, Olivan graduated from the Spain-based University of Navarra in 2000 and later got his MBA from Stanford in 2007. He worked at Siemens AG and other startups, including some based in Tokyo, before going to Facebook.Zuckerberg contacted and recruited him as head of global growth.He was head of international growth for four years and was"responsible for introducing and growing Facebook adoption outside of US," per his LinkedIn.
His Spanish upbringing and global perspective helped him as he opened many of Facebook's offices around the world. It was Olivan who had the idea to enlist users from around the world to help translate the social website in their native countries for free, helping the company rapidly expand into new markets in a short amount of time.
All in all, he is the key reason that Facebook was able to scale across the globe thanks to a data-driven approach.The limelight is not his forte — and he's fine with thatthe leaked material that whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed in 2021But besides that, he is not known for being in the public eye, nor does he have any desire to be, anonymous colleagues told
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