of risk management and quantitative risk analysis, valuations, cash flow, CFaR, the pricing of derivatives and options, building forecast models with regression, time series, neural networks and machine learning, Monte Carlo simulation, stochastic optimization, and decision trees.



He holds an MBA in Finance, Investment and Risk, an MSc in Mechanical Engineering, a BSc in Mechanical Engineering, and is a Certified ERP (Energy Risk Professional, by GARP).