Raul Vazquez

Raul Vazquez has served as chief executive officer and board member of Oportun, a financial technology company since April 2012. Prior to joining Oportun, Vazquez spent nine years at Walmart in various senior leadership roles, including executive vice president and president of Walmart West, chief executive officer of Walmart.com, and executive vice president of Global eCommerce for developed markets. Vazquez previously worked in startup companies in e-commerce, at a global strategy consulting firm focused on Fortune 100 companies and as an industrial engineer for Baxter Healthcare. Mr. Vazquez also served as a member of the board of directors of Staples, Inc. from 2013 to June 2016. In September 2015, Vazquez was named to the Federal Reserve Board’s Community Advisory Council and currently serves as its vice chair. Mr. Vazquez received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree in industrial engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.