Edgardo Pappacena has over 35 years of global business experience and worked in 50+ countries throughout his career. As a senior partner in PwC, he held executive leadership roles at global, regional, and country levels, in addition to his client service responsibilities.

He has consulted with multinational companies in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia, advising C-level executives in corporate and business strategy, business model innovation, digital transformation, geopolitical risk management, organizational strategy, and mergers & acquisitions. He has advised companies such as Federal Express, WPP Group, Hewlett Packard, McDonald’s, Royal Dutch Shell, Honeywell Aerospace, Target, Chrysler, AT&T, Publicis Groupe, General Electric, TMF Group, Nielsen IQ, Singapore Airlines, Tata Consultancy Services, Telefónica, Petrobras, FEMSA (Mexico), Petróleos de Venezuela, and eClerx. 

As a member of PwC’s global leadership team, he was the firm’s Chief Global Strategist responsible for leading PwC’s global strategic positioning and alignment, strategic acquisitions, global brand strategy, digital transformation, and geopolitical risk management across 150+ countries around the world. Additionally, as the firm’s Business Model Innovation Leader, he led the transformation of PwC’s business model and delivery strategy by building a 20,000-people global team and developing digital and service delivery capabilities that leveraged PwC’s global footprint across India, China, South East Asia, North and Latin America, and Eastern Europe. 

Prior to PwC, he was a partner at Arthur Andersen, where his leadership roles included Global Managing Partner of Strategy & Business Transformation and Managing Partner of the Latin America Business Consulting practice. 

Currently, as CEO of Cani Investments LLC, he translates global macro trends into strategic advice and investments encompassing traditional market securities, alternative investments, and angel investing in digital startups. He also acts as a board member in private and start-up companies and as a senior investment advisor to private equity firms. 

He is an adjunct professor of strategy & international business at Florida International University’s Graduate School of Business, where he has won the awards for Best Professor and for Best Course in the Executive MBA program for six straight years as business audiences find his insights very relevant to their real-life challenges in a complex global environment. His executive courses — ‘Global Trends in Geopolitics & Economics’, ‘Strategic Thinking in the Digital Age’, ‘Business Model Design & Innovation’, and ‘How to Think like a Consultant’ — focus on critical thinking skills for business practitioners by exploring strategic topics at the intersection of macro geopolitical, economic, and technological dynamics. His insights and points of view are regularly featured in multiple US and international media outlets. 

Mr. Pappacena holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Beta Gamma Sigma honors) and a degree in Economics & Accounting from the University of Buenos Aires (academic honors). He has completed post-graduate global strategy, international economics, and global leadership programs at the Harvard Business School, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. He holds a Certificate in Corporate Governance from the Directors’ Consortium, a joint program of the University of Chicago, Stanford, and Dartmouth Schools of Business.