MWCapital will appoint Laia Corbella as new CEO
The journalist's is the only name that the entity's executive committee will send to the board of trustees meeting
BarcelonaThe board of directors of the Mobile World Capital Barcelona foundation, the entity linked to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, will appoint Laia Corbella as the new CEO this Monday. As reported by El Periódico and confirmed by the newspaper ARA, Corbella's will be the only name presented to the foundation's board, which will meet in the morning to finalize the succession of Francesc Fajula, the previous CEO, who left the position in May. Fajula, it should be recalled, will be in charge of leading the artificial intelligence gigafactory project in Móra la Nova.
The selection process was carried out by the company Seeliger y Conde, which also handled the succession of Carlos Grau as head of the foundation in 2022, leading to Fajula's appointment. The headhunting firm put forward more than one name to the foundation's executive committee, but ultimately Corbella's will be the only one to reach the board of directors' table.
The presidency of the Capital's board of directors is held by the Barcelona City Council, through the mayor of the city, Jaume Collboni, who will be responsible for proposing the name of the new CEO to the rest of the members. The Generalitat and the Spanish government also form part of it, holding the two vice-presidencies of the body: the Minister of the Presidency, Albert Dalmau, and the Spanish Minister of Digital Transformation, Óscar López. The private sector participates with voices such as the president of Fira de Barcelona, Pau Relat; or the president of the mobile industry association GSMA –organizer of the MWC–, John Hoffman; and relevant companies such as Telefónica, Vodafone, Damm, and CaixaBank also participate.
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Corbella, born in Lleida in 1985, has worked as a journalist in various relevant fields of economy and technology in Catalonia. She was the first director of the digital economic media VIA Empresa, from where she went on to direct the communication of the Department of Business and Knowledge of the Generalitat, during the term of councilor Àngels Chacón. Later she made the leap to the MWCapital foundation, as director of Communication and Institutional Relations, a position she holds until her appointment as new general director.
