Marinus van Gestel

Senior Director and General Manager Spain - Uber Delivery

Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area

About

Experienced executive leader in e-commerce and delivery services across Latin America. General management / CEO experience leading cross-functional teams of ∼2.000 FTEs and 11 countries in Latin America. Skilled in operations, commercial and marketing, capable of leading and aligning diverse needs such as country launches, scaling high-growth operations, profitability improvements, organizational development and reorganizations, as well as building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Possessing a background in management consulting at McKinsey & Company

Experience

  • Uber ()
    • Senior Director and General Manager Spain - Uber Delivery
      Apr 2026 - Present · 4 mos

    • Senior Director and General Manager Central Europe - Uber Delivery
      Feb 2024 - Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Leading Uber Delivery (Restaurants, Groceries & Retail, and B2B Uber Direct) for Germany and Poland

    • Senior Director and Head of Latin America, Grocery and Retail
      Jul 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Leading the Grocery & Retail business for Uber across 12 markets in Latin America, post the migration of Cornershop into Uber

  • Cornershop by Uber (2 yrs 6 mos)
    • Head of Latin America
      Jan 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Cornershop is a leading on-demand delivery platform designed for consumers to browse and buy products from local supermarkets, independent grocery and local specialty stores

    • Head Cornershop Mexico
      Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Linio Group (5 yrs 1 mo)
    • Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) - Linio Group
      Sep 2019 - Jan 2020 · 5 mos

      - Linio is one of the larger Latin American e-commerce players, acquired in August 2018 by the Falabella Group - Responsible for marketing companywide, with most of execution done in-house by experts from all over the world - Leading also companywide data strategy (Director of Data)

    • Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) - Linio Group
      Nov 2016 - Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Leading Commercial a corporate level (present in 5 countries: Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Argentina). As interim also lead Operations and Marketing during 2-3 years in absence of the COO and CMO.

    • Country Manager Conosur
      Apr 2016 - Oct 2016 · 7 mos

      Responsability for overal results of Linio Argentina, Chile and Peru. Based in Chile and afterwards Peru, with travel to the different countries.

  • Groupon (3 yrs 11 mos)
    • Head of Strategy and Operations LatAm
      Sep 2014 - Jan 2015 · 5 mos

    • Managing Director - Local Business
      Aug 2013 - Sep 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Head of the Brazilian Local sales team as well as related areas such as partner management, planning, sales control and leadgen. The local team with around 300 people at a national level manages all categories except for travel and products.

    • Director Sales Strategy
      Feb 2013 - Jul 2013 · 6 mos

  • Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company
    Feb 2009 - Mar 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Working for the São Paulo office, Brazil.