Marco Esteban Delgado

Senior Operations, Transformation & Turnaround Executive

Marco is a Partner at LUX ACTU. His career has centred on leading operations, transformation and performance improvement in complex, technology-enabled and service-intensive environments across Europe, the Americas, Africa and Central Asia.

He brings together strategic perspective, operating model discipline and hands-on execution leadership. He is most relevant when a leadership team needs to move from diagnosis to delivery — whether the situation involves transformation, performance recovery, professionalisation, operating complexity or stabilisation.

Areas of focus

Operations leadership
Transformation & execution
Performance improvement & value creation
Operating model & governance
Turnaround & stabilisation
International operations

Selected results

Selected results from Marco Esteban’s prior executive career.

Led an €80M+ turnaround from gross margin -84% to break-even within 12 months, then to +11% within 24 months.
Delivered USD 66M savings and +30% gross margin in 18 months across five countries on a USD 600M managed services contract.
Held full P&L responsibility for a €10M annual services portfolio across Europe, leading 50 direct and 300 indirect reports.
Grew a European operations portfolio by +25% revenue while reducing the annual cost base by 5%.
Recovered two delayed nationwide rollout projects in Chile (€20M) and Spain (€10M) to on-time, on-budget delivery.

Background

Education & certifications

Master in Economics & Business Administration, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Bachelor in Electronic Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
PMP · ITIL v3 Foundation

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