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
Who I am

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.

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 ES Madrid DE Mönchengladbach CA Toronto Also worked with Prosegur Toronto HiFi
Beyond the office

From Las Vegas keynotes to national TV in Spain.

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Education

Academic & continuous learning.

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2015 · Executive MBA
Executive MBA
IESE Business School
2-year program
Madrid · Barcelona · Shanghai · New York
es
2021 · MIB
Master in Internet Business
ISDI
Madrid · 1-year program
es
2006 · MSc Eng.
Computer Science Engineering
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
5-year BSc + MSc engineering degree
ca
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.

manu@delgadonieto.com → LinkedIn · /in/mdnieto → Download CV ↓