Clara Strengthens Its Global Leadership Team With Rodrigo Aparicio Schlesinger as Chief Financial Officer

Mexico City, October 3, 2022 - Clara, the leading Latin American platform offering the most complete business spend management solution in the region, continues to strengthen its leadership team with the addition of Rodrigo Aparicio, a professional with extensive experience in the financial sector.

Rodrigo Aparicio Schlesinger is a finance specialist with a long professional career at multinationals such as 3M, where he served as Finance Leader for multiple subsidiaries in the region and also led financial operations for the Americas. During his time at McKinsey & Company, he led strategic efforts at multiple banks, financial institutions and fintech companies. His experience has been complemented by leadership roles in business, product development and strategy, skills that will contribute to his role as Chief Financial Officer at Clara, where he takes on the challenge of leading the controlling, operations and financial planning, treasury and capital markets teams globally.

“Since its launch and in record time, Clara has positioned itself as one of the most relevant B2B solutions in Latin America and is in a position to consolidate itself, even beyond the region, as the CFO's allied platform and a benchmark in corporate spend management,” said the executive. “In addition, Clara has become one of the few companies that continue to awaken the appetite of global investors during one of the most challenging economic moments for the sector, demonstrating that it has a solid business model and broad confidence in its execution capacity,” highlighted Aparicio.

“It is our aspiration to become one of the first Mexican startups to list on the stock exchange, since we have consolidated a leadership team that will allow us to achieve that goal, so in the coming months we will continue strengthening the foundations to begin our path in that direction,” he concluded.

In the last year, Clara has strengthened its leadership team with prominent profiles in the industry who have extensive experience in the financial sector, which recently earned the Latin American company financing from Goldman Sachs and is part of its strategy to strengthen operations in Mexico and continue consolidating its products in Brazil and Colombia.

“The global reach our solutions are gaining leads us to bet on adding some of the most prominent profiles in the industry. We are very proud to continue diversifying and growing Clara's leadership team to keep contributing to the sustainable development of the region through our products, which have already been adopted by more than six thousand companies in Latin America,” concluded Gerry Giacomán Colyer, CEO and co-founder of Clara.

Clara launched to market with an initial offering of corporate credit cards in 2021 and in less than a year has expanded its portfolio through digital solutions that combine a business spend management platform and a payment product that has begun to be rapidly adopted by mid-market and enterprise segments, thanks to a set of unique elements such as its value proposition, product adaptability, portfolio diversification and solid financial and technology models.