Javier Olivan Lopez was born on 1977 and is a Spanish business executive who has been chief operating officer of Meta Platforms since 2022, having succeeded Sheryl Sandberg.
14 Facts About Javier Olivan
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Javier Olivan's father Florian is a retired businessman who ran a hardware store and an arcade, while his mother Maria Pilar is a retired professor from the Biello Aragon Institute.
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Between 1995 and 2002, Olivan studied electrical and industrial engineering at Tecnun, the School of Engineering of the University of Navarra in Pamplona.
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Javier Olivan then joined Siemens as a research and development engineer in Munich, Germany, where he patented an algorithmic system for digital image processing, before moving to Tokyo, Japan, to work for NTT Data on wireless video technologies.
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Javier Olivan later worked as product manager at Siemens Mobile where he led a team responsible for mobile device development.
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Javier Olivan joined Facebook in October 2007 as head of international growth under Chamath Palihapitiya.
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Javier Olivan advised multiple acquisitions including that of WhatsApp and Onavo.
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Javier Olivan was the vice president of Central Products between 2018 and 2022, after which he was promoted to chief growth officer.
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Javier Olivan was recognized as a Henry Crown Fellow by the Aspen Institute in 2014.
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Javier Olivan is on the board of the non-profit, Endeavor Global.
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Javier Olivan was on the board of Vy Global Growth, a special-purpose acquisition company that invested in geospatial imaging firm Satellogic before the SPAC deal completed in 2022.
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Javier Olivan lived in Palo Alto, California, before moving to Spain and working remotely as of 2023.
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Javier Olivan met his wife while he was an Erasmus student in Munich.
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Javier Olivan is fluent in five languages, including French, German, and Japanese.