Javier Peregrina — Madrid

Chief Digital Officer · Digital, Marketing & Ecommerce

I get called in when something commercially important is stuck.

Twenty years running digital and marketing in businesses where growth depends on the funnel — banking, education, telco and FMCG. Inside listed multinationals and inside private-equity-owned groups, which are very different rooms.

Javier Peregrina
Javier PeregrinaMadrid
Sectors
Banking · Education
Telco · FMCG
Teams led
20–25 people
Markets
ES · PT · AD · EC · LATAM
Executive education
IESE PDD

What was stuck, and what moved

Five mandates

01

An international retail bank

Commercial Web & Digital Own Media Lead · Spain

A new public website had been in the works for three years without shipping. I cut the scope back to a genuine MVP and put it live in January 2020 — it is the site in production today — then rebuilt digital acquisition around it, including a personalisation programme an Accenture Song benchmark identified as the strongest in Spanish financial services.

6 moFrom arrival
to live site
02

A leading Spanish higher-education group

Digital Marketing Director · Madrid, Valencia & LATAM

Student acquisition depended entirely on performance media while media costs inflated at double digits. I ran the investment across the group's universities and business schools in Spain and Latin America, brought cost per lead down while the market moved the other way, and delivered the April enrolment intake.

4Institutions,
two continents
03

A private-equity-owned education group

Marketing Director · Executive Committee

Full marketing perimeter of a fund-owned group — media, web, creative and design, product and martech — with a team of 25+ across Spain, Ecuador and LATAM, and a seat on the executive committee. Brought in brand-lift and geo-testing work with Deloitte's Data & AI practice so that investment decisions stopped resting on last-click.

6Marketing disciplines
under one roof
04

A global consumer multinational

Head of Digital · Spain, Portugal & Andorra

Digital lead for a regulated product division selling direct to consumers. Owned the digital sales channel, the asset roadmap and a loyalty programme that became the industry's reference point, and measured campaigns against non-exposed control groups rather than platform-reported numbers.

3Countries,
four markets
05

A telecoms multinational

Performance Digital Marketing Owner · Spain

Eleven years from marketing specialist to owning paid media and performance for the consumer business. Product Owner of the first business squad created outside IT in the company — the one that built the new online store.

11 yrsOne company,
five mandates

How I work

Six things worth knowing

01Commercial ownership

Digital as the engine of the P&L, not a reporting function. Every euro of investment defended in front of a board or a fund.

02The whole stack, one person

Brand, paid media, CRO, CRM, martech and analytics. Largely on Adobe Marketing Cloud, which I have used since it was called Omniture.

03Measurement that survives scrutiny

Incrementality, geo-testing and brand lift, with partners such as Deloitte's Data & AI practice. "Digital works" is not an answer anyone should accept from a CMO.

04Private-equity fluency

Executive committee member in a fund-owned group. Used to reporting cadence, cash discipline and investment cases that hold up under a board that counts.

05Shipping over planning

Agile applied for real: scope cut to a working MVP, put live, then iterated. That is how a three-year website became a six-month one.

06Practical AI

Applied to marketing operations, and hands-on enough that I designed and built two production websites for my own venture with it.

Track

1998 — today

2025 —

Independent practice · Fractional advisor — digital agency, ultra-premium events launch, agentic AI start-up

2024 — 2025

Planeta Formación y Universidades · Digital Marketing Director, Madrid, Valencia & LATAM

2023 — 2024

IMF Smart Education · Marketing Director, Executive Committee

2022 — 2023

Philip Morris International · Head of Digital, Spain, Portugal & Andorra

2019 — 2022

ING Bank · Commercial Web & Digital Own Media Lead

2008 — 2019

Vodafone España · Marketing Specialist to Performance Digital Marketing Owner

2006 — 2008

Phone House · MVNO Product Manager

2005 — 2006

Vodafone España · Marketing Specialist

1998 — 2005

Centro Mail · Founder and owner of a video games franchise, opened at 19 alongside my degree

Also on the record

Education & recognition

2025

Google Marketing Partner Awards · Jury member — digital transformation, media excellence, modern measurement

2025 —

Electric Taxi Madrid · Co-founder, premium fully electric mobility service

2024

LinkedIn Spain, Performance Branding · Speaker, alongside Cabify, Iberdrola and Interbrand

2018

IESE Business School · Programme for Management Development

2001 — 2006

ESIC Business & Marketing School · Bachelor in Marketing & Business Engineering

Languages

Spanish native · English C1, full professional proficiency

If digital is your commercial engine, we should talk.

I am looking for a Chief Digital Officer, CMO or Head of Digital & Ecommerce role — in Madrid, Barcelona, or anywhere an hour or two away by train. Happy to start with a conversation and no CV attached.

The CV is not posted here. Ask and it is with you the same day.