Carolina Vacas
Consultant
During her academic career at the Nova School of Business and Economics, she joined the Nova Social Consulting club, where she had the opportunity to work for the first time with third sector organizations. Developed strategy projects as a junior consultant and team leader and collaborated with B Lab in its launch phase in Portugal.
Carolina began her professional career at EY (former Ernst & Young) as a financial advisor, integrating the Valuation, Modelling and Economics team. Performed evaluations of companies and individual assets, developed feasibility studies, business plans and reviews of business models, closely following various sectors from a financial perspective.
After her experience at EY, she wanted to develop skills in organizations oriented towards a social impact and, for 6 months, volunteered at THE NGO MOVE (in Azores), where she supported entrepreneurs to develop their local businesses and gave training related to entrepreneurship.
To redirect her professional career in order to contribute to a better world, she returned to EY, where she played the role of consultant in the Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) team, having participated mainly in sustainability strategy and reporting projects, with international and multidisciplinary teams.
At Sair da Casca, Carolina integrates strategy projects, ESG performance and sustainability reporting.
Graduated in Management and master’s in finance from Nova School of Business and Economics.