We Are Globant

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 8300 professionals and presence in the the Americas, Europe and Asia. Today, Globant is working for world class customers such as Google, Electronic Arts, NatGeo, Southwest Airlines and Coca Cola, 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, together with three friends, co-founded Globant with a clear goal in mind: “To build a company leader in delivering digital and cognitive transformations”. Sixteen years later, their dream is coming true, with Globant partnering with some of the most renowned brands of the world. Today, Globant is a publicly listed company in the NYSE, with more than 8300 employees working from 14 different countries. Its portfolio of customers’ ranges from giants like Electronic Arts, Coca Cola and Linkedin, to other innovative companies like Google and NatGeo.

Guibert´s role as CTO is key to Globant´s growth and success. His strong focus in technology, innovation and motivation can be reflected into Globant´s innovative culture and expertise. Guibert is the head the Technology department, and as such leads Globant's Studios, deep pockets of expertise that comprise Globant's talent around different technologies and trends.

Together with the other three Globant´s founders, Guibert was selected as Endeavor Entrepreneur 2005. In addition to that, he is Chairman of Endeavor Argentina. He was also included in the Globalization Today’s “Powerful 25” list, positioning him as one of the industry´s most influential leaders. Guibert is frequently invited to talk about Innovation at different events, such as Tedx, Communicating the Museum, La Red Innova and Innotribe.

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.

Patricia is a rising star at Globant as she takes on new and diverse leadership roles. Her mission is to ensure key elements of the business: the speed, quality and services of product delivery. As Globant’s operative leader, she oversees the revenue and margin for company-wide operations so that Globant can smartly execute its strategy with maximum value for clients and stakeholders.

Recognizing the importance of Globers’ wellbeing, training and skill development, her responsibilities have recently expanded to include oversight of the People department. Bridging the gap between the People and Delivery areas is a pillar of Globant’s strategy to provide greater value to its clients. To execute her duties efficiently, Patricia regularly takes the pulse of the global company, whether it be consulting with regional management across Globant’s markets, or joining happy hours with software developers to hear their stories.

Her role has become ever more complex as the company has grown to what is today a publicly traded company of 12,000 people working in seventeen 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.

In-house, Patricia is an advocate for having more women in management positions, recognizing the gender gap in the tech industry. She was one of the architects behind Globant’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 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.

Juan Urthiague is our Chief Financial Officer and is in charge of Corporate Finance, Treasury, Accounting and Tax, Financial Reporting, Financial Services and Investor Relations. Juan has been appointed as CFO in October 2018.

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 Juan spent 15 months outside Globant serving as CFO Latam for OLX and as CFO for avantrip.com. Prior to joining Globant in 2011, Juan 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 has a 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 Spanish native speaker and is fluent in English and Portuguese.

Wanda Weigert has been Globant’s Chief Brand Officer since 2007. She joined the company in 2005 as a senior consultant in the Internet marketing department before creating and supervising Globant's communications department. She has participated on Globant's growth from a small startup to a multinational public company since 2014. The organization is now listed on the NYSE under the ticker GLOB. 

As our Chief Brand Officer, she has two main goals. On one side, she supervises all global Corporate Communications programs, including  Globant's relationships with the press in the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia, internal and external communications strategies, crisis communications and Globant's Corporate Social Responsibility programs. On the other side, she is in charge of Globant's Stay Relevant department, which includes all the programs related to enhancing the company's relations with its customers. The main goal is to help clients stay fit for their businesses challenges. Within this area, she supervises research, marketing activities, analyst relations, content production and more. 

Wanda has more than 15 years of experience in Communications and PR. Prior to joining Globant she worked at Jota Group, a Publishing House where she was responsible for the development of corporate communications tools for different multinational customers. Wanda has a Bachelor Degree in Social Communications (Austral University) and post-graduate studies in Marketing (UCA).

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.

As Chief Business Officer for all operations in the United States and Canada, Fernando oversees Globant’s expansion in its most vital market. He is directly involved in crafting the company’s strategy and building relationships with clients and stakeholders, however not becoming decoupled with Globant’s vast operational apparatus of problem solvers across its multiple studios of expertise.

Fernando has over twenty years of experience in the software services industry, having begun his career in leadership positions at multinationals including Volkswagen, Oracle and Telefónica. When he joined Globant in 2009, the company was aggressively expanding, however not yet of international renown. Over the next decade, he was directly involved in the benchmarks of the company’s story through its 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 16 countries throughout the world.

In the United States, he previously led the company’s efforts in the East region but also worked from coast to coast to develop Globant’s teams and to deepen their relationships with clients for long-term transformational partnerships - 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, and Fernando is one of the architects behind the company’s 360 transformational perspective to leverage technology for the digital age. As he takes on his new role as Chief Business Officer for the entire North American region,\ his focus and ambition are nonetheless aligned with the company’s at-large: to become the best software and professional services company in the world.

As Globant’s business leader for Northern Europe & Asia, Federico designs and implements the company’s strategy in the regions where it has heavy ambitions for expansion, including new markets such as France, Germany, Switzerland and Singapore.

Previously, Federico was a Regional Managing Director based in London, and the managing director for several financial services clients in New York. He was 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, energy and telecommunications sector.

Nicolás runs and oversees all aspects of the Latin America operation, including the business development strategy, team building and management and overall client relationship. He also collaborates in global strategic initiatives.

Prior joining Globant Nicolás served as CEO & Managing Director in the Financial Services Division Accenture, leading Sales for the Hispanic South America Region. Before that, he held executive roles in world-class companies such as Citibank, Zurich, Telefónica and Korn/Ferry International. With extended studies in business and finance, he focused his career on developing business opportunities for companies throughout the region. Nicolás holds postgraduate studies in Finance from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and a degree in Business Administration from Universidad de Belgrano.

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.

As Globant’s Chief Information Officer, Gustavo is responsible for the Company’s infrastructure team (IT operations and information security), enterprise applications, and IT services. Prior to that, Gustavo served as Executive Vice President, Delivery, managing Globant’s delivery partners, staffing, recruiting, PM Office, and site managers.

Gustavo has extensive experience in IT Consulting. Before joining Globant, he worked at various renowned companies such as Siemens-Itron Business Services, Paradigma Consultores Asociados and Pecom Nec. Prior to that, he led a Consulting team at Correo Argentino, where he was in charge of redefining the 33 postal processing centers and of implementing the “Track&Trace” System across the country.

Gustavo holds a degree in Industry Engineering from Buenos Aires University, and a Master degree in Business Administration from IDEA, with a specialization in strategy by the London Business School.

Mercedes MacPherson is Globant's Chief Talent & Diversity Officer. She has been working in the HR function for 17 years. For the last 10 years she has worked for Globant occupying several crucial roles, such as Head of Recruiting, Compensations People Champions and People Latam Region. She is passionate about Talent Development and People Management and in every role she has had she has been able to build high performance teams.

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.

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.

Guillermo Bodnar is Chief Solutions Officer at Globant. Based in San Francisco, Guillermo is charged with ensuring continued innovation and creativity throughout Globant’s technological solutions. Prior to joining Globant in 2011, he co-founded KnGrid, a service that helps communities harness the benefits of an online liquid market for the smart grid. He was also Chief Information Officer at Arbinet, which provides international voice and IP solutions to carriers and service providers, and led the implementation of Rightsrouter for Broad Street Digital, the first global platform enabling music labels to manage digital rights and control content distribution. He is responsible for Globant success in all our strategic opportunities. On top of that, he’ll act as the CSO for the US West Region

Guillermo holds a Systems Engineering and Computer Science degree from UNICEN, Universidad del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.

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.

With more than 15 years of experience at Globant, Marina currently holds the Chief Solution Officer for the East Region. Marina has grown at Globant and has taken on different roles just as: Testing Lead, Quality Assurance Manager, and Business Development Director, among others.  

Since 2015, and before being appointed CSO, she was Engagement Manager at one of our top clients. As part of that team, the account grew from +200 to more than +700 globers.

She is passionate at building strong teams to grow partnerships with clients and she is constantly looking at ways to improve team dynamic and showcasing Globant’s value proposition. She is a trusted source who moves and inspire Globers with her experience; turn ideas into reality, and know and show how to replicate success. Her strong points include: process and agile frameworks, project management, business development with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively.

Marina currently lives in Orlando with her two daughters and husband.

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.

Gastón is Globant´s CTO Studios. As such, he is responsible for leading our Studios, including their strategy, value proposition, and team management.

Born in the Datacenter, evolved to the Cloud, Gastón joined Globant in 2015 as Studio Partner of CloudOps Studio, bringing in new key capabilities to support the delivery of digital products and experiences at scale.

Prior to joining Globant, he led the Cloud and Enterprise business group at Microsoft Argentina and Uruguay. He also worked for Sun Microsystems and IBM Cloud Services for Spanish South America. He is a System Engineer, Master in Biomedical Engineering and Singularity University Alumni.

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.

Globant General Manager for the US South Central region Stefan Buzzi is a senior Executive with an extensive record in building, operating and growing international businesses. Stefan is in charge of driving Globant's Strategic Growth, Client Relationship Management across multiple industries, Business Operations and P&L Management of the South Region. He is a Multilingual results-driven Executive with extensive experience working in Latin America, Europe and USA.

Prior to joining Globant, Stefan served in multiple Executive Management and leadership roles in companies like Sherwin Williams or AkzoNobel. With an Entrepreneurial spirit, Stefan describes himself as a team builder and team player with a proven record of creating and working with global multicultural teams.

As EVP & General Manager, Shantala drives the strategic growth, client relationship management across industries, business operations and P&L Management of Globant's U.S. East Region. Over the last 25 years of her global career, she has led and transformed organizations and their clientele through consulting, technology and outsourcing, leveraging cross-industry experience. Leapfrogging digital agendas, Shantala has been a champion of innovation and creativity disruption and throughout this process of growth, has found her passion in building high performance and high engagement within leadership, catalyzing a top-down waterfall of change to the greater organization and clients.

Shantala is also incredibly passionate about giving back to the communities that have supported her, empowering those that once empowered her. She loves to share her experiences and learnings over the years by teaching in executive management programs and enabling other women to take on roles in leadership in business and technology firms to further diversity & inclusion. 

Prior to joining Globant, Shantala has played several Senior Executive Management and leadership roles in Capgemini, Mindcrest and Hexaware.

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.

Veronica is Globant's Recruiting Manager. She is in charge of leading the talent attraction and hiring strategy.
She joined Globant 2008 and has developed her career in Recruiting and Capacity. As part of the Recruiting team she has collaborated with Globant growth and participated in the set up of many new offices in different countries. Since 2015 she has been working as Globant Recruiting Manager, leading the Global team.

Alejandro Scannapieco is Co-Partner Business Hacking Studio. Before this, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Globant. As such, he successfully led the Company to its IPO in July 2014, making Globant the first IT services company from Latin America to be listed on the NYSE.

Prior to joining Globant in 2008, Alejandro previously served as Chief Financial Officer at Microsoft South Cone and Patagon South America, as well as Senior Finance Analyst at JP Morgan. Alejandro has a post-graduate degree in capital markets, a degree in public accounting and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. He has also completed a post-graduate degree in finance from Torcuato Di Tella University.