Javier Olivan is a Spanish engineer who became the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Meta (formerly known as Facebook) in August 2022.
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Wiki/Biography
Javier was born in 1977 (age 45 years; as of 2022), and is from Sabinanigo, Huesca, located near the Pyrenees, a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. He grew up paragliding in the Pyrenees mountains. Olivan studied computer engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. He earned a master’s degree in Automated Engineering and Industrial Electronics at the University of Navarra, Spain (1995–2000), and earned the Premios Nacionales de Fin de Carrera de Educación Universitaria (National End-of-Career Award for University Education). In 2001, he was selected by the EU-Japan Center for Industrial Cooperation to participate in the Vulcanus program in Japan. He earned a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University (2005–2007) with the Rafael del Pino Excellence Scholarship. As a Henry Crown Fellow, he participated in a two-year program at The Aspen Institute, Washington, District of Columbia, from 2014 to 2016. As of 2020, he lives in Palo Alto, California with his family.
Family
parents and siblings
Xavier Olivan’s father’s name is Florian. His mother, María Pilar, is a retired teacher from IES Biello Aragón, a public institution in Sabinanigo. He has a younger sister.
Javier Olivan with his parents and sister in Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park
wife and children
He is married and has two children.
livelihood
In December 2000, Xavier Olivan started his career as an R&D engineer at Siemens in the Munich area, Germany. From September 2001 to August 2002, he was in research and development at NTT DATA, an IT services provider. In Tokyo, his work at NTT Data focused on developing software that enabled high-quality, mobile video broadcasts. In March 2003, he rejoined Siemens as Advanced Procurement Engineer. In April 2004, he was promoted to Product Manager at Siemens Mobile, where he led a cross-functional team formed for the development and market launch of handset devices. From May 2006 to July 2006, he held the position of Business Development Consultant at Fon Wireless. For the next 3 months, he was a Summer Associate at Scale VP. On October 17, 2007, he joined Meta (then known as Facebook, Inc.) as head of international development. In November 2011, he became Vice President of Growth at Meta. After serving as VP of Central Products from May 2018 to January 2022, he became Chief Development Officer and VP of Cross-Meta Products and Infrastructure. At Meta, he oversees user adoption, product analytics, internationalization efforts, data science, UX research, and content strategy for the company’s central products like Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. He started Internet.org to translate the Facebook service into more than 100 languages, pioneer the idea of a development team, create “lite” versions of Facebook and Messenger for low-bandwidth environments, and spread Internet connectivity around the world. Worked towards doing. From December 2012 to August 2019, he was a board member of Mercado Libre, an e-commerce technology company. In June 2022, it was announced that Javier Olivan would take over as chief operating officer (COO) of Meta, succeeding Sheryl Sandberg.
Facts/General Knowledge
- He is a board member of Endeavor, a non-profit supporting the global entrepreneurship ecosystem.
- He speaks Spanish, English, German, French and Japanese.
- Oliven played a key role when Facebook pivoted to Internet.org, a free service promoted by the organization with a few partners to give a taste of the Internet to people who could not afford it. However, the service was criticized because Facebook became an Internet gatekeeper for those who signed up for it.
- Oliven was pursuing a master’s degree at Stanford and was determined to set up a Spanish version of Facebook when Mark Zuckerberg approached him in 2007 offering him the chance to join Facebook and lead the company’s international development division.
- An avid angel investor, Olivan has invested in several services including Yaba, a brand amplifier startup, payments API startup Reloadly, and tuition tool Gopier.
- His nickname is ‘Javi’.
- He occasionally consumes alcoholic beverages.
Xavier Olivan and Mark Zuckerberg drinking champagne
- He is fond of water surfing.
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