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by TeamAD July 1, 2022

written by TeamAD July 1, 2022

Some lesser known facts about Javier Olivan

Javier Olivan is a Spanish engineer who assumed the position of Chief Development Officer at Meta (formerly known as Facebook) in January 2022. He made headlines on June 2, 2022, when Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that Javier would become Olivan. The company’s next Chief Operating Officer (COO) will replace Sheryl Sandberg.

To the north of the province of Huesca are the Pyrenees Mountains, where Xavier spent his childhood paragliding.

An exceptional student, he has earned the Premios Nacionales de Fin de Carrera de Educación Universitaria (National Career Award for University Education).

In 2001, he pursued a one-year entrepreneurship program ‘EU-Japan Center for Industrial Cooperation’ in Vulcanus, Japan.

He earned his master’s degree at Stanford University, US with the Rafael Del Pino Excellence Scholarship.

He began his career in the Munich area of Germany, where he began working as an R&D engineer at Siemens in December 2000. His fascination with the disruption of mobile communications urged him to join Siemens.

From September 2001 to August 2002, he headed the R&D division of IT services provider NTT Data in Tokyo, Japan. He led the development of software enabling high quality mobile video transmissions at NTT Data.

In March 2003, he rejoined Siemens as an Advanced Procurement Engineer. After being promoted to product manager in 2004, Javier resigned from the company in June 2005.

From May 2006 to July 2006, he held the position of Business Development Consultant at Fon Wireless.

In addition, he also became a board member of the non-profit organization Endeavor in 2020.

He was a recipient of the Henry Crown Fellowship from 2014 to 2016, during which he attended a two-year program at The Aspen Institute, Washington, District of Columbia.

He joined Meta (then known as Facebook, Inc.) on 17 October 2007 as Head of International Development. After becoming VP of Growth in November 2011 and VP of Central Products in May 2018, he became META’s Chief Growth Officer in January 2022. Additionally, he also held the position of VP of Cross-Meta Products and Infrastructure. At Meta, he oversaw user adoption, product analysis, internationalization efforts, UX research, data science and content strategy for the company’s central products such as Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp.

Xavier is known for translating the Facebook service into 100+ languages and ensuring that the app works on slow and basic smartphones by introducing its “lite” version.

On 2 June 2022, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Javier Olivan would take over as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Meta following the resignation of Sherrill Sandberg.

A polyglot, Javier can speak five different languages, Spanish, English, German, French and Japanese.

When Olivan was a student at Stanford, he was developing a Spanish-language version of Facebook called Nosuni with his friends when Mark Zuckerberg joined Facebook in 2007 to lead international development.