Octavio A Delgado-Vázquez works at General Motors in Detroit MI where he leads the transformation on their digital eCommerce space.

He is a versatile Technology Leader who specializes in disrupting enterprises, bringing stakeholders together and making change happen, both in the corporate world and our community.

In the last 3 years, Octavio has closed deals with big tech companies to introduce major transformations within the CRM, Marketing and eCommerce spaces and implemented significant changes within GM to align to the future vision of the automaker.

He is a broker, a mentor, a curious engineering leader and a visionary.

Before that Octavio has specialized on large scale business process transformations through the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions, in the US, Mexico, Australia, and South America regions.

Born and raised in Mexico City, Octavio started his contact with software development informally at the age of 6 with a custom built Personal Computer (Intel 8088) built by his dad, doing MS Basic Programming over IBM DOS, but formally at the age of 18 developing and testing  web based solutions  for a Microsoft partner to pay for his college education. 

Octavio holds a Computer Science degree from the Monterrey Tech Institute in Mexico City, an MBA from the same institution and a master’s degree in science from Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.

As part of his commitment to give back to the community, Octavio serves as the Executive Sponsor of the GM Latino Network, a group that brings 1000+ Latino Professionals to help their career advancement and support the community.

In his free time Octavio enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife Elsa, playing and driving Fernando and Pablo to sporting events and talking about the state of affairs in Mexico with his mom and dad who still live in Mexico City.