BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ

CIO, Aeroméxico

Mr. Hernandez has served as the Aeroméxico Group CIO since January 2012. With almost 20 years of experience in aviation industry, Mr. Hernandez is responsible for providing an IT vision, roadmap and leadership for company digitalization and innovation in a secure environment, also managing effective delivery to drive better customer experience, more efficient products, services and business models in all AeroMexico Group companies.As CIO, he is also responsible for important project implementation and IT transformation in the following: Sabre reservations system, Praxis revenue accounting, Pros Revenue Management, Jepppesen Crew Systems, Jeppesen Flight Plan, Sabre Movement Manager, Oracle EBS, AMOS MRO system, e-commerce platform based in Akana API management, Google collaboration, Employees Oracle Self Service, etc.

Mr. Hernandez has been part of Aeroméxico Group since 1996. During his carrier in the company, he had different positions and assignments in areas such: Information Technology, Strategic, Commercial and Network Planning.

In the education sector, Mr. Hernandez has more than 18 years of experience as a professor for different private Mexican Universities, including Tec de Monterrey, Universidad de Monterrey, TEC de Madero, etc.

He has been a member of “Project management Institute” Chapter Nuevo Leon since 2005 (education committee) and “Information Week” editorial council since 2012.

Mr. Hernandez has more than 26 years of experience developing IT Strategies and Projects and acting as a Change Management Agent.

Educational profile:
Masters Degree in Computer Science from “Kharkov Polytechnic Institute” Ukrania,
Computational Sciences Engineer from “Kharkov Polytechnic Institute” Ukrania, and Specialized courses in IT Strategic Management from “ITESM Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey.”