Anna Navarro Descals (Anna Schlegel) is Truly Global. She provides an insider’s look at how enterprises move into international markets to successfully deliver and scale their product offerings to customers across different cultures.
Anna has unlocked new and significant net revenue to the organizations she has worked with. In her experience leading expansion in the technology industry, as GM and later as Vice-President of Enterprise Globalization, Anna brought Japan’s NetApp business from ranking number 12 to number 1 in data storage.
She has worked extensively driving global market growth by entering new markets, enabling Joint Ventures in China, and OEM partnerships in Europe & Asia. Her strategy leverages product market fit, and an enterprise cohesive upfront investment, to build a strategy for global expansion and support the company's growth goals. 

Over the past 30 years, Anna has led globalization, PLC, engineering, international product, technical content, corporate strategy, and marketing teams at top technology companies in the Silicon Valley, including: ProCore Technologies, Cisco Systems, Google, VeriSign, VMware, Xerox, and NetApp. Her work has been published in Forbes, Fortune, the European Union, Gala-Global, Multilingual, and many other industry forums. Anna has kept consulting for Google's International Product Team throughout her career, and is a requested speaker at the Berkeley Haas Institute, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Universitat de Barcelona, Universistat Autonoma de Barcelona, and Stanford University.

Today, Anna sits on 3 Global Boards, is a Catalan DIPLOCAT member and Sr. Technical Advisor for Plataforma per la Llengua, and has presided the Catalan International Economic Circle study on Women. She continues her philanthropic work with the non-profits she co-founded, including Women in Localization, where she is the President. During her tenure at NetApp and Procore Technologies, Anna Chaired and sponsored the WIT (Women in Technology) organization.

In December 2021, Anna was awarded the "Creu de Sant Jordi" Medal of Honor by the Catalan Government for her leading efforts in Technology and Business. This award is considered the highest honor as a Catalan national. 

In April 2024, Anna was honored with the IPECC Award for her projection of the Catalan culture around the world.
Find and explore her awards from 2024 onwards, listed on the AWARDS tab.  ​

Where is Anna Now? 

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