Maria Angels Vallvé

She became the first event woman stockbroker agent in Spain, getting her license in 1971.^[2] After her degree in Economics and Law, she specialized as an insurance actuary and financial analyst.^[1]

Once the Stock Market Reform Law was approved in 1989, she worked as a trading broker and, from 2000 until 2012, as a notary in Barcelona. In 1986 she was a founding partner of GVC, an investment services company dedicated to stock and asset management. In 2007 GVC bought the company Gaesco.^[3][4]

She was one of the first ten women who, in 2001, applied to join the Cercle del Liceu in Barcelona, then a male-only organization.^[5] She finally became part of its governing board.^[6] In 2009, she became part of the board of directors of the Orfeó Català, together with Leopoldo Rodés and Ignasi García Nieto.^[7][8] She retired as notary in 2012.^[9]

She is married to economic theory professor, economist and politician Joan Hortalà Arau, and is mother of five children: Joan, Carme, Mercè, Rafael and Joaquim.^[1]