As Chief Business Officer for all operations in Europe, Fernando oversees Globant’s expansion in one of its most vital markets. He is directly involved in crafting the company’s strategy while building relationships with clients and stakeholders.

With over twenty years of experience in the software services industry, Fernando started his career in leadership positions at multinationals such as Volkswagen, Oracle and Telefónica. He joined Globant in 2009 to help expand its international reach. Over the next decade, he was directly involved in executing a successful IPO —the first Latin American software company to do so— to its consolidation today as a global pure play in technology solutions with operations in 30 countries throughout the world.

He led the company’s efforts in the United States, while working from coast to coast to develop Globant’s teams to deepen their relationships with clients for long-term transformational partnerships which was key to Globant’s core business. Fernando and his team empowered the company’s high-performance client pods to deliver concrete and transformational results to companies that include Google, Electronic Arts, Rockwell Automation, and many more.

Today, Globant has an edge in the most competitive technology ecosystem in the world, with Fernando as one of the architects behind the company’s 360 transformational perspective to leverage technology for the digital age.

Fernando is an active proponent of Globant’s cultural values of diversity and inclusion, and has participated in podcasts and forums on the issue to highlight their importance for the company and its ecosystem of stakeholders. Most recently, he has joined the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering as a board member.