Edgardo Pablo Lieker
Business Transformation Leader for Environmental Markets
Phone-Whatsapp-Signal-Telegram: +1 (305) 842 7471
eMail: plieker@i-nnova.com / plieker@outlook.com
Date of Birth: July 28, 1968
Nationality: Dual Citizenship (Argentine – German)
Residency: United States of America
Building the Future of Trusted Environmental Markets
Bringing world-class strategic consulting, business transformation and institutional excellence into the future of environmental markets.
CEO | I-NNOVA Environment & I-NNOVA Green Market
A Vision for the Future
The environmental sector is entering a profound transformation. As environmental markets evolve into a fundamental pillar of the global economy, they require more than scientific excellence—they demand strategic thinking, trusted institutions, business innovation and effective governance.
My mission is to help organizations navigate this transformation by integrating executive leadership, strategic consulting and environmental value creation into scalable solutions capable of generating lasting environmental, social and economic impact.
Professional Journey
Throughout more than three decades, I have advised multinational organizations on strategy, governance, digital transformation, operating model redesign and executive leadership.
After building my career within global organizations including Deloitte, KPMG, Siemens, Mercedes-Benz, BASF, PepsiCo and Kellogg’s, I chose to apply that experience to one of the most significant transformations of our time: the evolution of environmental markets.
Trilingual speaker: English – German – Spanish.
CURRENT FOCUS
2022 - Present
CEO & Ecosystem Builder
I-NNOVA Environment
Challenge:
The next decade will redefine how environmental assets are created, verified, financed and traded worldwide.
Today my work is focused on designing and building the organizations, standards, governance models and technological infrastructure required to make that transformation possible
To redesign how environmental markets operate by creating an integrated ecosystem based on scientific evidence, transparency, AI, digital governance and institutional trust.
Vision:
Creating the infrastructure for the next generation of global environmental markets.
Strategic Value Created:
- Environmental asset pipeline exceeding 7 million tCO₂e developed across Latin America, establishing a strong foundation for participation in the emerging high-integrity environmental markets.
- Portfolio of 12 integrated environmental asset development projects structured across multiple ecosystems and jurisdictions within two years, demonstrating the scalability of an end-to-end environmental business approach.
- Integrated environmental market platform established, connecting landowners, investors, corporate buyers and strategic partners across the environmental asset value chain.
- Environmental Business Unit established as a strategic platform integrating sustainability consulting, environmental asset development and commercialization into a unified business model.
- Integrated environmental asset value chain conceived and implemented, bringing together project origination, technical development, environmental asset generation, commercialization and strategic advisory within a unified operating model.
EXPERIENCE
2015 - Present
Managing Partner
I-NNOVA GROUP
Challenge:
To introduce a new management consulting service company for SMB.
Key Achievements:
- Overachieved the financial results of the last 8 years, with an average growing rate of 19%, 200% in 8-year timespan.
- Successfully Managed the P&L evolution from 54%-35%-11% (*) to 37%-32%-31% (*).
- Empowered the I-NNOVA Group business, with three new Business Units in 5 years (I-NNOVA Digital, I-NNOVA Energy & I-NNOVA Environment).
- 40 yearly new C-Level Clients acquisition & retention by my Customer Experience approach.
(*) CSC (Client Service Cost) – OH (Overhead) – EA (Earnings)
2014 - 2015
Country Head
AKTIO - PERU
Challenge:
To lead the start-up of the local operation and positioning of the company.
Key Achievements:
- Successful start-up implementation in 12 months.
- Strong partnership developed with IBM, ORACLE & LENOVO to achieve usd 1.3 Mio sales.
2011 - 2012
Vicepresident
KPMG - COLOMBIA
Challenge:
To move the organization to a reorganized and growing advisory business.
Key Achievements:
- Increased Earnings and reduced Costs through P&L optimization from 61%-37%-2% (*) to 52%-32%-16% (*).
- Improved the Working Capital in USD 2.7 Mio through the DSO Reduction in 30% (50 days)
- Escalate client retention rate to 95%, reversing previous 48% implementing Sell&Do Strategies.
- Repositioned the IT Advisory & Mngt Consulting BU’s to the most recognized Big Four Offerings in the local market through important SAP Implementation Projects & Colombia International Airport Financial Project development.
- Shoot up Revenue generation 75% working as Regional LSP (Lead Service Partner) of SAB Miller (UK-LATAM).
(*) CSC (Client Service Cost) – OH (Overhead) – EA (Earnings)
2008 - 2011
Business Consulting Partner Director
DELOITTE & TOUCHE - PERU
Challenge:
To generate a new era of the business in an organic and sustainable way.
Key Achievements:
- Rocket the Revenue by over 145% and earnings by over 1.600% in a 3-year timespan.
- Shoot up the P&L from 67%-29%-4% (*) to 44%-25%-31% (*).
- Increased the Working Capital in USD 1.6 Mio., Reducing the DSO in 78% (to 40 days),
- Repositioned DTT Consulting from the 4th to the 1st place in the Big Four Advisory market implementing “Cross Selling” & C-Level “Customer Experience” strategies.
- Transformed the business into a proactive, empowered and goal-oriented organization, with over 250 employees, exceeding results and all expectations.
- Generated strong expansion of the LATCO Deloitte Revenues in strategic accounts through my role as LCSP for Pfizer (US), Scotiabank (Canada) and GSK (US) helping clients to growth.
2007 - 2007
Country Manager
BEARINGPOINT - ARGENTINA
Challenge:
To lead the Business Transformation of an established company whose sales results had fallen behind expectations, facing strong resistance from the management team and employees who had become comfortable with the status quo.
Key Achievements:
- Established successfully a new strategic vision and the led it implementation.
- Led the change to a business results company culture.
- Achieved key performance parameters in the first 9 month of the year (Net Engagement Revenue, Bookings, and DSO and exceed of Engagement Gross Margin)
- Restructured running projects and other internal processes, reducing thereby the strain on resources and improving significantly the customer service.
- Repositioned the company image in the focused markets with SAP services.
- Transformed a technology-focused organization into a high performance, customer and service oriented company.
2004 - 2006
Business Consulting Senior Manager
NEORIS - ARGENTINA
Challenge:
To lead a huge change to support the development and sales of a the new SAP Business Unit, building the organization to support this new kind of service and generating the platform to establish the World Class Solutions Business Consulting Services.
Key Achievements:
- Positioned the company in the second tier of the important players of World Class Software Solution Business Consulting company in the local market.
- Designed, developed and implemented the startup of the SAP business consulting practice.
- Achieved 90% year-over-year sales growth and added $5M in new services through focusing aggressive contact strategies and a new sales coverage model.
2002 - 2003
Senior Manager Consulting
GOMEZ LOFFREDDA & ASOC.- ARGENTINA
Challenge:
To lead a full restarting of the Business Consulting Services, that operated without executive leadership for over a year and had lost their sense of purpose and direction. Sales had decreased for two years in a row.
Key Achievements:
- Increased Revenue from zero to $3.2 million in the first year and $4.4 million in the second year by expanding market share and establishing alliance initiatives.
- Hired a new team, developed a strategic planning process and negotiated alliances with prominent world class solution providers to develop referral business.
- Exceeded sales goal by 137% in the first year and 131% in the second year.
1997 - 2001
Manager IT-CRM, BI & Pre, Sales and Aftersales
MERCEDES BENZ - DAIMLER - ARGENTINA
Challenge:
To Lead the development of innovative IT projects for the whole organization and support to the CIO.
Key Achievements:
- Successful Implementation of the DaimlerChrysler Company’s Business Intelligence and Customer Relationship Management Projects at the same time (SAP BW- SAP CRM).
- Successful implementation of the EIS-Business Management system for the Dealers Commercial Network department
- Successful set-up of the DEASY system for the evaluation of Dealers worldwide Standards.
- Project management of “Sales Planning” implementation with SAP-SD (Vehicle Locator – Vehicle Manager).
- Definition of a common IT strategy for the region as a member of the IT-Consolidation Latin America Strategy Team.
- Analysis of the dept’s strategies at the general project level (in common work with the DaimlerChrysler Headquarter in Stuttgart).
1996 - 1997
Manager IT Sales
LABORATORIOS PHOENIX - ARGENTINA
Challenge:
To innovate and implement all the IT requirements of the Sales division.
Key Achievements:
- Implemented a unique Report with all the information of Audit analysis in the pharmaceutical market (DDD, Audit Pharma, Close Up, etc.).
- Redesigned and restructured complete Sales Department information processes.
- Implementation of the “Automation of the Promotion and Sales Force Head Offices”.
1993 - 1995
IT General Coordinator
PepsiCo-Frito Lay - KELLOGG'S - ARGENTINA
Challenge:
To manage and lead the innovation process in the Pepsico takeover process of Kelloggs Company Argentina.
Key Achievements:
- Management of the whole IT division (Strategic planning, cost management, and investment management).
- Coordinated the analysis and implementation of the local system of Invoicing, Stock, Sales, Production and Current accounts as well as the corporate fixed assets, general bookkeeping and bank conciliation of the company in the client-server environment.
- Planned and implemented the telecommunication projects (Dallas-USA).
- Implemented the project “Direct Sales” in Sabritas S.A (Mexico).
- Supported the chilean operation in the AS400 to HP3000 migration.
1993 - 1993
Product Manager
T&G GROUP - ARGENTINA
Challenge:
To innovate and implement all the IT requirements of the Sales division.
Key Achievements:
- Sold usd 400K software for IBM (AS400/S36).
- Repositioned the company image as 2nd tier IBM Software Reseller.
- Designed and implemented new sales and go to market strategies.
1989 - 1992
Salary Administrator/IT analyst
BASF - ARGENTINA
Challenge:
To innovate and implement more efficient processes at the same time to process the salaries of the company members.
Key Achievements:
- Reordered the Salary calculation and preparation process .
- Implemented some colateral excel automation solutions to reduce the monthly salary processing time.
- Implemented some process restructuring in the Human Resources department.
- Successful implementation of the BASF Mainframe solution for Human Capital, accomplishing the migration from IBM S36.
1988 - 1989
Electronic Technician
SIEMENS - ARGENTINA
Challenge:
To innovate and implement all the IT requirements of the Sales division.
Key Achievements:
- Accomplished al the Quality Assurance processes to waranty the raw material to be used on the the production plant.
- Developed the automation of information through all the quality assurance departments.
EDUCATION
1998 - 2002
Bachelor - Information Technology
UNIVERSIDAD ARGENTINA DE LA EMPRESA
I finished my university study in 4 years thanks to the work experience I already had, being able to reach an average of 7.33. It has been an important achievement.
1981 - 1987
Billingual Electronic Tecnician
HÖLTERS INSTITUTE
Thanks to the support of my parents, I have been able to carry out my 6-year high school study with a technical specialization in electronics, more importantly, a bilingual Spanish / German high school diploma.
1974 - 1980
Primary School
INSTITUTO BALLESTER
I have developed my first educational steps in elementary school for 7 years in a fully bilingual Spanish / German environment.
PURPOSE & VISION
Throughout my career, I have learned that meaningful transformation is never driven by technology alone. It is driven by vision, leadership, trusted institutions and the ability to connect people, ideas and organizations around a common purpose.
Today, I am dedicated to helping accelerate the evolution of environmental markets by bringing together strategic consulting, business transformation, institutional governance and environmental innovation.
I believe that the next generation of environmental markets will become one of the world’s most important mechanisms for creating environmental, social and economic value. Achieving that future will require stronger institutions, greater transparency, scientific integrity and business models capable of generating lasting trust.
My purpose is to help organizations, investors, governments and landowners navigate this transformation while contributing to the development of trusted environmental markets that create measurable value for society and future generations.
SKILLS
Strategic Business Transformation
Environmental Markets
Institutional Governance
Environmental Intelligence
Environmental Value Creation
Executive Leadership
Environmental Finance
Strategic Partnerships
EXPERTISE
STRATEGIC BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
Helping organizations redesign strategy, operating models and leadership capabilities to achieve sustainable growth, organizational excellence and long-term competitiveness.
ENVIRONMENTAL
MARKETS
Supporting corporations, investors, governments and landowners in navigating the evolution of environmental markets through strategic vision, trusted business models and institutional development.
ENVIRONMENTAL
VALUE CREATION
Designing business strategies that integrate environmental, strategic and economic value, creating measurable outcomes for organizations, society and future generations.
INSTITUTIONAL
GOVERNANCE
Strengthening governance, transparency and decision-making frameworks that build trust, integrity and resilience across organizations and environmental initiatives.
ENVIRONMENTAL
INTELLIGENCE
Integrating science, technology, data and environmental intelligence to support better strategic decisions and accelerate innovation.
STRATEGIC
PARTNERSHIPS
Building collaborative ecosystems that connect corporations, governments, investors, landowners and institutions to accelerate meaningful environmental transformation.