Leonardo Benedito Toscano is the Founding Partner of Excelia, with a well-established career spanning more than 20 years in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, transformation management, and strategic planning. He served as Finance Executive at several large companies, including Lopes, Grupo Camargo Corrêa, Siciliano, Fun By Net, Phelps Dodge, Alcoa, Pepsi, and Johnson & Higgins, where he led restructuring, expansion, and financial-operations optimization processes.

His expertise spans a broad range of sectors, from industrial to financial, with a strong focus on strategic innovation and value maximization in highly complex business contexts.

In addition to his solid hands-on experience, Leonardo Toscano has a proven track record leading mergers and acquisitions processes, as well as organizational and financial restructurings, always aiming to implement innovative solutions and achieve sustainable results for companies and their stakeholders.

His in-depth knowledge of strategic planning for large corporations and his ability to engage internal and external stakeholders have been fundamental to the success of numerous complex projects.