Summary
Alejandro Abascal is a seasoned digital commerce and retail media leader with deep hands-on experience building eCommerce, D2C and marketplace businesses at Amazon, Alibaba and Samsung. He has repeatedly turned strategy into measurable growth—launching Android in Spain, leading inaugural Black Friday and Prime Day operations, and scaling AliExpress and Miravia category clusters. At Samsung he directs Retail Media, CRM and customer-data strategies, managing multi-million euro budgets and full-funnel KPIs while advising VP/CMO and aligning with global HQ. A tech early adopter (first modem in 1994) and trained telecom engineer, he blends analytical rigor with product and commercial instincts across Electronics, FMCG, Home and Beauty. He is also an educator and industry thought leader, teaching retail media and eCommerce at top business schools while driving AI-driven personalization and measurement pilots in market. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative, inclusive leader who builds high-performing teams and pragmatic experiment-driven roadmaps.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Telecommunication Engineering, MSc Telecommunication Engineering at University of Deusto
English, Spanish, Basque, German