Taktile welcomes Ricardo Barbosa as Senior Account Executive to accelerate growth across Brazil and Latin America

We're excited to announce a major milestone in Taktile’s Latin America expansion: Ricardo Barbosa joins the team as our first Senior Account Executive in the region, based in São Paulo.  

Ricardo will lead Taktile’s enterprise sales expansion across Latin America, where financial institutions are turning to AI to enhance and streamline their most critical operations—from credit underwriting to fraud detection. He’ll play a pivotal role in empowering banks and fintechs to automate and optimize their highest-stakes decisions with agentic AI.

Ricardo brings over 15 years of experience building and scaling enterprise partnerships across global banking, payments, and fintech. Before joining Taktile, Ricardo served as VP LATAM at Volt.io, where he led regional expansion efforts for the company’s real-time payments infrastructure. Prior to that, he spent over four years at Adyen, partnering with major enterprises to modernize their payment operations.

Ricardo also brings an entrepreneurial mindset, having co-founded a consumer data analysis startup and served as CEO of Omegaworks, an IT infrastructure company powering the growth of Brazil-based businesses. A multi-faceted leader combining technical fluency with proven go-to-market execution, he holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP) and an MBA in Information Technology from Brazil’s Foundation Institute of Administration (FIA).

“I’m excited to help Brazilian banks and fintechs unlock the value of agentic AI in their most critical decision processes,” says Ricardo. “We’re already seeing local customers achieve impressive results with Taktile.”

Ricardo’s arrival marks an important milestone in Taktile’s Latin America growth strategy. 

AI adoption in Latin America comes with unique regulatory and operational challenges. Success requires partners with deep regional expertise and a collaborative mindset. Financial institutions are looking for partners with deep regional expertise and a proven commitment to solving problems collaboratively. 

“Ricardo knows the LATAM market inside out, and he’s built meaningful relationships with banks and fintechs across the region,” says Taktile Co-Founder and CEO Maik Taro Wehmeyer. “Our approach isn’t to come in with a one-size-fits-all playbook. It’s to understand each institution’s unique challenges, and make sure they have the right tools to achieve their goals. Ricardo embodies that philosophy, and we couldn't be more excited to have him on the team.”

As financial innovation in Latin America continues to thrive, there’s a demand for smarter decision infrastructure that helps companies operate more efficiently, better serve customers, and keep risk and compliance in check as they scale.

Ricardo provides some insight: “The Brazilian market is becoming increasingly competitive in banking and payments. For companies who want to stay ahead, deploying agentic AI safely provides a massive opportunity to automate high-stakes decisions at scale.”

He continues, “Simultaneously, the Central Bank of Brazil has tightened compliance standards, requiring banks, fintechs, and VASPs (Virtual Asset Service Providers) to evolve their KYC and AML operations from one-time entry hurdles into continuous monitoring processes.”

Ricardo is excited to partner with forward-thinking teams across Latin America who are ready to transform how they operate with AI.

Whether you’re working to enhance credit decisions, reduce fraud, strengthen AML compliance, or streamline onboarding, connect with Ricardo to discover how your team can unlock the potential agentic AI.