Experience

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Fernando Delgado comes from Caracas, Venezuela. He got his BsC in Honors Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Michigan (U of M) in Ann Arbor. During his time in Michigan, he participated in several competitions. His achievements include: 1st place in Michigan and 38th nationally at the Putnam Mathematical Competition in 2004 (hardest individual math competition at the national college level) and ranked 1st in Michigan at the ACM Programming Competition in 2007 (hardest team programming competition at the national college level). He was a member of Telluride House from 2005-2007, a scholarship program for high-performing students involved in self-governance, intellectual curiosity and community service.

After graduating from college, he was chosen as one of Google’s Associate Product Managers. In his first stint at Google, he made individual contributions to dozens of features and launches across google.com search, Google Maps, voice search, Android and others.

In 2012, Fernando joined Yahoo as a Senior Director of Product Management in the Mobile organization. He led led various teams across his tenure, including one that launched Yahoo's homepage app, reaching the #1 spot in the Mobile News category (Android & iOS), as well as the one that modernized the Yahoo Mail App and shipped the biggest redesign of the app in years. It reached the #5 spot of all iOS free apps in 2015.

In addition to building products, he also co-founded and co-led the Associate Product Manager Program at Yahoo. During his tenure, 23 elite APM were hired. They contributed internally to efforts such as Flickr, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Mail, Gemini Advertising, Tumblr, and more. Post-Yahoo, they have become leaders at Apple, Waymo, Stripe, US Digital Service, Upwork, Hipcamp, and more.

Fernando’s journey includes various entrepreneurial stints as well. He co-founded La Tienda Venezolana in July 2016, which became Venezuelan’s #1 online store with over 10K paid customers, 1M unique website visitors and $750K+ in sales in its first 3 years.

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