Isabel Pedrejon
Updated Tuesday, April 2, 2024-21:31
Catalonia Carles Puigdemont signs as 'number two' for 12-M Anna Navarro, the Silicon Valley executive who says that "half of the streets in California are Catalans"
To describe
Anna Navarro Schlegel
(1968) would be to unfairly limit her. But it has to start somehow.
Carles Puigdemont
(61) has just chosen the businesswoman as number two in the Catalan elections of 12-M for his Junts per Catalunya party. A tremendously intelligent maneuver.
Navarro was born in Olot (Girona) and is the middle child of a
marriage formed by a painter and an industrial engineer
who instilled in all their children the culture of effort.
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From her earliest childhood she was aware of being Catalan and
spoke only in this language,
except with one of her grandparents, with whom she communicated in Spanish. So she was able to start practicing it.
The entrepreneurial spirit
has been nurtured in her house
since she could remember. They had the
Can Descals
food factory
, the Ros
metallurgical factory
and the ca L'Hostenc
paper
factory. While
studying
Anglo-Germanic philology at the University of Barcelona
she worked eight hours a day
at British Airways where she controlled the suitcases, did the check-in and prepared the routes. She later
completed a postgraduate degree
in German Philology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, a couple of years before the fall of the Wall.
The British airline offered him the opportunity to
go to San Francisco,
where he did not hesitate to establish his residence. After
studying strategy
at Stanford University and Santa Clara University, in addition to having studied
telecommunications engineering
and digital transformation, he decided to create his first start-up in the United States in 1992. She has worked for Cisco Systems, NetApp, Xerox, VeriSign and Procore Technologies, which has made her
one of the most valuable women in Silicon Valley.
In this world dominated by men, Anna has managed
to carve out a niche
for herself through perseverance, work and sacrifice.
She speaks five languages,
Catalan, Spanish, English, German and French and she does not rule out continuing to learn more languages because what interests her most is communicating with people. As she told the newspaper
Ara
, "professional success comes from studying, being a good person and working as a team.
And not being an asshole!"
Although her second surname is Descals, she decided
to change it to her husband's.
They both form an indestructible team along with
their four children
(two of them are adopted)
,
one of whom suffers from an
autism spectrum
disorder - as he confessed in the same newspaper - and to achieve everything achieved he is very clear that
the personal pillars
They must be well established. He constantly transmits wise advice to his children: "I have taught them
to be good people
and to know how to distinguish them from those who are not (...)
Good manners
are being lost. You have to say 'good morning' when you enter the office. somewhere and to say 'I love you' to your family.
She does not believe that superwomen exist, but she firmly believes that to achieve your dreams you need to have
the management of the home in harmony
. And, for this, he has had help for several decades
.
For three consecutive years she was named
the most influential woman
in the world of technology and in 2018 she was chosen
Woman of the Year in Silicon Valley,
but she does not usually rejoice in it. In fact, much of her family doesn't really know what she does for a living.
He considers that "the values of
Catalan society
have also helped me a lot, to be more concerned about people" and in that desire to have a better world
he has founded several NGOs
that have allowed him to build up to five towns in Africa and five schools. of girls in Kenya. All the baggage accumulated in the last three decades wants
to put it at the service of Catalonia
and as
an independentist
that he is, he is going to put all his efforts.
In the Catalan digital newspaper VilaWeb has emphasized that "Catalonia is beautiful, with
very hard-working people, incredible traditions,
a very rich history and culture with great human values. As an adult I have been aware of the
decrease in resources "For Catalans,
the lack of policies in many aspects. We could have the best healthcare, the best schools, universities, roads, public transportation...".
Despite having worked from sun to shade,
he has never neglected his health.
She tries to sleep the necessary hours, meditates and practices
a lot of sports since she was little.
She became captain of a volleyball team and was about to represent Spain at the 1992 Olympics. In 2021 she was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi.