Chief Information Officer · Madrid, Spain

Business first.
Engineer at heart.

I lead technology organizations where business comes first and technical depth is what makes execution real. 9+ years as CIO across three industries, reporting to CEO. Building teams with industry-lowest turnover, shipping transformation that moves P&L, equally comfortable in the boardroom and in the stack.

Case · Vecttor (Cabify Group)

Scaled ×13 in 6 years.
Built the stack that made it possible.

<300 drivers → 4,000+ · €200M
Leadership
9+
years as CIO
18+ in Tech
International
3
countries worked in
Spain · Germany · Canada
Scale
×180
revenue growth at Vecttor
€200M reached · in 6 years
Team
<5%
turnover across departments
industry-lowest · highest eNPS
§01 / Profile

An executive who thinks business, builds like an engineer.

Manu Delgado Nieto, CIO, Madrid

I lead technology organizations where technology is a strategic lever of the business, not a back-office. My starting point is always the business problem: P&L, customer experience, operational efficiency, competitive advantage. The stack is the means, not the point.

That said, I'm not a gestor-only CIO. My background is Computer Science at UPM and I've never let the technical depth rust. When a critical issue hits production at 2am, I know what the telemetry is telling us. When a vendor oversells, I can tell. When the team debates Kubernetes, databases or a genAI architecture, I'm in the room as a peer.

That dual fluency (boardroom and stack) is what my track record is built on: three industries (mobility, media, retail), scale from 300 to 4,000+ payroll employees, teams with the lowest turnover and highest eNPS in their companies, and transformation projects that actually shipped and moved numbers.

§02 / Experience

Selected experience since 2006.

Feb 2025 Now

Chief Information Officer, Spain

Groupe Afflelou · Retail · Optical · 380+ stores

Member of the Executive Committee, reporting to the CEO. Full Technology P&L ownership across Product, Engineering, Data, Infrastructure and Cybersecurity. Leading a 30+ person team through a deep transformation: Agile/OKR adoption, infrastructure consolidation, resolution of 7-year stalled strategic projects, and genAI-based IT support rollout.

Business P&L ownership ROI-driven prioritization 7-year projects delivered Stack Salesforce POS · multi-site Azure genAI
Oct 2018 – Oct 2024

Chief Information Officer

Vecttor (Cabify Group) · Mobility · Ride-hailing · Madrid

Member of the Executive Board, reporting to the CEO. Created Product, Engineering, Systems, Data and Processes from the ground up. Scaled from a 300-employee startup to 4,000+ employees in payroll, €200M revenue, positive EBITDA in a complex regulatory environment. Led a 25-person team with <5% turnover (industry-lowest) and highest employee satisfaction scores. Designed the full stack: Azure with Kubernetes & datalakes, ERP as core, IoT (telemetry, mobile access, mobile POS), ATS with genAI for recruitment (−60%+ hiring cost), custom apps, BI with predictive analytics.

Business 13× frontline headcount growth €200M revenue −60%+ hiring cost EV transition Stack Azure · Kubernetes IoT · Telemetry genAI CPO · eMSP Predictive BI
Apr 2016 – Sep 2018

Chief Information Officer

elEconomista.es · Media · Financial publishing · 13M monthly uniques

Member of the Executive Management Team, reporting directly to the General Manager. Led Systems, Development and Production. Primary focus: unifying the two previously siloed technical areas of the company into a single organization, a structural change that enabled everything that followed. Defined the digital transformation strategy: Cloud migration, Big Data, digital workplace, CRM, Marketing Automation, GDPR. Unified disaggregated customer data into a single repository, significantly improving advertising sales.

Business Org merger · 2 tech areas Ad revenue uplift Change Management Stack Cloud migration Big Data CRM · Marketing Auto. GDPR
2006 – 2016

Earlier career

Consulting & Business Development · Madrid · Mönchengladbach · Toronto

Client accounts on MAPFRE, Santander, Santander Consumer Bank (Germany) and Reale: innovation and transformation projects, customer journey design, process mapping and change management. Delivered +25% cross-selling through a new sales process at MAPFRE. Business Development at Toronto HiFi (Canada): +22% sales, −60% stock. Technical Coordinator at Prosegur on the Metro de Madrid project.

Geography 🇪🇸 Madrid 🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach 🇨🇦 Toronto Also worked with Prosegur Toronto HiFi
§03 / Presence

From Las Vegas keynotes to national TV in Spain.

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§04 / Education

Academic & continuous learning.

2015 · Executive MBA
Executive MBA
IESE Business School
2-year program
Madrid · Barcelona · Shanghai · New York
2021 · MIB
Master in Internet Business
ISDI
Madrid · 1-year program
2006 · MSc Eng.
Computer Science Engineering
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
5-year BSc + MSc engineering degree
2011 · IELP
Intensive English Language Program
Brock University
St. Catharines · Canada · Merit Award
Certifications
& credentials
PMI-ACP · Agile Practitioner HCMBOK · Change Management TOEIC · 970 / 990
Get in touch

Let's have a conversation.

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