The businesswoman Anna Navarro Schlegel She will be number two on Carles Puigdemont’s candidacy in the 12-M elections. Junts wants to reinforce the economic profile of the list with the incorporation of the benchmark in the new technologies sector. Navarro was born in Olot in 1968 and has spent three decades working in technology companies, also in Silicon Valley. In December 2021, she was awarded the Saint George’s Cross of the Generalitat for his efforts in technology and business. The businesswoman explained that she now wants to put her experience at the service of Catalonia: “I don’t come to warm chairs but to work for what we Catalans deserve.”
Navarro studied Anglo-Germanic Philology at the University of Barcelona, and a postgraduate degree in German Philology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She later studied board leadership, telecommunications and technical information engineering, and women’s leadership studies at various American universities and innovation centers.
In 1992 he formed his first start-up in San Francisco (United States). He has led global engineering, digital transformation, global infrastructure, product globalization, technical content, and global business strategy teams for American corporations such as Cisco Systems, Xerox, VeriSign, VMware, NetApp y Procore Technologies. In 2020 she was named the world’s most influential woman in technology by the magazine Analytics Insight.
Navarro has assured that he accepts the offer because after his long career in the world of technology, he would now like to put this experience at the service of Catalonia, which in his opinion can be much more attractive “with its own voice and without complexes.”
Puigdemont, who thanked him for taking the step to help in the “new stage” of the country, explained that Navarro has decided to accept the challenge that he has proposed to put his “exceptional career” at the service of Catalonia. “If we want to create the conditions so that talent does not leave or so that what is already gone is returned, we must promote the right opportunities,” he added.
