Adam Wooten
Assistant Professor
Adam is Assistant Professor teaching technology, marketing, and management in the Translation & Localization Management program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Adam is co-founder of AccuLing translation services and co-...
Adrienne Caputo
UX Researcher/ Content Experience Designer
After finishing her undergraduate degree in Philosophy and her master's degree in Spanish linguistics, Adrienne moved to Boston in 2013 where she began her career at a media planning agency. Motivated by her interest in philosophy and language,...
Alex Yanishevsky
Senior Solutions Architect
Currently the Senior Solutions Architect at Welocalize, Alex Yanishevsky has been in the localization industry for over 15 years in a variety of roles. He has written numerous articles for industry journals and presented at industry conferences....
Andrey Moiseev
Director of Language Services Department
Andrey Moiseev is an expert in translation, interpretation and business internationalization with more than 20 years’ experience. He is currently working as Independent Language Services Consultant for FIFA, IOC, EOC and many other big international...
Annette Lawlor
Founder
The founder of Lion People Global, Annette Lawlor is a localization recruitment expert on a mission to make a real difference in this exciting industry. By building lasting relationships with clients, and expanding and diversifying Lion People’s...
Anu Carnegie-Brown
Managing Director
Anu Carnegie-Brown is Managing Director of Sandberg Translation Partners Ltd, a Nordic RLV in the UK with a large in-house staff spread over four offices in three countries. In her 25 years in the industry, Anu has contributed to the growth of three...
Balazs Benedek
Co-Founder
Balázs Benedek is co-founder and CTO of Skawa Innovation Ltd., a company focusing on cloud-based internet solutions and computer-aided automated workflows. With its award-winning EasyLing.com, Skawa is making the website translation process easy for...
Barry Slaughter Olsen
Co-President, InterpretAmerica
Barry Slaughter Olsen, is a veteran conference interpreter and technophile with over two decades of experience interpreting, training interpreters and organizing language services. He is an associate professor at the Middlebury Institute of...
Bill Rivers
Executive Director
Dr. Bill Rivers serves as the Executive Director of the Joint National Committee for Languages, representing more than 140 organizations from all sectors of the Language Enterprise in Washington, DC. A long-time researcher, strategic planner, and...
Britta Aagaard
CEO
CEO of TextMinded®, now part of Semantix. The enthusiastic leader of a passionate team of language professionals, technology experts and innovative minds. Semantix is the leading player in the Nordics and is constantly expanding its own comfort zone...
Camilo Munoz
Co-Founder, Spanish ASAP
Camilo Muñoz (Twitter @Camilo_E_Munoz) has more than 15 years of executive-level and start-up experience in the language localization, investment banking, and real estate industries. He is the CEO/founder of Translation Source and has served as the...
Consol Casablanca
Senior Client Service Director
As the global senior client service director of Welocalize Life Sciences, Consol Casablanca is focused on ensuring the optimum level of service and quality for life sciences industry customers. With a passion for languages, Consol started her career...
Daniel Foster
Strategy lead
Strategy lead for Snagit, the #1 software product used by technical communicators. I love discovering new needs in the market and brainstorming ways they could be addressed through technology. I have also enjoyed sharing new ideas with audiences at...
Dave Ruane
Enterprise BDM EMEA
Dave Ruane is enterprise business development director at Xplanation focusing on the industrial and manufacturing sectors. He has been in the localization industry since the mid-nineties and regularly contributes to industry events and forums....
David Bryant
Chief Operating Officer
Dave Bryant is Dotsub’s COO and the Product Owner of Dotsub V3. During his career, he has spent time in sales, software development, and product management in high-tech before moving into executive management. Dave helped build the growing...
David Čaněk
CEO
David Čanek is the founder and CEO of Memsource, a software company providing cloud translation technology based in Prague, Czech Republic. David, a graduate in Translation and Comparative Studies, received his education at Charles University,...
David Filip
Research Fellow
David Filip is Chair (Convener) of OASIS XLIFF OMOS TC; Secretary, Editor and Liaison Officer of OASIS XLIFF TC; a former Co-Chair and Editor for the W3C ITS 2.0 Recommendation; Advisory Editorial Board member for the Multilingual magazine; co-...
Don DePalma
Chief Strategist and Founder
Don DePalma has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of technology, language services, and market research. As Common Sense Advisory’s (CSA Research) original founder, he is responsible for launching and developing the preeminent market...
Ewandro Magalhaes
VP of Communications
Ewandro Magalhaes is a seasoned conference interpreter and former conference manager in the United Nations system. As the Chief Interpreter of ITU, Ewandro was instrumental in implementing an unprecedented system of remote participation with full...
Gábor Bessenyei
CEO
I was always enthusiastic about the combination of languages and computers, two totally different worlds. One is human and always escapes from being tightened by rules, the other is very formalized and driven by rules. I started my career...
Georg Kirchner
Globalization Technology Manager
Since joining the industry in the early '90s, Georg Kirchner has held various roles in Localization, including DTP engineer, staff translator, program manager, PMO lead and technology manager. At Dell EMC, Georg is responsible for a translation...
George Zhao
President
George Zhao is CEO of VideoLocalize.com, a video localization management system, and President of Boffin Language Group Inc., an Asian language service provider. He has 20+ years experience in the language industry. As a serial...
Giovanni Donatelli
Managing Partner
Award Winning Entrepreneur in the language services industry. Mr. Donatelli founded The Language Group in 1999, and has since established the company as a leading Regional language services provider. Mr. Donatelli has served on the board of...
Haitham Wahab
CEO
CEO of CMI Media, a leading provider of video localization services to corporate markets and the filmed entertainment industry. Having grown up on three continents and a fluent speaker of five languages, he is passionate about intercultural...
Jamie Newall
CEO
Jamie joined Conversis in August 2017 having previously held a number of senior global executive roles in the private equity, finance and natural resources sectors. He was educated at Cambridge University and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and...
Jason Hu
Lead Software Developer
Jason Hu is the lead software developer of VideoLocalize.com, a video localization management system. He has been working in the IT industry for 4 years since his graduation from University of Waterloo with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science...
Jeff Beatty
Head of Localization
Jeff Beatty is the head of localization at Mozilla, the makers of the open source web browser Firefox, as well as an Adjunct Faculty member at Brigham Young University. He holds an MS in multilingual computing and localization from the University of...
Jim Compton
Manager of Technology Parternships
Jim Compton is a localization industry veteran, technologist, and optimist interested in the application of technology toward big-picture globalization challenges. As part of RWS Moravia’s Technology Partnerships team, Jim seeks out capabilities...
John Tessitore
Senior Program Adviser, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
John Tessitore is a Senior Program Adviser at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has served in a variety of capacities at the America Academy, including Program Director, and was the project leader on several national commissions,...
Katarzyna Dryńska
Local Versions Director CEE & Nordics
Katarzyna Dryńska is Local Versions Director at Viacom International Media Networks, the home to global entertainment. She leads localization efforts for TV and digital platforms, working for Central & Eastern Europe as well as the Nordic...
Klaus Fleischmann
Managing Director
Klaus grew up with languages and computers in Austria and the US. He studied conference interpreting in Vienna and Monterey, California, and technical communication at Danube University Krems. After spending many years gaining experience in the US...
Kyle Kristoffersen
Business Development Manager
I am a Czech-speaking American living in the Czech Republic for 6 years now.
Laurence Whitehead
Corporate Finance Partner
Laurence is a senior partner at MHA MacIntyre Hudson in the firm's award-winning corporate finance lead advisory team. Laurence and his team have been recognised at a number of UK M&A award events over recent years. Laurence has also been...
Malon Hamoen-Giraldi
Founder
Malon is the founder of Ludejo BV, a Language and Learning solutions provider in The Netherlands. Her educational and professional background is both varied and instructive in getting to know what makes her tick. With a career which has included...
Marcus Danei
Product Manager
At SAP, Marcus Danei is responsible for defining and implementing the strategic direction for translation technology. Marcus has over 16 years’ experience in the software and localization industries, and has worked in a range of areas within SAP,...
Marcus Graham
Founder & CEO
Since 1985, Marcus Graham, founder and CEO of GM Voices, has helped Fortune 1000 and communications companies improve their brand through studio-produced voices for automated attendant and call center telephony, telematics and other technologies...
Marcus Vaigncourt-Strallen
CEO
A software industry veteran, Marcus co-founded InterpretersPortal in 2009. In 2014 Marcus identified a niche to provide individual travellers with access to professional interpreters, and created whym.global as a specialist LSP addressing...
Mareike Bouriga
Business Development Manager
Mareike holds degrees in International Business, Sales and Languages, and she’s lived in various European countries and speaks English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Arabic. She is a customer-oriented person with a strong language...
Medhat Bassily
Principal Globalization Architect
Medhat is a principal globalization architect and his primary role is to help set the ADP's strategy regarding translation. He helps design the next generation translation/globalization processes using associated tools & technologies. While...
Muntsa Cuchí
Global Sales Director
Muntsa Cuchí is the global sales director at CPSL. She has over 20 years of experience in the localization industry. She started as an interpreter and as a translator to later move into management roles in operations, technology and for the last ten...
Oleksandr Bondarenko
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Oleksandr Bondarenko is a CEO of Translatel Ltd, PhD, associate professor at Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University, European Society for Translation Studies member, author of dozens of scientific...
Patrick Nunes
Director, Global Communications & Design
As somebody who has been actively involved in localization for over 20 years, I am passionate about the strength of our industry and also the constant need for us to keep evolving and re-inventing how we do things. I am an inclusionist: I...
Paula Ferrari
Director of Client Solutions
Back in 2003 I graduated with honors as an English-Spanish Sworn Translator. During some years I worked as a freelance translator specialized in life sciences and started sharing projects and clients with my college colleague and current...
Pedro Gomez
Principal, PM Lead
Pedro Gomez works at Microsoft Corporation, where he leads a global operations team. Pedro has an extensive background in product development, cross-cultural communication, and international business. He holds a BA in natural languages and a Master’...
Rachel Liang
Senior Project Manager
Rachel has been working with SAP Canada for 12 years where she took roles from Localization Engineer, Localization/Translation Project Manager, to Senior Deliver Manager. Rachel has solid experience in software development and project management for...
Roman Zelenka
CEO
I am the CEO (“Chief Energy Officer”) of ZELENKA Translations, a company that my father started in the Czech Republic over 28 years ago. Since taking over the company in 2007, my team and I have been pursuing a single vision: to maximize the value...
Rui Monteiro-Claro
Managing Director
As Managing Director of beyont, Rui heads up the Acclaro arm for review and staffing services. He leads a team of translation and localization experts to fit every client need, from short-term freelance resources to long-term employment candidates....
Sabina Jasinska
Global Marketing and Communications Director, SDL
Sabina Jasinska is the Global Marketing Director for SDL and a Member of the Gala Board of Directors for 2017-2018. Her focus is on building a strong brand and investing in innovative marketing solutions in the rapidly evolving translations market....
Serge Gladkoff
President
Serge Gladkoff graduated from an elite Russian nuclear science college and for more than twenty-four years has been engaged in the localization industry, first as a deputy director for a software distribution company Dialogue-MEPhI, then as a...
Shannon Zimmerman
Executive Vice President, Global Content Solutions
Shannon co-founded Sajan and helped lead the company to unprecedented growth and market leadership over the past two decades. He has over 20 years of experience in technology and language solutions. Propelling Sajan to a top-10 US market leader and...
Sonia Zamborsky
Director, Product Field Support & Communications
As Director of Product Field Support & Communications, Sonia Zamborsky helps optimize Marriott's global eCommerce channels across a diverse portfolio of international products. She provides operations leadership for an extended team at HQ and...
Sophie Halbeisen
Director of Business Development
Sophie Halbeisen is the Director of Business Development at Plunet Inc. in New York and has been working with the company since January 2014. Sophie has an undergraduate degree in business management, a master’s degree in Finance and has 10 years of...
Stafford Quaid
Senior Program Manager
Senior Program Manager in the Microsoft Office Localisation team focused on ensuring the customer experience when using Office products around the world is the best it can be.
Stéphan Déry
Chief Executive Officer
Stéphan Déry was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Translation Bureau effective May 23, 2017. In this role, Stéphan is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership of the Translation Bureau. He oversees translation and...
Susanne Hempel
Linguistic Quality Management
Susanne Hempel is responsible for linguistic quality management at SAP. She has more than 15 years of experience in linguistic quality review, best practices, and guidance. She currently focuses on improving the linguistic guidelines provided to SAP...
Tony O'Dowd
Founder
Tony is a serial entrepreneur with three successful companies behind him. More importantly, he’s a family man, with three kids to keep him up late at night (with worry), a keen musician and mountain trekker. Tony is Founder and Chief Architect...
Tuyen Ho
VP, Corporate Development
Tuyen Ho leads Corporate Development global initiatives at Welocalize. She focuses on driving growth strategies and creating strategic alliances. Prior to Welocalize, Tuyen held leadership roles in sales and operations at technology start-ups in the...
Veronica Costea
Director of Client Services
Veronica Costea works as Director of Client Services at MCIS Language Services. She is a certified translator and interpreter with proficiency in 5 languages. She has wide-ranging experience that includes direct provision of language services,...
Volodymyr Kukharenko
CEO
With a career in translation for over 17 years, Volodymyr Kukharenko advanced from a freelancer to a CEO of a translation agency and founder of a software company. He was translating and self-training as a freelancer, editing and teaching as an...
Łukasz Rejter
Sales Manager for EMEA
Łukasz is the Sales Manager of the EMEA region at Kilgray. He has a 10 years of experience working as a CAT tools trainer and translation processes expert. Before joining Kilgray, Łukasz advised translation agencies, and corporate clients on...