Carlos Bolívar
Co-founder
CEO & National Expansion Manager
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye”.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In addition to being one of the creators of Nóvalo, he is our financial epicentre. However, his soul is a slave to the arts. Creative and a creator, but also meticulous and perfectionist, he always keeps an eye on the detail. Thanks to his knowledge of marketing and advertising and his passion for new technologies, at Nóvalo no one ever loses their way and nothing ever escapes him. His daily attitude focuses on innovation and action, and Nóvalo is his personal laboratory of ideas.
Sandra Lara
Co-founder
Vendor Manager & COO
“Choose a job you love and you will never work a day in your life”.
- Confucio
Another member of Nóvalo's founding triumvirate. A creative multi-tasker, she has a special ability to manage intense work under pressure. She knows the ins and outs of the craft well and values, above all, a job well done, the right answer at the right time and balance in all things. She believes that the Internet is humanity's great invention and always says that she could not live without it.
Valentín Barrantes
Co-founder
CGS, Chief Global Strategist
Postgraduate Coordinator and Lecturer at Complutense University of Madrid (UIML&T)
“They achieved it because they didn’t know it was impossible”.
- Jean Cocteau
Proud to be one of the architects of this business (and life) adventure, he is a tireless and naturally optimistic thinker and his mind is constantly evolving. On the hunt for new challenges, he faces every day with a big dose of exactitude, but with diplomacy, without forgetting that virtue is always found in the middle ground. A writer by vocation, he puts great value on the good use of words.
Jean-Marc Duchi
CTO
TransConnector Founder
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead”.
- Nelson Mandela
Founder of TransConnector SA, a partner and consultant for Nóvalo, his experience of more than 30 years resides mainly in the analysis of business processes and the integration of systems in them. What transcends any attainment is the touch of art and creativity that each can provide him with. Creator and innovator of solutions with strong added values accessible to all.
Cristina Plaza
Production Manager
Lecturer, Degree in Translation and Interpreting at University of Malaga
“There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy: will”.
- Albert Einstein
A restless mind, in love with big challenges. As a project manager, she is versatile and perfectionist, and always offers solutions from her own particular serenity and optimism. Passionate about order, if you don't watch out, she'll organise anything she finds within reach.
Antonio Montañez
International Accounts Manager
“Ideas do not last long. We must do something with them”.
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Versatile and focused on the detail, he has a huge work capacity and great organisational skills. A lover of new technologies, he is dynamic and on the move, always multi-tasking, trying to square the circle. All this with an indispensable dose of humour.
Daniel Ángel
“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow”.
- George Smith
Dynamic and persistent, his ability to adapt and learn continuously is the main hallmark of a professional who cultivates a myriad of challenges, which he does not hesitate to nourish with knowledge and methodology to achieve the best results. He is a method translator who is proud of his work.
Susana Domínguez
“The future has many names. For the weak it means unattainable. For the fearful it means the unknown. For the courageous it means opportunity”.
- Víctor Hugo
Passionate in character and entrepreneurial in spirit, she is organised and meticulous in her work. The perfect explosion of a cocktail that mixes experience, creativity and perfectionism. Her indelible smile brings great positive energy and her brilliant mind is capable of overcoming any challenge.
Mónica Vega
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be”.
- Lao Tse
Lover of change, and the challenges it entails, she faces her daily life with a fighting spirit, eager for new knowledge. She always seeks perfection without losing sight of the human factor behind each translated segment. She values teamwork and is carefully demanding with the detail.
Emilio Lara
IT Manager
Digital Marketing Manager
“There can be no victory without sacrifice: you cannot gain anything in life without sacrificing something in return”.
Edward Elric
Systems technician and technology lover, he is a young computer expert in love with the multimedia world. In constant contact with computers, every day he gets ready to learn to the maximum, setting new goals and demanding ever more of himself. No computer problem can resist him.
Lorena Lara
CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
“The secret to personal motivation can be summed up by the four “C’s”: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage and Constancy”.
- Walter Elias Disney
Resolute and capable, her operations unite all departments. For everything that breaks, she has a cut and paste. Her numbers must add up the first time or there might be trouble. Give her an Excel file and she will move the world.
Natalia Sebastián
Translator and Editor – Senior
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”.
- Marcel Proust
With her motto «Every text can be improved», for each translation she offers a genuine approach which is faithful to the author. She’s methodical, a perfectionist and has great team spirit, always willing to throw herself into any translation challenge that comes her way.
Lorena Ramírez
Junior Project Manager
Lecturer, Degree in Translation and Interpreting at University of Malaga
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn”.
- Benjamin Franklin
Versatile and dynamic, she takes any challenge on with enthusiasm. Creative and cheerful, she enjoys a solitary work in good company. Perfectionist and tenacious, she strongly fights against anything that resists her; challenges pursue her, or is it just the opposite?
María Meléndez
“Whoever damages knowledge is his own murderer”.
- Calderón de la Barca
She is constant and demands a lot of herself. A passionate humanist of science and technology, her curiosity and eagerness to learn lead her to an endless series of challenges. She enjoys the teamwork and the delirium of every day. She can survive without coffee, but music and humour must never be missing. Disorder has not yet won the battle.
Alejandro Morales
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives”.
- Albert Einstein
Big boy, for what he still has to learn and his attitude toward this challenge. He faces every task with the passion it deserves and with the intention of learning from the result. Travelling and photography are his passions. When he is not travelling, he will be thinking about his next destination.
Priscila Castro
“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place”.
- Nora Roberts
A great lover of languages, culture and travel. Her passion for reading since childhood led her to translation. As a translator, she has a versatile, tenacious and perfectionist character, always looking for new goals that make her overcome herself. She values the teamwork and, above all, the organization.
Oleñka Hernández
Translator and Editor – Senior
“If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
- Patrick Rothfuss
Self-demanding in every aspect of her work: four sets of eyes are better than two. She speaks 4 languages and has almost 20 years of experience in the translation industry. However, there is still so much to learn -from everyone.
Miguel Ángel Verdugo
"Nothing is so funny like a total change in one's mind".
- Laurence Sterne
Creative, willing to change the world, making the difficult simple. Simplicity is his premise.
Paula Cantero
"Chance is a bird that never lands".
- Anonymous
Young and hard-working, persistence is her greatest virtue. She never stops until she overcomes her challenges.
Cristina Arenas
"When we can't dream any longer we die".
- Emma Goldman
Enthusiastic, she desires to know the world she inhabits, taking into account science and human factor.
Self-critical and challenging, she loves jobs well done and is always seeking new challenges. Creative and versatile, she uses to change one's perspective. She enjoys words and meanings, traveling and writing. She says that some day will go around the world in a caravan.