About

Marden Neubert

I'm Marden Neubert, a technology executive with more than 25 years in payments, banking, e-commerce and internet businesses. I founded MVLM Technology in 2022 to advise companies on technology strategy, organisation design and software architecture.

Marden Neubert

Most of my career was in Brazil's internet and fintech sector. I started as a software engineer at UOL, Brazil's leading internet company. I later led its research and development department, ran its e-commerce businesses and was CEO of its cross-border payments subsidiary. From 2016 to 2022 I was CTO of PagSeguro (now PagBank). I built its technology organisation to more than 2,000 people. I also led the technology side of its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, and of its expansion from payments into banking, lending, insurance and investments.

The hardest problems I faced as CTO were never technical. They were about getting thousands of people to change how they work, and keeping a company committed to a change that takes years. That is the work I do now.

Where I am now

I live in Sydney, where I am completing the Full-Time MBA at AGSM @ UNSW Business School (2026 to 2027). I came to AGSM to add strategy, finance and negotiation to the technology side I already know. Leading a transformation means making the investment case and keeping a board committed for years, not only designing the target architecture.

In 2026 I won Pitch Perfect, the AGSM Career Accelerator's career narrative and pitch competition.

I take on advisory work with organisations in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, and I am open to conversations about senior transformation roles.

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What I bring

Skills

  • Leading large technology and architecture transformations
  • Organisation design for technology teams, including Team Topologies
  • Technology strategy and its link to business strategy
  • Software architecture and platform modernisation
  • Payments and fintech platforms, including cross-border payments
  • Scaling engineering organisations through fast growth
  • Agile methods at scale (Scrum, Kanban, Lean)
  • Technology due diligence and acquisition evaluation
  • IPO readiness and regulated environments
  • Executive hiring and team building
  • Mentoring technology leaders

Interests

  • Leading organisational change

    Why large transformations stall, and what leaders can do about commitment, resistance and momentum over a multi-year programme.

  • Sociotechnical design

    How the structure of teams shapes the structure of systems, and the reverse.

  • Generative AI in software delivery

    How domain modelling and AI tools can shorten the path from a business idea to working software.

  • Cooperation between product and technology

    Treating product ownership as a business role, not a technology one.

  • Pattern languages

    Writing down what experienced leaders know in a form others can reuse.

Education

  • 2026 to 2027Master of Business Administration (Full-Time), AGSM @ UNSW Business School, Sydney
  • 1998 to 2000Master of Science in Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
  • 1994 to 1997Bachelor of Computer Science, UFMG, Brazil
  • Executive education: Innovative Technology Leader, Stanford University (2017); Product Management, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business (2016); Business Administration, Columbia Business School (2008)

Languages

English (fluent), Portuguese (native), Spanish (intermediate).