Fiesta Bowl

Pete Vazquez was appointed as the Fiesta Bowl’s Vice President of Finance & Accounting in January 2024 after initially joining the organization as Interim Controller in 2023. He will oversee the department’s financial activities on a day-to-day basis and in setting strategic priorities to position the organization for success in football and community initiatives.

Vazquez joined the Fiesta Bowl from Biolab Sciences, where he served as the Controller. In his role, he implemented a new enterprise resource planning system while handling all accounting and tax matters. While most of Vazquez’s 20-year finance career is in biomedicine and the medical field, Vazquez also has recent experience in education as the Senior Director of Finance with the Spring Education Group, a group that acquired and operated over 250 schools across the country and in China and Thailand, and Basis.ed Ventures, who manages the for-profit entities of the Basis Schools Network.

Vazquez, a native of Chicago, got his start at a business law firm before moving on to CVS/Caremark as a Senior Financial Analyst. He then spent eight years with Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Translational Drug Development (TD2). As TD2’s Controller, he successfully separated TD2 from its parent company to become a For Profit entity and into a $5 million revenue company.

Hometown: Chicago, IL
Alma Mater: Roosevelt University
Favorite Arizona Restaurant: Café Monarch
Favorite Book: Treasure Island
Which college football game in history would you attend: USC-Texas in 2006 with Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart and Vince Young