# Claudio Esposito Aiardo

> Commercial growth executive, entrepreneur, angel investor and advisor with experience across payments, fintech, SaaS, analytics and mobility. Currently leading Mastercard's Analytics & Business Intelligence growth strategy across EEMEA after building and scaling businesses at Google, Sprinklr and Carasti.

Site: https://claudioespositoaiardo.com
Based in Dubai, UAE. Works globally.

## Areas of expertise
- Commercial Strategy
- Business Growth
- Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Payments
- Fintech
- Customer Analytics
- Experimentation
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Revenue Operations
- Retail Growth
- Banking
- Mobility
- Subscription Economy
- Entrepreneurship
- International Expansion
- Angel Investing

## Roles
- Vice President, Specialist Sales, Services Business Development — Mastercard (present)
- Founder & former CEO — Carasti (vehicle subscription, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand)
- Commercial leadership — Google, Sprinklr, Gartner (two-time Global #1 Sales Performer)
- Angel investor and advisor — fintech, AI, SaaS, mobility, marketplaces, data & analytics

## Pages
- [Home](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/): Overview of Claudio's work across growth, data, entrepreneurship and investing.
- [About](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/about): Career narrative in four chapters, plus an interactive timeline.
- [Insights](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/insights): Thought leadership pieces on growth strategy, banking, AI, data and scaling.
- [Media](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/media): Press coverage and interviews.
- [Speaking](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/speaking): Keynote topics, formats, speaker bio and enquiries.
- [Advisory & Investing](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/advisory): Advisory, board and angel investment focus areas.
- [Contact](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/contact): How to get in touch.
- [Full profile](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/about-claudio-esposito-aiardo): Complete professional biography with Person schema.
- [Entity profile](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/who-is-claudio-esposito-aiardo): Who is Claudio Esposito Aiardo — structured entity overview.

## Insights articles
- [Why Most Growth Strategies Fail](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/insights/why-growth-strategies-fail): Growth plans fail when activity is mistaken for impact. A five-stage evidence loop that helps executive teams separate incremental growth from demand they already had.
- [The Future of Banking Growth in an AI World](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/insights/future-of-banking-growth-ai): Banks will not grow by bolting AI onto existing products. A practical model for improving customer decisions across acquisition, engagement, credit and retention.
- [What Startups Teach Enterprises About Speed](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/insights/what-startups-teach-enterprises-about-speed): Startups are not fast because they lack controls. A practical decision architecture for large organisations that want velocity without losing governance.
- [Why Customer Data Is the Most Underutilised Asset in Business](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/insights/customer-data-underutilised-asset): Most companies do not have a data shortage, they have an activation gap. How to move from dashboards to decisions, with a framework for turning data into measurable value.
- [Building a Culture of Experimentation](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/insights/building-culture-of-experimentation): Organisations rarely lack opinions. They lack a fair, repeatable way to find out which ideas create value. The LEARN framework for executive teams.
- [The Rise of Intelligent Personalisation](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/insights/intelligent-personalisation): Personalisation fails when it is built around what the company wants to sell. The RIGHT framework for interactions that are relevant, incremental and genuinely useful.
- [Scaling Across Borders](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/insights/scaling-across-borders): International expansion is not replication. Lessons from scaling a mobility business across four markets, plus a market-entry scorecard for executive teams.
- [The Subscription Economy Beyond Streaming](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/insights/subscription-economy-beyond-streaming): Subscription works when access beats ownership for the customer and the economics hold for the operator. Lessons from building an asset-heavy subscription business.
- [Building High-Performance Commercial Organisations](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/insights/high-performance-commercial-organisations): What separates commercial teams that perform for a quarter from those that perform for a decade: clarity, operating rhythm, enablement and honest forecasting.
- [What AI Really Means for Growth Leaders](https://claudioespositoaiardo.com/insights/what-ai-means-for-growth-leaders): Most organisations are adopting AI without redesigning the decisions it should improve. A practical view on where value is real, where it is overstated, and what leaders should do.

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## Attribution
Content authored by Claudio Esposito Aiardo. Views are personal and do not necessarily
represent the views of current or former employers. When citing, please link to the source page.