



Our History
Four friends in a bar. That’s how our story began back in 2003. They shared a common dream that we still pursue: to become the best company in delivering profound transformations for organizations, while generating global career opportunities for IT professionals throughout the world.
2003
Globant was founded by Martin Migoya, Guibert Englebienne, Martin Umaran and Nestor Nocetti.
2004
We opened our offices in UK
2005
We were named Endeavor Entrepreneur.
2006
We opened our first office outside Buenos Aires, a development center in Tandil, the first milestone towards creating a decentralized company which brings opportunities closer to the talent.
2008
We acquired two companies to deepen specialization in Microsoft Technologies (Accendra) and Infrastructure Services (Openware). Closed a financing round with Riverwood Capital and FTV Capital.
2009
We created our Studio model to deepen our expertise on latest practices and technologies.
2010
Gartner Inc. named Globant a “Cool Vendor,” in its Cool Vendors in Business Process Services 2010 report.
2011
We closed an investment round with Riverwood Capital and FTV Capital. We acquired San Francisco-based Nextive to expand our expertise in Mobile technologies.
2012
We acquired Brazil-based TerraForum to reinforce our expertise in innovation and global footprint. Globant disembarked in Antarctica to develop software in the most southern continent in the world.
2013
We celebrated our 10th Anniversary on all our sites.
2014
We did our IPO at the NYSE, with shares traded under the symbol "GLOB."
2015
We acquired Clarice Technologies, an innovative software company with operations in India.
2016
We launched the book: "The Never Ending Digital Journey". We acquired WAE, to expand our operations in London and New York, and L4 Digital to reinforce our position as a leader in digital services.
2017
We were recognized by IDC Marketscape as leaders in digital customer experience and acquired Ratio for strategy in the US and the technology agency Point Source
2018
Two great launches, StarMeUp an operating system for organizations and the book "How to Embrace Artificial Intelligence".
2019
We acquired Avanxo, a leading cloud transformation company, and Belatrix, strengthening our positioning in digital and cognitive transformation.
2020
We acquired gA, to reinforce leadership in digital and cognitive transformation, and BlueCap to strengthen consulting services in the financial sector. We launched our Globant Awards and Augmented Coding.
2021
We grew our Globant family and reached the 20k Globers. We acquired CloudShift, Habitant, Walmeric, Atix Labs and Navint.
2022
We became the Global Platform Supporter of FIFA+, and Regional Supporter of FIFA World Cup™. We arrived in Poland, Germany, Italy and Australia. We acquired Genexus, Sysdata, eWave, ad_bid, Nescara and KTBO.
Management Team
Martin Migoya
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Martin has been an entrepreneur since his early youth. In 2003 he founded Globant together with 3 friends, with the aim of building a Company leader in the creation of innovative software products.
Martín has served as Chairman of our board and Chief Executive Officer since 2005. As Globant CEO, Martín drove the company from a small start-up to an organization with more than 27,000 professionals and a presence in more than 25 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Today, Globant is working for world-class customers such as Google, Electronic Arts, Rockwell and Santander, among others.
Martin is deeply passionate about inspiring future entrepreneurs, that´s why he frequently gives lectures at different events and has been a jury at the Endeavor Entrepreneurs panel and at La Red Innova. The MIT Sloan School of Management wrote a business case about Globant entitled: “Globant, Leading the IT Revolution in Latin America”, and invited Martin to give lectures to their MBA students. Harvard and Stanford also wrote business cases to study the company.
Globant has become the first software development company from Latin America to do an IPO on the NYSE, in 2014. It was recognized as one of the top 10 innovative companies in South America by Fast Company and was named as a worldwide leader in Digital Strategy and Agency Service by IDC MarketScape (2016 and 2017).
Martín was selected Endeavor Entrepreneur 2005 and has won a Konex Award as one of the most innovative entrepreneurs of 2008. He was selected as one the Argentinean Creative of 2009 (Círculo de Creativos de la Argentina). In 2011, Latin Trade has also recognized Martin as Emerging CEO of the Year. He is a member of the Young President´s Organization (YPO), a Board Member of Endeavor Argentina, member of AEA, member of Argentina’s Production Council and was recognized with the Entrepreneur of the Year award by Ernst & Young (2013). He co-authored two book entitled “The Never Ending Digital Journey” and “Embracing the power of AI” where he shares his thoughts on how technologies are changing the world and how brands need to adapt to lead this revolution.
Martín holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from La Plata University and a Master degree in Business Administration from CEMA University.
Guibert Englebienne
Globant X President, Latam President & Co-founder
Entrepreneurship is in Guibert’s DNA. He has been programming since he was 12 years old and creating everything from video games to home tech solutions. Prior to co-founding Globant, he had already started six different companies, bringing with him the experience of learnings and failures therein. As President of Globant X, Guibert helps lead the success of these initiatives focused on analyzing new revenue models and allowing us to continue to innovate. In addition, as President of Latam he ensures corporate governance and drives our regional expansion and industry leadership.
Globant was born through Guibert and his co-founders’ vision that technology development can be done anywhere in the world, a vision that has propelled them to incorporate diverse talent to create innovative solutions for the world’s top brands. On 18 July 2014, the team walked up to the New York Stock Exchange, dressed in Globant green for the company’s IPO. Guibert remarked: “when a team believes everything is possible, nothing is impossible.”
Also as chairman of Endeavor Argentina, whose goal is igniting entrepreneurship among the new generation, he is frequently invited to talk about innovation at events including Tedx, Communicating the Museum, La Red Innova, and Innotribe.
Patricia Pomies
Chief Operating Officer
As Globant’s operations leader, Patricia is responsible for sustainably growing the company’s operations, and enabling it to execute its strategy with maximum value for clients and stakeholders. Recognizing the importance of the organization team members’ (internally known as Globers') well-being, training, and skills development, Patricia's responsibilities have been expanded to strengthen synergies between Delivery, Performance, People, and Operations.
She is in charge of annual operational planning and overseeing that the organization's objectives are aligned to these purposes to develop Globant’s sustainably. She also focuses on turning strategy into actionable targets for growth, helping to implement organization wide goal setting, and performance management.
Her role has become even more complex as the company has grown to what is today a publicly traded company of 27,000 people working in 25 countries worldwide. To rapidly scale up the company from startup to multinational, Patricia and her team were the architects of Globant’s secret sauce of agile pods. This industry-disruptive approach gave more autonomy and resources to company teams, putting them at the center of the organizational framework. On May 2022, she was recognized as one of the Top 50 COO by the 2022 OnCon Icon Awards.
Patricia is an advocate for having more women in management positions, recognizing the gender gap in the tech industry, for this reason she has an active participation in Globant’s Women that Build program. She was one of the architects behind the company’s Be Kind initiative, encompassing development areas in gender equality, technology ethics and renewable energy, among others.
Patricia came to Globant with a background in education and communications, having taught at four universities and having managed educational programs to empower the next generation of leaders with modern and technological skill sets.
Diego Tartara
Chief Technology Officer
Diego is CTO of Business Hacking, in charge of the development of the Studio, its value proposition and overall strategy.
Diego joined Globant in 2008 as a leader for a development group. He quickly took the Technical Director role for one of Globant’s major account, a leading gaming company. He was then appointed as Studio Partner for Gaming, a position he held for over five years. He also run the IoT studio for a year and was part of the team that started the Discover studio before being appointed as CTO.
Diego has more than 15 years of experience developing small, mid and large scale software. With strong background in desktop, embedded and backend development and love for C/C++, gaming and graphics.
Fernando Matzkin
Chief Business Officer Europe
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 21 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.
Nicolas Kaplun
Chief Business Officer North America
As Chief Business Officer of North America, Nicolás runs and oversees all aspects of Globant’s most important market, including business development strategy, team building and management, and client relationships. He also collaborates on Globant’s global strategic initiatives.
Prior to joining Globant, Nicolás served as CEO & Managing Director in the financial services division at Accenture, where he led sales for the Hispanic South America region. He also held executive roles at world-class companies such as Citibank, Zurich, Telefónica, and Korn/Ferry International. His experience leading innovative companies across industries is fully aligned with Globant’s mission to provide real value to clients by transforming their businesses.
Nicolás holds a degree in business administration from Universidad de Belgrano and pursued postgraduate studies in finance at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
Tania Salarvand
Managing Director US
Successful global business executive with over 20 years’ experience working with large B2B organizations on developing and executing commercial and operational strategies. A track record of building and inspiring global teams that drive business outcomes. Strategic thinker - strategies for growth - communication and change management - defining value propositions - capturing insights from customer experiences / behaviors.
Specialties: strategy & execution, team capability development, communication (presentation skills), facilitation, business case development, strategy (planning and implementation), sales & marketing, project management (PMP certified), business model innovation (tools, methodology, strategies).
Dariyus Setna
Managing Director US
Dariyus Setna is EVP & General Manager of Globant's US West Region and is based in San Francisco Bay Area. He has the overall responsibility for driving Globant's Strategic Growth, Client Relationship Management across multiple industries, Business Operations and P&L Management of the West Region. He is a results-driven Executive with a proven track record over a 27-year career of delivering profitable revenue growth through innovative solutions that drive tangible business results for clients. Dariyus has considerable experience in building robust businesses from the ground up, developing strong and diverse leadership teams, and successfully managing large, globally distributed operations and teams.
Prior to joining Globant, Dariyus served in multiple Executive Management and leadership roles in companies like Cognizant, Ernst & Young, and Capgemini. As a successful entrepreneur, he founded and grew a Consulting firm focused on providing Executive/Operations Consulting services to Global 2000 clients.
Ariel Capone
Managing Director US
As Regional Managing Director, Ariel is passionate about using technology as a catalyst for disruption. He began his career in the Consumer Goods industry, later shifting to the Life Sciences & Healthcare industry. Ariel has led several projects partnering with pharmaceutical companies to transform the way they optimally engage their consumers, moving towards personalized medicines.
Ariel holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires and has an Executive Management degree from the University of San Andrés in Argentina. He is a frequent speaker at Life Sciences seminars and roundtables, and frequently contributes to prominent publications such as Forbes, ComputerWorld, Nearshore Americas, CNN and El Nuevo Herald, among others.
Martin Umaran
Co-Founder & Chairman for EMEA at Globant
Together with his three partners, Martín founded Globant as a startup in 2003 in Buenos Aires and has been responsible for driving Globant's growth, ensuring its global reach. Today, Globant (NYSE:GLOB) is a world leader in digital and cognitive transformation, with a presence in 25 countries and over 27,000 professionals.
Martín is a member of Globant's Board, where he leads the Mergers and Acquisitions area. Since 2020, he has served as Chairman for EMEA, contributing to and leading the region's growth.
Deeply involved in the entrepreneurship ecosystem through Globant Ventures, he is an entrepreneur and mentor of the Endeavor network, where he is an active contributor. He is also an active participant in Business 20 (B20) and was Co-Chair of the 2018 and 2020 editions of the Education and Employment Taskforce.
He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universidad Nacional de la Plata.
Wanda Weigert
Chief Brand Officer
As Chief Brand Officer, Wanda leads the global team of marketing, digital strategy, external & internal communications, pr and corporate communications professionals focused on positioning Globant as a digitally native company that helps organizations reinvent themselves and unleash their full potential.
As Executive Director, Wanda accompanies the growth and development of Globant in Argentina based on fundamental values such as diversity and inclusion. She is responsible for developing and promoting the company's strategy in the country with the aim of continuing local growth and development, providing world-class opportunities for argentine talent.
Wanda started her career as a senior consultant when Globant was a group of only 100 people. Has actively participated in the growth of Globant since it was a small startup to become the first Latin American IT company to be listed on the NYSE and be one of the 5 original unicorns in Argentina.
She has a Bachelor of Communication from the Universidad Austral and completed postgraduate studies in Marketing at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.
Juan Urthiague
Chief Financial Officer
As Chief Financial Officer, Juan Urthiague oversees Corporate Finance, Treasury, Accounting and Tax, Financial Reporting, Financial Services, and Investor Relations. Juan was appointed as CFO in October 2018.
Before joining Globant, he worked as Planning Manager for Amadeus IT Group in Spain and as Senior Credit Specialist in Merrill Lynch in Ireland and also held financial roles for companies like British American Tobacco, Ternium, and IBM.
Juan joined Globant in 2011 and was a key member in the company´s global expansion and transformation into a publicly listed company in NYSE. During 2017 he spent 15 months outside Globant serving as CFO Latam for OLX and as CFO for avantrip.com.
Juan has an MSc in Finance and Capital Markets from Dublin City University and Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Juan is a native Spanish speaker and is fluent in English and Portuguese.
Pepe Chamorro
Marketing Director Globant Create
Pepe has been an entrepreneur from a young age. In 1996, he set up his first company Digital Bubble. After four years, he sold it to the Delvico Bates Group and created Digital Bates, probably one of the most knowledgeable stages.
Digital Bates quickly positioned itself as one of the three largest interactive agencies in Spain, taking home the Digital Grand Prix at the El Sol Festival, with one of the most important clients, Telefonica / Movistar.
In 2001, he joined 141 Worldwide as General Manager, working with clients such as Telefonica / Movistar, BAT (Lucky Strike), Ballantines, Beefeater, ONCE, Mahou, and Schweppes. From 2003 to 2005, he was the General Manager of Delvico. In 2005, he assumed the position of General Manager of JWT Spain and member of its European Digital Council, working with clients such as Unilever, and Johnson & Johnson Grupo Modelo.
He participated in the first Cyber Lions jury at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity in 2001. That same year he was President of the Interactive Jury at the El Sol Festival in San Sebastian.
In January 2014, he left JWT and started a new stage, creating his own company with his partners. They immediately signed an agreement with Omnicom to use the Tribal brand, and so far, they continue to develop this project.
Sebastian Jespersen
CEO Vertic, a Globant Company
Sebastian Jespersen is an innovator, a business strategist, and a breakthrough digital thinker.
He founded the independent digital agency Vertic over a decade ago; today it has a footprint on three continents and serves some of the world’s best-known global marketers and brands. Both a digital guru and evangelist, he has successfully taken a start-up from the birth of the online marketing era through to the advertising world’s new internet playground. All while shepherding Vertic to extraordinary year-on-year growth and profitability. Clients include Microsoft, SAP, GE, Novo Nordisk, Paypal and GSK.
Sebastian’s pre-Vertic years as a management consultant in Europe and Asia underscore a multinational, analytical problem-solving vantage point, in contrast to common creative or technical leadership found at most ad agencies today. His interpretation of social business, data, targeting and the bridging of marketing to sales - as well as his revolutionary application of this understanding to new platforms like LinkedIn - makes him a leader in today’s fast paced, complex marketing world.
His book on Entangled Marketing got published in the spring of 2016, and is co-authored with the ‘Godfather of Direct Marketing’, Stan Rapp, Co-Founder and CEO of Rapp & Collins and a young copywriter during the original Mad Men era.
Isa Goksu
Chief Technology Officer UK
An executive leader with strong hands-on technical experience. A pythonista, gopher, hacker and an innovative technologist with over 21 years of industry experience mainly in Finance, but also in Retail, Telco, and Travel. Solid executive relationships and stakeholder management with C-suite. Led various enterprise level digital transformation programmes, managed very large teams and delivered many mission-critical projects from both onshore and offshore. He is an outcome-oriented individual and a strong advocate of pragmatism, Lean and Agile. A faithful believer in system thinking, design thinking and empowerment that comes with intelligent insights. He truly believes data beats opinion! He is particularly focused around the innovation within the enterprise culture, adoption of AI/ML, Blockchain/Distributed Ledgers and evolving interactions such as voice and haptic engines.
Sebastian Miserendino
Chief Technology Officer Latin America
Sebastian Miserendino brings over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He joined Globant in 2009 and developed his professional career occupying various technology leadership roles.
As Chief Technology Officer for Globant’s Latin America market, Sebastian has consistently delivered cutting-edge solutions empowering organizations to reinvent their businesses and industries through innovation, while also driving strategic business expansion throughout the region.
Adept to inspiring cross-functional teams and fostering collaboration, Sebastian combines technical acumen with strategic vision to bring the very best of Globant to Latin America´s clients.
Ignacio Iglesias
Chief Business Officer Globant Latin America
Argentine, married and father of a son, Ignacio has studies in Business Administration at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina and a master's degree in Marketing at the Universidad de San Andrés, also in Argentina. He has more than 15 years of experience in business development, consulting, business strategies and leadership in multinational companies. In 2019 he decided to embark on his path in the technology industry, understanding that it is the sector that transforms the world.
He first led the Accenture operation in Peru and two years later he landed at Globant, the most thriving unicorn in Latin America, which in 2021 alone invoiced more than 1.3 billion dollars.
After leading Globant's strategy in Peru for a year - achieving a growth of more than 100% at the local level, opening offices and operations in Lima and Arequipa respectively, and leading the firm to be the most attractive for young professionals in the country – was appointed Managing Director of the Pacific Region, leading the operations in Chile, Peru and Ecuador.
Currently, he leads the strategy throughout Latin America, a region from where he actively works for internationally renowned companies such as Google, Electronic Arts and Santander, among others.
Federico Pienovi
Chief Business Officer Asia, Middle East and Oceania
Federico is Globant’s Chief Business Officer for Asia, Middle East and Oceania. He designs and implements the company’s strategies in each region with an objective for expansion.
Previously, Federico led as the CBO for Europe and under his leadership, the region grew organically with the acquisition of world-class companies, such as Bluecap, Habitant, Walmeric, Cloudshift and Sysdata. Additionally, he managed to open new offices in Madrid and Málaga. He also had a crucial role in Globant’s arrival in Germany and Poland.
In the past, he was also managing director for several financial services clients in New York, playing an instrumental role as one of the architects of Globant's vision and value for its partnership with JPMorgan Chase. In addition, he ensured the successful development and delivery of products for digital content, big data, web applications and user experience. Federico is a Globant veteran, with over a decade of experience with the company, and has a background in the Engineering and the Energy and Telecommunications sector.
Fatima Said
Managing Director eWave, a Globant Company
An entrepreneur by nature, Fatima launched her first business at the age of 16, building eCommerce Inc. from the ground up to become the fifth largest provider of eCommerce services in the US within four years of operation.
Alongside completing her Masters in Information Technology, Fatima has developed 18 years of business and technology experience, launching hugely successful startups across Europe, USA and the APAC region. Today, Fatima is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of a group of companies that focus on commerce, with businesses across solution delivery, product development, cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence sectors.
As Co-Founder and Managing Director of eWave, Fatima has overseen the agency’s growth from its foundations to become a cross-continental commerce powerhouse. In the process, she has earned a globally-respected reputation for driving revenue, guiding business digital transformation, and enabling growth across markets for the world’s leading organisations at speed.
Diego Maldonado
Managing Director of Adaptive Organizations
At Globant, Diego Maldonado serves as Managing Director of Adaptive Organizations, leading the Studios responsible for the enterprise applications implementation services, including Salesforce.com, SAP, ServiceNow, Oracle, UiPATH, and others.
Diego served as CEO and founding partner of Avanxo, a pioneer in Cloud Computing technologies in Latin America, which was acquired by Globant in 2019. Since 2003 he has been spearheading the processes of adoption, digital transformation, and application of Cloud technologies throughout Latin America’s most prominent companies. Prior to founding Avanxo, Diego was employed by Compaq Computer Corporation in Houston, where he was in charge of the Financial and Telecommunications divisions for Latin America. He began his professional career in Accenture’s Advanced Technology systems group in New York and was involved in the implementation of technological solutions in companies in the financial sector in the United States, Asia, and Europe.
Diego is a Manufacturing Engineer from Boston University, with a Master's Degree in Mechanical and Robotic Engineering from Columbia University in New York.
Ignacio Cantalupo
Chief Capacity Officer
Ignacio Cantalupo is Globant’s Chief Capacity Officer, in charge of the overall strategy of Recruiting and Staffing worldwide.
Ignacio Joined Globant at the very first stage of the company, being one of the first employees. Ignacio served at different management roles throughout the last 14 years at Globant: VP & Business Unit Managing Director, VP Operations, Delivery Manager, Program Manager, Area Manager and Creative Director.
Ignacio has worked in the IT industry since 1997 embracing an entrepreneurial spirit as co-founder of two startups before joining Globant.
Nestor Nocetti
EVP Corporate Affairs & Co-founder
As co-founder, Néstor leads Globant's relationships with governments, chambers of commerce and civil society to continue expanding the company’s global presence, as well as advocating for the tech sector as an engine for development in emerging markets.
During Globant’s infancy, Néstor was responsible for the operational development and delivery to ensure the young company met its objectives for non-stop growth. His background in the hard engineering sciences, having worked on energy projects throughout Latin America, gives him executive clarity to assign the right resources to meet the right objectives.
His role grew as he developed Globant’s signature human workforce platform: Glow. The platform enables Globant to match the skill requirements for a given project’s scope with the company’s resource pools, building high performance teams with the dynamic mixture of skills for each product development need. The tool has been recognized in the InfoWorld Awards in 2009 as one of the best IT projects of the year.
Recognizing the need for building talent from the ground up, Néstor is an advocate for educational systems empowering the next generation of professionals. Additionally, he takes an active role in passing on his expertise in entrepreneurship to the community, emphasizing the role of teamwork in building successful companies by speaking at many renowned universities and business associations. While Néstor loves all things tech, he recognizes the necessary human element in creativity, passion and innovation to make it work.
Together with his three fellow Globant co-founders, Néstor was recognized as an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2005. He holds a degree in electronic engineering from the National University of La Plata and a title in business direction from IAE Business School.
Benjamin Murray
Marketing Director UK
At Globant, Benjamin is responsible for Alliances & Marketing at our UK Salesforce Studio as well as advising on global strategy.
Benjamin has 25 years’ experience in marketing and digital cloud platforms and was a co-founder of CloudShift before it was acquired by Globant in 2021. The Salesforce Studio now has almost 2,500 Trailblazers and Benjamin focuses on evolving and strengthening relationships with Salesforce and delivering GTM campaigns and DemGen events in partnership with Salesforce and the wider Globant business, especially across our Enterprise Platform Studios.
Sebastián Arriada
Chief Information Officer
As Chief Information Officer, Sebastián is responsible for leading Globant's IT transformation to accelerate the company's growth through agility and a Globers-centric approach. His experience in leading cutting-edge CloudOps and cybersecurity services and his goal-oriented and data-driven expertise is essential for the role he’s actually performing.
Sebastián joined Globant in 2006 as Network and Security Engineer until 2009. Later, he worked in ATT and Citrix and returned to Globant in 2019. Until his recent appointment, he was Globant’s CloudOps & Cybersecurity Studio Partner where he worked to improve the value and offering of the Studios through existing and new practices.
He holds an Information Systems Engineering degree from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN) in Argentina, a Master in Strategy Management and Technology degree from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA) in Argentina & EOI Business School in Spain, and is a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAAD) alumni.
For ten years, Sebastián was a professor at the UTN, where he taught a subject called “Web Technology and Business.” And he also speaks German and loves sports such as basketball and handball.
Verónica Giménez
Chief People Officer Americas
With more than 14 years at Globant, Verónica Giménez has developed her professional career occupying various roles related to talent management. Entering the company when there were only 800 Globers (collaborators) based mainly in Argentina, Veronica witnessed and directly contributed to the growth and expansion of Globant as a fundamental member of the team that supported the consolidation of the Staffing and Recruitment area in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay, and then throughout the world.
As Chief People Officer in the Americas, Veronica leads the People teams in North America and Latin America. Thanks to her capacity for permanent reinvention, during these years at Globant, Veronica achieved significant milestones that are still part of our company today: the creation of the Talent Manifesto, the development of the Increased Recruitment tool, among others. Last year, to enhance her business acumen, she completed an executive MBA.
Shivraj Sabale
Country Head, India
Shivraj has over 18 years of experience working with Businesses to drive ground up Digital Transformations focusing on Leading Edge technologies as well as transformative digital journeys. Entrusted with the following responsibilities on the way:
-Leading the growth of India Centre with a focus on Capacity generation and Business Development and working with an amazing team to ensure top notch delivery while constantly looking to keep the available talent relevant. Working with multiple Business Units to forecast and plan for the growth of various verticals.
-Building technical organisations from ground up with focus on building Practices and Capacity management
-Exploring technical strategies and trends and ensuring their adaptation and adherence in an measured manner
-Experience Delivering and handling multiple projects using Agile Development and Delivery.
-Managing Onshore teams and multi-site teams in Development, Quality Assurance, Operations and Support -Managing complete Site operations and working on a strategic plan to grow the site -Expertise in planning and implementation of SCRUM -Worked in Web Application Security, and Android and Tablet domain Project Delivery and Storage
Carolina Dolan Chandler
Chief Digital Officer
As Chief Digital Officer, Carolina leads Globant’s internal digital transformation. She is also in charge of establishing a cross-company data strategy and overseeing the adoption, development, and implementation of digital technologies across the organization ranging from the company’s homegrown applications to industry standards such as Salesforce, SAP, Success Factors, and more.
During her 15 years within Globant, she has occupied different roles such as Global Marketing Director where she focused on crafting and executing a cohesive and data-driven marketing strategy that effectively supported our sales team. This included the development of some of our key initiatives such as Converge, the Tech N Fest and more.
Prior to her role in Marketing, Carolina built a career that started on the technical side as a software engineer and eventually technical lead, eventually evolving into a role as a Client Partner where she managed client relationships and served as a liaison between the clients and Globant’s technical teams to ensure client satisfaction. Her overall experience has allowed her to work with companies such as Google and Electronic Arts, on different branches of the software industry itself such as software for the retail industry, governmental applications, e-commerce platforms and the entertainment industry.
Mercedes MacPherson
Chief People Officer EMEA
Mercedes MacPherson has been working in the Human Resources area within the IT industry for 19 years. She is focused on helping companies grow by defining talent initiatives in different markets. She is responsible for talent development, people management, organizational climate, and culture in her current position, forming and leading high-performance teams for the EMEA region for this purpose.
For the last 11 years, she has been working for Globant. Throughout her career, she has led multidisciplinary teams in various geographies such as Latin America, the United States, Europe, and India. She has held crucial roles on a regional and global scale. Her experience has spanned the Recruiting area. Within the People area, she served as People Champions (HRBPs) & Rewards Manager and Talent Development and Career Manager.
Mercedes has a degree in International Relations; she began her International Relations and Commerce studies at the University of Northern Colorado (USA) and finished them at the Universidad de El Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She taught at the University of Palermo for the Human Resources Management Career of the London School of Economics.
Mercedes speaks three languages, Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Mercedes is passionate about her work, and she is committed to diversity and Inclusion issues, creating exceptional work environments with an emphasis on people and their well-being. Her work in Human Resources was recently recognized by the Gerente Magazine (Colombia) for leading projects such as Be Kind, Women that Build and Code Your Future.
Sabina Schneider
Chief Solutions Officer
Sabina Alejandra Schneider is Chief Solution Officer for the Latam region, leading complex ecosystems that combine technology, design, data, and culture. As a former Consulting Partner and Big Data Studio Partner at Globant, Sabina focuses on delivering transformation programs by breaking down big business challenges into actionable elements to achieve a shorter time to market with continuous delivery. She helps companies achieve their goals and build relevant relationships with end clients through data-driven, rapid, and dynamic technology solutions.
Sabina is an expert in Agile methodologies, development, and big data strategies, and has spoken at several industry events including the Medellín Hackathon, the London Big Data Breakfast, the Bogotá Big Data Hackathon, and the AWS Big Data Breakfast Summit in both Sao Paulo and NYC.
Vivian Sauksteliskis
Chief Delivery Officer
Vivian was born in Uruguay and moved to Argentina in 2006 after graduating as a Computer System Engineer. She joined Globant in 2007 as a Business Analyst. Her second assignment was for El Tiempo, one of the first Globant clients in Colombia, where she became the manager of the project one year later. That project and its multiple challenges (huge fixed price project with a new client and the first project working together with the first Globant acquisition company- Accendra) prepared her for her nexts projects within Globant: Comcel, BSI, Tenaris, Gilbarco and trained her holistic point of view including delivery - finance - people and processes always into the equation. In 2014, when the Studios turned into BUs, she proactively offered herself as a controller of one of the BUs, taking care of the multiple KPIs, process adherence, analysing all the information for decision making, and assuring all the accounts team have everything in place to focus on their clients.
In 2016, when 50squared program was launched, she was involved in the transformation within Globant impacting structure, processes, tools, assignments, finance and maturity framework and allowing her to work with the most strategic roles of the company. During that time, she also changed the PM onboarding program in Globant, got her Counselor degree and started to work as a therapist after working hours.
Working together with Technology in the TL Maturity made her realise that Tech and Operations are stronger working together and participated in the idea of the creation of the Agile Delivery Studio, where she works at the present.
Nowadays, she is mainly focused on DeliveryManagement, account strategy and her role within the studio. Vivian is also the VP Operations, Ops Controlling manager and focuses on Globant financial KPIs achievement and efficiency, continuous improvements and the integration of Delivery with People.
Nicolás Ávila
Chief Technology Officer North America
As the CTO for Globant’s largest market, Nicolás Ávila leverages Globers’ technical expertise to find the most innovative solutions for the world’s top companies. Globant’s ambition for reinventing the professional services industry is executed on a daily basis by understanding a client’s business model and goals, and bridging the gap with the latest technologies available from its studios of expertise to create exponential and sustainable solutions. Nicolás and his team therefore approach their work not by walking the aisles of Globant’s offices, but the offices of the clients to integrate the workforces and find better solutions together.
His experience with Globant has led him to live and work in seven cities on transformational projects for some of the company’s top clients in banking, retail, hospitality and media and entertainment. With over a decade of experience in software engineering, Nicolás came to Globant after leading technology teams at Motorola and HP in various areas including Java, .net, Perl and Oracle. He credits Globant as a platform for professionals not just to work on projects but to perform transformations for the industries themselves. To do so, he believes in autonomy and empowerment as a tool to attract and foster the best talent.
Valeria Abadi
SVP Brand Global
At the age of 23 Valeria graduated with a degree in Psychology with an Honors Diploma and at the same time studied Journalism.
She began her career in the Human Resources area of Edenor, a natural position for a psychologist in the organizational environment. A few years later, she became HR and Communication Manager for Electricité de France - the largest electric power company in the world - for the Americas (United States, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina). Those years were key to get to know the communication model of French companies and developing intercultural management skills.
Her interest in getting to know another industry led her to join the Arcor Group, where she has had the opportunity to develop different areas and roles. She spent 16 years there and in the last 6 years, she led a team of professionals in Institutional Communication, Internal Communication, Media, Advertising, Social Networks, Market Research, and Licensing.
Since 2022 she joined Globant, another Argentine company with an extraordinary innovative drive and has the challenge of leading the Marketing & Communication area for LATAM.
Her passion for communication transcends the corporate environment, which is why she is motivated to be part of institutional spaces such as the Argentine Advertising Council and the Dircoms Circle. For the last few years, she has found in teaching an enriching and gratifying environment that allows her to share experiences and continue learning.
Patricio Pablo Rojo
General Counsel
Pablo Rojo has been Globant’s General Counsel since October 2021. He has the overall responsibility of supervising the functions of Globant´s Legal and Compliance department. He had already held this role from 2013 to 2018. Before his return to Globant, he spent almost 3 years as external counsel, assisting Globant with several transactions and critical initiatives.
Before joining Globant in 2013, Pablo worked as a corporate and banking law associate at the law firm of Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal from 2002 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2013. Between 2006 and 2007, he was an International Associate at the New York office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Pablo has a law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina “Santa María de los Buenos Aires'' and has completed post-graduate studies in law and economics at Torcuato Di Tella University.
Diego Schargorodsky
Executive Vice President Latin America
With over 30 years of experience in the technology industry, Diego is responsible for leading Globant's collaboration with various companies and governments in the region to carry out their digital transformation, helping them rethink their business models using technology, design, and engineering to scale rapidly and efficiently.
With a degree in Engineering from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, he previously worked at internationally renowned companies such as EDS, Hewlett-Packard, and DXC Technology, before joining Globant where he has been leading operations in the southern region of the continent for over 3 years.
Thanks to his strong qualifications in general management, strategic planning, project development, and control, he recently took on the role of Executive Vice President for Latin America at Globant, leveraging his experience in information technology to add value to the organization.
Maite Barrera
CEO Bluecap, a Globant DIvision
Maite Barrera Xaubet is the CEO of Bluecap and a Member of Globant's Executive Committee. She is the founder of Bluecap Management Consulting, a leading company in strategic consulting and advanced analytics for the financial sector that was recently acquired by Globant.
Maite is currently a member of Globant's Executive Committee and a member of the Advisory Board of Grupo Godó.
She worked at Oliver Wyman & Co in financial services in London and Madrid, leading projects for Europe and Latin America. Before that, she developed her professional career at BBVA/Argentaria (Madrid), in the Value Based Management department, reporting directly to the Management Committee of the company, and also at Alpha Corporate (Arthur Andersen Corporate Finance).
Maite holds a degree in Business Administration and Management from ESADE and an MBA from ESADE and the Anderson School of Business (UCLA). She is the first female President of ESADE Alumni, a member of the ESADE Board of Trustees, and a donor to the ESADE Foundation Scholarship Program as a promoter of her own scholarship, “Beca Futuro”.
Maite is currently a member of the Princess of Girona Foundation, a member of the board’s Delegate Committee, a member of the Audit Committee, and head of the Foundation’s Finance Working Group. She is also a member of the executive committee of Barcelona Global.
She received the Young Talented Executives Award from Amrop Seeliger y Conde in 2010 and is committed to society and children, which is why she collaborates with the Children’s Hospital of Sant Joan de Déu in their charity work.
Felipe Miranda
Managing Director US
Felipe is a Managing Director at Globant and Professional Advisor in technology, business innovation, and services industry. He is passionate about innovation, technology and business development.
He works unifying teams and partners behind a shared vision & strategy, helping companies to innovate and be ready for change.
Karl Norman
CEO eWave, a Globant Company
With a background in commerce technology, Karl has 25 years experience developing innovative and highly-effective digital solutions for Fortune 500 clients, and has led teams across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Prior to co-founding eWave, Karl successfully grew business startups and services in the US, Europe and Australia across multiple industry verticals.
Built on the realisation that traditional marketing was dead and that digital commerce was the future, Karl Co-Founded eWave.
With unparalleled knowledge of the digital landscape across the Asia-Pacific region, Karl is an expert in identifying emerging opportunities and building partnerships to enable growth for eWave and its partner network. This strategic direction forms the foundation for the world’s biggest B2B and B2C brands to streamline operations and create engaging experiences for their customers.
Karl’s passion for identifying and seizing opportunity has seen eWave become the leading commerce agency in the APAC region. Based in Sydney, Karl frequently travels between offices in Singapore, Hong Kong and China.
Stuart Deignan
Managing Director, UK
Stuart is a transformational leader with 25 years of leading growth within complex global organisations. He has deep experience of developing and implementing corporate strategy and building high performing organisations. He has held senior leadership positions across several industry sectors (including Technology, Public Sector, Energy, Utilities and Manufacturing) and has demonstrated his ability to quickly gain deep domain knowledge and understanding of clients’ business.
• Business Unit P&L (up to $200m globally)
• Digital Leadership & Creating New Propositions
• Strategic Global Account Management
• Sustained Revenue Growth (20% YoY)
• Strategic Planning and Analysis
• Margin Improvement (from -5% to +25% OM)
• Winning Large Deals (e.g. $300m/10y)
• Client Relationship Management
• Creating Consulting Organisations
• People Leadership (1500 staff/15 countries)
Stuart has significant experience of driving change into large organisations, with a focus on delivering financial and business aligned outcomes. Key to the successful outcomes has been to create enthused and entrepreneurial teams that work alongside clients to solve critical business problems through flawless delivery capability and innovation.
In addition to a strong focus on developing himself and his teams, Stuart is passionate about coaching and mentoring others. He is proactive in developing both high performing and underperforming consultants, and in establishing policies and processes around recruitment, retention and development and in bringing gender and cultural diversity to high performing teams.
Luis Ureta
Managing Director, Spain
Executive with strong experience in digital business management. He is specialized in leading the expansion for high growth companies across Europe, LATAM and Asia. He builds up teams covering both strategy and commercial operations.
Enjoys working in high-tech environments with passionate and like-minded teams.
He has a strong expertise running go to market strategy growing client businesses covering Marketing Strategy, Sales Operations, Sales Force Management, Digital Core Business Solutions and Customer Experience. Co-founded and invested in several leading digital companies, which allows him to consolidate deep knowledge in ecommerce, marketplaces and engineering capabilities.
Beatriz De Tena
Managing Director, Walmeric, a Globant Company
Beatriz creates models for consistent, scalable and predictable sales. Helps large companies achieve incremental sales, controlling Cost Per Acquisition and multiplying sales 10X.
Revolution in the way of selling: has created the sales model based on a combination of Marketing + Tech + CX = Sales.
Without investment and with payment by results. She is passionate about sales, obsessed with metrics, strategies and productivity. She creates strategies, develops them, implements them and measures them looking for maximum performance from the first minute. She LOVES the relationship with the Customer.
Jaime Lopez
Co-founder AdBid, a Globant Company
Jaime has 5 years of experience in Digital Marketing: planning, executing and optimizing campaigns in Google Adwords, Big Ads, Facebook and other self-management platforms.
His job is to create, lead and strengthen performance and webanalytics departments, integrating them successfully to all communication strategies of large advertisers that invest in mass and digital media (including Social Media).
Specialist in Business intelligence through web analytics to understand, improve, optimize and increase business results.
Pablo Olivares
Chief Technology Staff
Pablo is Globant’s Chief of Technology Staff, responsible for the technology department, with focus on capacity planning and quality of delivery strategies.
Pablo joined Globant in 2014 as a Delivery Director leading the integration and delivery of a development group that was part of an acquisition. Since then, he has moved to different leadership roles including being the leading Partner of the Quality Engineering Studio, one of the largest technology groups at Globant. In August 2016, Pablo was appointed as Chief of Technology Staff with the mission of consolidating best practices for capacity planning and quality of delivery across Studios worldwide.
Pablo has more than 20 years of experience leading technology groups for off-shore, near-shore and onshore delivery, delivering small, mid range and large scale IT solutions.
Jose Valls
External Advisor
Jose Valls is a global business C-suite leader at the cross-section of the Automotive, mobility and technology industries. He counts with an extensive international experience across the globe managing businesses in complex and volatile environments. Has held top leadership positions at many Fortune 50 companies and start-ups.
With more than 25 years of corporate experience in the automotive industry. He continues focus on value creation across global markets. Former Chairman and CEO of Nissan North America and Latin America, one of the few Latin Americans to have overseen hemisphere operations. Also held multiple Senior positions at General Motors.
Proven strong and consistent performance in value creation, P&L management, brand-building, retail network development and operational excellence. Known for building high-performance teams and leading them to historic revenues and market share records, through both an inspirational and strong entrepreneurial leadership style.
Valls was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1967, counts with Major in Business Management and CPA from the Universidad Catolica Argentina and he has also completed Executive Management Programs in International Business Management and Marketing from the University of California Berkeley. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Our reports
Recognitions

19 Oct 2022
Globant ranked 4th in Apertura magazine's Best Employers ranking.

04 May 2022
Globant won the Bronze Stevie Award for Converge

31 Jul 2019
Martín Migoya, CEO, Globant, wins Gold and Bronze for the CEO of the Year Award.

28 Jun 2019
2019 Best Interiors of Latin America & the Caribbean Winners

15 Sep 2018
Globant won BIMA Advance Grand Prix, Transformation & Consultancy, and Advanced Category awards for helping Met create world’s largest digital Police force

15 Nov 2017
Globant won a Gold Lovie Award for The Metropolitan Police Website in Websites - Government & Civic

15 Sep 2012
Was recognized among the top 10 vendors in mobile applications development (2012) by IDC Survey.

01 Sep 2010
Entrepreneurs to watch, by The World Economic Forum (2010)

31 Mar 2010
2010 Cool Vendor in Business Process Services by Gartner

01 Feb 2007
Top emerging global IT service provider by Global Services (2007) and as one of the highest Rising Star on the IAOP ‘s 2010/2011 Global Outsourcing 100 list

03 Jun 2005
The four founders were selected as Endeavor Entrepreneurs