She is the daughter of the industrial engineer, entrepreneur and cultural promoter Joan Vallvé i Creus and Mercè Ribera Rovira.
[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.
[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.
[6] In 2009, she became part of the board of directors of the Orfeó Català, together with Leopoldo Rodés and Ignasi García Nieto.