When organizations translate disruption into disciplined operating models and capital choices, value follows.

Felipe Smolka

Global Client Service Partner, EY Americas Automotive and Mobility Leader

Trusted adviser to CEOs and boards on large-scale transformation, operating model reinvention and enterprise value creation across automotive and mobility.

With more than 20 years of experience across automotive, mobility, and industrial sectors, Felipe helps leaders become agile in a capital-constrained, software-led environment. He has led complex, multi-year transformation efforts across North America, Europe and Asia.

Felipe advises clients on operating model reinvention, digital and platform strategy, capital allocation, and strategic transactions, including ecosystem partnerships and M&A. His approach is pragmatic and value driven, grounded in a clear understanding of how regulatory pressure, geopolitics, technology shifts, and competitive dynamics reshape economics across the mobility value chain.

His deep experience spans vehicle and mobility transformation, electrification, software-defined platforms, and connected services, focusing on operating models, margin structure and disciplined capital deployment. This perspective helps organizations align technology ambition with economic reality and execution capacity.

Felipe holds an MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School and a BS in Electrical Engineering, complemented by executive education at Harvard Business School and Wharton.

How Felipe is building a better working world

Felipe works with CEOs and boards to translate disruption into clear operating model and capital allocation decisions. He helps organizations identify where value is shifting across their business, decide which bets to double down on or exit, and execute transformations that deliver measurable economic returns. That clarity allows leaders to move forward with confidence, even amid uncertainty.

 

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