C-Suite HotSeat: Recent Episodes
MultiLingual TV and Nimdzi Insights
Brought to you by MultiLingual TV and Nimdzi Insights, the C-Suite HotSeat show is a collection of short conversations with the executives at language service providers worldwide. In these episodes, the hosts from Nimdzi Insights ask a mix of rapid-fire and more in-depth questions to find out how the C-Suite got to where they are today.
As Managing Director of Avantpage Life Sciences, Vera Hooijdonk is adept at juggling projects, time, and people. Vera manages all aspects of the translation process: assessing and distributing workloads, monitoring performance and productivity, managing training and support for team members, communicating client needs to the translation team, overseeing translation technology tools, ensuring that processes and procedures remain cost-effective throughout the life of a project and maintaining quality standards. As a problem solver and troubleshooter, Vera loves working with Avantpage’s clients, understanding their linguistic needs, and learning about new industries and technologies.
Host:
Eddie Arrieta, CEO, MultiLingual
Eddie has a decade of experience in startups, comms, and growth. He's now focused on global expansion through AI, ML, and blockchain to create opportunities for all.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Vera Hooijdonk - Managing Director at Avantpage
00:50 What does your company do?
01:13 What is your role?
01:31 How do you like to spend your free time?
02:10 Career path
04:11 How has the industry changed?
06:13 Advice for newcomers
07:58 Valuable business lesson
10:04 How do you motivate your team?
11:21 Key things to spend time on
12:00 What does success mean to you?
13:04 Would you rehire your current team?
13:39 What makes you a great leader?
14:52 Music or silence?
15:01 Where would you live?
15:24 Most productive time of day
15:32 Most misunderstood part of your job
15:47 Book recommendation
16:12 Favorite drink
16:37 Shoutout
Dareen, Founder of eArabization, a premier Arabic localization and translation company in the Middle East, brings over two decades of expertise to the forefront of the industry. With a steadfast commitment to excellence, I have cultivated eArabization into a trusted partner for businesses seeking to effectively communicate their message to Arabic-speaking audiences.
My journey in localization and translation spans more than 20 years, during which I have honed my skills and deepened my understanding of linguistic nuances and cultural sensitivities. Armed with a Master's degree in Translation from the prestigious University of Leeds in England, I have garnered the knowledge and proficiency necessary to deliver top-tier solutions tailored to our clients' needs.
Hosts:
Eddie Arrieta, CEO, MultiLingual
Eddie has a decade of experience in startups, comms, and growth. He's now focused on global expansion through AI, ML, and blockchain to create opportunities for all.
Laszlo Varga, Lead Researcher and Consultant, Nimdzi Insights
Laszlo has 10+ years in localization and excels in service delivery, solution development & strategy. Enjoys physics, randomness & a healthy lifestyle.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Dareen Mukhaimer, eArabization
00:59 What does your company do?
01:13 What was your dream career as a child?
01:54 How do you like to spend your free time?
02:20 What inspired you to start your company?
03:12 When did you realize you could do money out of this business?
04:29 How big is your team?
04:50 Key things to spend time on
06:06 Biggest challenge
07:41 Your biggest failure
08:29 Valuable business lesson
09:03 What does success mean to you?
10:17 Secret sauce
11:38 What makes you a great leader?
12:54 Advice for entrepreneurs
14:20 Music for working
15:19 Where would you live?
16:04 Movie recommendation
16:29 Most productive time of day
16:46 What's your favorite drink?
17:07 Book recommendation
Jan Cizmar is a visionary entrepreneur and the founder/CEO of Tolgee Company. Since 2008, he has passionately developed web applications, gaining extensive experience in various technologies, languages, tools, and libraries. In March 2021, Jan founded Tolgee, an open-source localization platform for software companies. With his leadership, Tolgee aims to revolutionize the industry by delivering smart and simple software solutions. Jan firmly believes in the future of open source and has simplified software localization for developers with the Tolgee Localization Platform, making it accessible to everyone.
Hosts:
Eddie Arrieta, Head of Growth, MultiLingual
Eddie has a decade of experience in startups, comms, and growth. He's now focused on global expansion through AI, ML, and blockchain to create opportunities for all.
Lazlo Varga, Senior Consultant and Researcher, Nimdzi Insights
Laszlo has 10+ years in localization and excels in service delivery, solution development & strategy. Enjoys physics, randomness & a healthy lifestyle.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Jan Cizmar CEO of Toglee
00:45 What does your company do?
00:59 What was your dream career as a child?
01:40 How do you like to spend your free time?
02:33 3 destinations you'd like to visit
03:24 What is the best advice you've ever been given?
04:37 What inspired you to start your company?
05:56 When did you realize you could make money out of this business?
06:33 Biggest challenge
07:04 Have you ever considered pivoting?
07:36 What makes you a great leader?
08:11 Who are your mentors?
08:35 Secret sauce
08:46 Valuable business lesson
09:28 What is the most innovative thing you have done?
10:19 What does success mean to you?
10:40 Key things to spend time on
11:06 How big is your team?
11:09 Would you rehire your current team?
11:15 Advice for entrepreneurs
12:08 Music or silence?
12:36 Music for working
13:10 Where would you live?
13:14 Movie recommendation
13:23 Last business books you've read?
13:36 Most productive time of day
13:45 Misunderstood career
14:13 What's your favorite drink?
Heather is the mastermind behind Language I/O’s core technology, which eliminates the need for expensive and time-consuming neural machine translation engine training by dynamically selecting the NMT engine that will best translate a given piece of content and imposing company-specific terminology onto any of the many NMT engines integrated into the Language I/O cloud solution.
Prior to co-founding Language I/O, Heather was well-known for globalizing code for Fortune 500s. She was also the senior director of Product Management and Globalization for eCollege, which was acquired by Pearson Education during her tenure. While at Pearson/eCollege, Heather and her team built a next-generation, online college education platform, which was launched globally.
Heather holds a Master of Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Engineering as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies from the University of Washington in Seattle. She has lived in various parts of the United States and Mexico and speaks English and Spanish.
Hosts:
Eddie Arrieta, Head of Growth, MultiLingual
Eddie has a decade of experience in startups, comms, and growth. He's now focused on global expansion through AI, ML, and blockchain to create opportunities for all.
Laszlo Varga, Senior Consultant and Researcher, Nimdzi Insights
Laszlo has 10+ years in localization and excels in service delivery, solution development & strategy. Enjoys physics, randomness & a healthy lifestyle.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Heather Shoemaker Founder&CEO Language IO
00:46 What does your company do?
01:02 What was your dream career as a child?
01:13 How do you like to spend your free time?
01:46 3 destinations you'd like to visit
02:50 Best advice you've ever been given?
03:12 What inspired you to start your company?
05:48 Biggest challenge
06:35 Your biggest failure
07:56 Secret sauce
08:41 Have you ever considered pivoting?
09:19 What does success mean to you?
10:22 How big is your team?
11:06 How do you motivate your team?
12:35 Would you rehire your current team?
12:56 What makes you a great leader?
14:05 Advice for entrepreneurs
15:57 Music for working
16:09 Where would you live?
16:15 Favorite foreign word
16:29 Last business books you've read?
16:47 Most productive time of day
17:01 What's your favorite drink?
Hosts:
Eddie Arrieta, Head of Growth, MultiLingual
Eddie has a decade of experience in startups, comms, and growth. He's now focused on global expansion through AI, ML, and blockchain to create opportunities for all.
Laszlo Varga, Senior Consultant and Researcher, Nimdzi Insights
Laszlo has 10+ years in localization, and excels in service delivery, solution development & strategy. Enjoys physics, randomness & a healthy lifestyle.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Grainne Maycock CRO at Acolad
00:46 What does your company do?
01:07 What was your dream career as a child?
02:04 How do you like to spend your free time?
02:59 3 destinations you'd like to visit
04:17 Best advice you've ever been given?
05:04 What brought you to the Revenue track?
06:55 Biggest challenge
09:18 How do you motivate your team?
11:06 Secret sauce
13:25 Would you rehire your current team?
15:13 Key business challenge
17:14 Advice for entrepreneurs
17:59 How often do you get angry?
18:43 One time when you felt discriminated
19:13 Most uncomfortable conversation?
20:10 Misunderstood career
Xavier Maza, with a background in translation and management, has a diverse professional journey. Starting as a freelance translator in the early 90s, he has transitioned into various management roles in the Language Industry and currently holds the position of Global Client Solutions Manager at iDisc. In his current role, Xavier supervises Sales, Business Strategy, Customer Services, and Global coordination. He collaborates with the Marketing team and reports directly to the CEO.
Hosts:
Inge Boonen, Chief Growth Officer, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Lazlo Varga, Senior Consultant and Researcher, Nimdzi Insights
Laszlo has 10+ years in localization and excels in service delivery, solution development & strategy. Enjoys physics, randomness & a healthy lifestyle.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Xavier Maza-Cid, Global Client Solutions Manager | iDISC
00:52 What does your company do?
01:39 What was your dream career as a child?
03:50 How do you like to spend your free time?
05:00 3 destinations you'd like to visit
06:42 Best advice you've ever been given?
07:13 First breakthrough moment
09:08 How has growth been for?
10:18 Your biggest failure
10:58 Biggest time wasters
11:50 Three key things to spend time on
13:02 What does success mean to you?
14:15 What makes you a great leader?
16:01 Valuable business lesson
16:51 Secret sauce
17:56 Your biggest success
18:59 Advice for entrepreneurs
Eric is the Owner, Founder & CEO of Mastervoice and a member of the Industrial Advisory Committee KU Leuven, a recognized EC expert in simultaneous translation and UN-accredited provider of simultaneous interpreting. He aims to unlock global business potential with online interpreting for international organizations and speakers. He's the author of the book 'Voices from Above' on the transformation from onsite to online interpreting; he strongly believes in human language technology to globalize business.
He is interested in languages, language technology, philosophy, and spirituality.
"I believe language is a unique gift that can change and influence thoughts, lives, and businesses."
Hosts:
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Gabriel Karandyšovský, Chief Operations Officer, Nimdzi Insights
Gabriel specializes in localization, creative writing, business development & project management. He helps clients along the way to international market expansion one research or data-supported step at a time.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Eric Bauwelinck | Owner & Founder of Mastervoice
00:44 What does your company do?
01:21 What was your dream career as a child?
02:10 How do you like to spend your free time?
03:47 3 destinations you'd like to visit
04:35 Best advice you've ever been given?
06:28 What inspired you to start your company?
08:10 Biggest challenge
09:37 Your biggest success
11:23 Valuable business lesson
12:31 The secret sauce!
14:08 How do you motivate your team?
15:04 Pet peeve when it comes to clients
16:24 Have you ever fired a friend or relative?
17:47 Advice for entrepreneurs
Carol G. Velandia Pardo CHI, PMP, MBA, LMSW is a University of Maryland Graduate Professor, language access advocate, award winning curriculum developer, and the founder and CEO of Equal Access Language Services. She Developed the Interprofessional Curriculum: Effective Inclusion through Language Access which will be taught to three different schools at the University of Maryland in Spring 2024. As a social worker, interpreter, academic, and entrepreneur, Carol’s mission is to expand the concepts of Cultural Competence and Diversity Equity and Inclusion by adding language access as a key component. She hopes to promote a cultural shift that will result in the effective inclusion, and equal access of 25 million multilingual people to public and private services, and the betterment of their healthcare, justice, and education outcomes. She enjoys traveling, movies and dancing flamenco!
Hosts:
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Gabriel Karandyšovský, Chief Operations Officer, Nimdzi Insights
Gabriel specializes in localization, creative writing, business development & project management. He helps clients along the way to international market expansion one research or data-supported step at a time.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Carol G. Velandia Pardo | Founder & CEO of Equal Access Language Services
00:40 What does your company do?
00:58 What was your dream career as a child?
02:07 How do you like to spend your free time?
02:39 3 destinations you'd like to visit
05:25 Best advice you've ever been given?
06:13 What inspired you to start your company?
09:06 Biggest challenge
09:36 Your biggest success
11:17 Valuable business lesson
12:09 The secret sauce!
13:18 Who are your mentors?
Ágnes Varga was born in Győr, Hungary, and has been fond of languages all her life. Her desired career path was to study English to become an interpreter or a diplomat. However, with a sudden decision, she chose to study Computer Science in addition to English at the University of Veszprém, which changed her whole career path. After graduating, she became an Assistant Lecturer, then later a Senior Lecturer at the Department of IT at Széchenyi University in her hometown, Győr. During this time, she brought back her love for languages into her PhD thesis about the possibility of automatic post-editing of machine-translated text, which she finished in 2012.
After getting her PhD, memoQ approached her, and she has been working with them for the past 10 years: 7 years as a Software Developer, then a Development Team Lead and Product Manager, and now as a CTO, managing an outstanding Production team.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights
VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Agnes Varga |CTO of memoQ
00:40 What does your company do?
01:14 What was your dream career as a child?
01:57 How do you like to spend your free time?
03:16 3 destinations you'd like to visit
05:16 Best advice you've ever been given?
06:50 A day in the life of a CTO
07:49 Biggest challenge
10:47 First breakthrough moment
13:51 Your biggest failure
16:04 Advice for entrepreneurs
In his leadership role, David brings real-world experience with a focus on medical language access on a national level, sales/ marketing, and health equity. David founded Linguava with just one employee in 2010 and has grown it to more than 75 employees and thousands of linguists in more than 250 languages. He served for 3 years as the president of the Oregon Healthcare Interpreters Association (OHCIA). Currently, he serves as the Chair for the NCIHC Languages of Limited Diffusion (LLD), which provides training and resources to LLD language interpreters and the community. He also has his own podcast titled The Invisible Profession, which provides tools, tips, and resources in the interpretation and translation industry. David is a certified Spanish medical interpreter himself and has a strong passion for achieving health equity for all. He is passionate about helping the Limited English Proficient and Deaf and Hard of Hearing community receive meaningful language access that helps improve patient experience and health outcomes.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights
VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 David Brackett | Founder & CEO of Linguava
00:42 What does your company do?
01:00 What was your dream career as a child?
02:20 How do you like to spend your free time?
03:35 3 destinations you'd like to visit
04:14 Best advice you've ever been given?
05:32 What inspired you to start your company?
07:41 First breakthrough moment
09:02 The secret sauce!
10:57 What makes you a great leader?
12:27 Biggest challenge
13:38 Valuable business lesson
15:37 What does success mean to you?
17:42 Your biggest success
19:06 Advice for entrepreneurs
Dave is the CMO at Wordly, a start-up transforming the live translation market for meetings and events with an AI-powered SaaS solution.
He is a full-stack marketing exec with hands-on experience driving growth for SaaS startups and F-500 tech companies. He has implemented modern digital marketing strategies along with integrated brand, product marketing, and demand gen programs to deliver $400M+ sales growth and $200M+ funding across a range of industries and sales models.
Past companies include HP, AOL, TrustArc, and OPSWAT.
Dave has an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh - and resides in San Mateo, CA.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights
VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Josef Kubovsky, CEO, Nimdzi Insights
Josef uses his unique blend of language, tech, and sales skills to help Nimdzi partners in their pursuit of business excellence and growth.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Dave Deasy, CMO of Wordly
00:40 What does your company do?
00:58 What was your dream career as a child?
02:02 How do you like to spend your free time?
03:01 3 destinations you'd like to visit
03:33 Best advice you've ever been given?
04:19 First Breakthrough
05:37 What made you choose your market vertical?
06:49 Biggest challenge in your day to day
08:24 Your biggest failure
10:43 Your biggest success
11:46 What does success mean to you?
13:28 How do you motivate your team?
15:04 Most innovative thing you've ever done
17:09 Valuable business lessons
18:08 Advice for entrepreneurs
Ludmila Golovine is the President and CEO of MasterWord Services, the fastest organically growing LSP in the world, also named one of the top places to work. She has been recognized for her efforts to support the language services industry and promote language access through awards such as the California Healthcare Interpreting Association (CHIA) Trainer of the Year and the Congressional Recognition G7 “Excellence in International Service” award. Over the course of her career, and through her involvement in many professional organizations, she has helped to create and promote the next generation of standards and best practices for our industry.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights
VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Ludmila Golovine | CEO & Founder of MasterWord
00:43 What does your company do?
01:01 What was your dream career as a child?
02:30 How do you like to spend your free time?
04:10 3 destinations you'd like to visit
05:32 Best advice you've ever been given?
06:52 What inspired you to start your company?
08:31 First breakthrough moment
09:28 Access to information
11:03 Deaf and hard of hearing community
13:29 Valuable business lesson
14:49 Your biggest success
15:48 What is your leadership style?
16:55 Advice for entrepreneurs
Evan Kramer has over 25 years’ of experience managing private equity, and venture-backed companies focused on digital transformation, marketing, and technology. Mr. Kramer has delivered strong investor returns over four different exits.
Prior to joining Motion Point, Kramer was most recently CEO of White Glove, a tech-enabled marketing platform to which he transformed a traditional marketing service into a tech-enabled digital marketing platform. Previously, Kramer led Knowfully Learning Group to 500% growth over 4 years by expanding a professional education company into a digital remote learning ed-tech company that serviced certified professionals across accounting, finance, and healthcare. Before Knowfully, Mr. Kramer was a marketing and technology executive, either General Manager or CMO to Credibly, The Neat Company, LifeShield (sold to DirecTV), EZPrints.com (sold to CafePress), Hubzu.com, and VacationRoost (sold to Ski.com). Mr. Kramer began his career as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Throughout his career, Mr. Kramer has been an active speaker in digital marketing and product management and a board member and advisor to several start-ups. He earned a BBA from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Emory University.
MotionPoint is a managed website translation platform that delivers concierge-level, end-to-end translation to meet the needs of brands across different languages and markets. We're smartly engineered to optimize translation quality, speed, accuracy, and efficiency relative to your brand's translation objectives. We also provide predictable returns on investment in translation over time with ever-improving efficiencies utilizing adaptive translation technologies, a streamlined su
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights
VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Evan Kramer | CEO of MotionPoint
00:37 What does your company do?
00:56 What was your dream career as a child?
01:55 How do you like to spend your free time?
02:44 3 destinations you'd like to visit
03:37 Best advice you've ever been given?
05:29 First breakthrough moment
08:39 Valuable business lessons
10:04 What is the most innovative thing you have done?
11:57 3 things that you spend the most time on
13:26 The secret sauce!
16:19 Advice for entrepreneurs
Scott is a seasoned executive with many years of leadership experience and success in achieving profitable growth in a variety of industries. Scott is the President and CEO of LanguageLine Solutions, the world’s largest provider of on-demand interpretation. He is also the President and Global CEO of Specialized Services for LanguageLine’s parent company, Teleperformance.
Previously Scott held the position of CEO of SuperMedia, Inc. Earlier, Scott served as President and CEO of Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), a leading market research firm; President of Consumer Industries, Retail & Energy division of Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS); and President of PCMall, Inc., a $1.2 billion telesales, catalog, and Internet reseller of computer-related products and COO for PrimeSource Building Products. He also had leadership roles with Pepsico Inc. and Procter & Gamble Company.
A graduate of Syracuse, Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights
VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Josef Kubovsky, CEO, Nimdzi Insights
Josef uses his unique blend of language, tech, and sales skills to help Nimdzi partners in their pursuit of business excellence and growth.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Scott Klein - CEO & President of LanguageLine Solutions
00:39 What does your company do?
00:49 What was your dream career as a child?
01:14 How do you like to spend your free time?
01:57 3 destinations you'd like to visit
03:03 Best advice you've ever been given?
04:35 First breakthrough moment
08:34 What made you choose your market vertical?
11:02 Your biggest failure
13:29 Your biggest success
16:04 What is your pet peeve when it comes to clients?
18:32 How do you motivate your team?
20:26 Advice for entrepreneurs
Tom Bridges is the CEO and Founder of CaptionHub, the platform for multimedia localization. Prior to CaptionHub, he founded and led multiple post-production and motion graphics studios in London.
Hosts:
Josef Kubovsky, CEO, Nimdzi Insights
Josef uses his unique blend of language, tech, and sales skills to help Nimdzi partners in their pursuit of business excellence and growth.
Gabriel Karandyšovský, Chief Operations Officer, Nimdzi Insights
Gabriel specializes in localization, creative writing, business development & project management. He helps clients along the way to international market expansion one research or data-supported step at a time.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Tom Bridges - CEO & Founder | CaptionHub
00:43 What does your company do?
01:20 What was your dream career as a child?
01:55 How do you like to spend your free time?
02:52 3 destinations you'd like to visit
03:37 Best advice you've ever been given?
04:12 What inspired you to start your company?
06:12 First breakthrough moment
06:53 Biggest challenge in your day to day
07:18 Your biggest success
08:24 Who are your mentors?
09:30 Most innovative thing you've ever done
11:32 How do you motivate your team?
12:48 Advice for entrepreneurs
Louise Callcott-Stevens is co-founder and CEO of EarCandy, the world’s leading media and entertainment localization Provider for Africa.
An African mother-tongue advocate, Louise was voted one of the top 100 most influential people in Content Localization in 2021 and the top 10 in 2022. Her passion for her continent motivates her to contribute to shaping a positive African narrative and making media accessible to African audiences in their own language.
Louise is an international speaker, has a qualification in Women’s Leadership from the University of Stellenbosch Business School, and is currently the chairperson of the Entertainment Globalization Association Education Committee.
Hosts:
Josef Kubovsky, CEO, Nimdzi Insights
Josef uses his unique blend of language, tech, and sales skills to help Nimdzi partners in their pursuit of business excellence and growth.
Gabriel Karandyšovský, Chief Operations Officer, Nimdzi Insights
Gabriel specializes in localization, creative writing, business development & project management. He helps clients along the way to international market expansion one research or data-supported step at a time.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Louise Callcott-Stevens Co-Founder & CEO | EarCandy
00:42 What does your company do?
02:18 What was your dream career as a child?
03:43 How do you like to spend your free time?
04:00 3 destinations you'd like to visit
08:21 Best advice you've ever been given?
09:11 What inspired you to start your company?
10:23 First breakthrough moment
11:26 Biggest challenge in your day to day
12:23 3 things that you spend the most time on
13:30 Biggest challenge
15:27 Your biggest success
16:37 How do you motivate your team?
17:28 Most out of the box thing you've ever done?
17:46 What is your pet peeve when it comes to clients?
18:11 Advice for entrepreneurs
A lawyer and award-winning entrepreneur, Gary Kalaci is CEO of Alexa Translations, a professional translation services firm, and Alexa Translations A.I., a leader in translation technology. In addition to steering his translation company's strategy and growth efforts, Gary has held leadership positions and sat on the boards of directors at several professional associations and not-for-profit organizations.
Gary’s business and legal training armed him with the skills required to work with clients across the finance, corporate, legal, and government sectors.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights
VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Gary Kalaci | CEO of Alexa Translations A.I.
00:39 What does your company do?
00:47 What was your dream career as a child?
01:17 What made you choose the language industry?
02:35 How do you like to spend your free time?
03:21 3 destinations you'd like to visit
04:08 Best advice you've ever been given?
04:45 First breakthrough moment
06:28 Biggest challenge
09:41 Your biggest success
11:47 3 things that you spend the most time on
12:57 What are your clients looking for?
14:22 Valuable business lessons
15:48 Advice for entrepreneurs
16:25 How do you motivate your team?
Bryan Murphy is the CEO of Smartling, a Translation and Localization software company servicing hundreds of global companies. Formerly Murphy was the VP of Vertical Markets at eBay and CEO and Co-Founder of WHI, a SaaS company, acquired by ebay in 2012. He has also served as CEO of Breather and as President of Digital for Serta Simmons.
Murphy serves as a director for Smarting, JEGS.com and Playpower . He is also an advisor for Starboard Capital Partners, and is a former director of Neighborly and PartsSource.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights
VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Bryan Murphy | CEO of Smartling
00:43 What does your company do?
01:11 What was your dream career as a child?
02:55 How do you like to spend your free time?
03:53 3 destinations you'd like to visit
05:12 Best advice you've ever been given?
06:37 What made you choose the language industry?
09:14 First breakthrough moment
10:54 Biggest challenge
12:44 What does success mean to you?
15:13 Who are your mentors?
17:30 How do you motivate your team?
19:20 Advice for entrepreneurs
Mark Lawyer is the General Manager – Trados for RWS Group, responsible for leading and developing the go-to-market strategy with the product, R&D, sales, account management, service delivery, and partnerships.
For two decades, Mark has worked with many of the top global fortune 500 companies with a passion for global content and technology, always putting the customer and people at the center of it. He has a proven track record of growing and developing high-performing teams through personal integrity and executive leadership.
Based in New York, Mark holds a degree in Communication and International Business. When not working he enjoys spending time outdoors with his family.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights
VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Mark Lawyer | Trados
00:42 What does your company do?
01:08 What was your dream career as a child?
02:07 How do you like to spend your free time?
03:15 3 destinations you'd like to visit
06:13 Best advice you've ever been given?
07:22 First breakthrough moment
08:24 Biggest challenge
09:29 Valuable business lessons
10:33 Who are your mentors?
11:28 What does success mean to you?
13:29 What makes you a great leader?
14:24 How do you motivate your team?
15:24 3 things that you spend the most time on
16:50 Advice for entrepreneurs
Quentin has led THG Fluently, formerly Language Connect, since their acquisition by The Hut Group in 2018. Since taking on Fluently, he has grown revenues and EBITDA year on year and developed a winning client localization proposition alongside the eCommerce experts at THG Ingenuity.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights, Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Quentin Naylor 00:35 What does your company do? 01:05 What was your dream career as a child? 04:03 What is your role? 05:33 3 destinations you'd like to visit 06:50 Best advice you've ever been given? 09:00 Biggest challenge 11:15 Valuable business lessons 14:11 What does success mean to you? 14:46 What is the most innovative thing you have done? 16:44 Your biggest failure 18:59 Advice for entrepreneurs
For Shamus, discipline is his driving force. Early in his career, it was the discipline of biological science and now it’s the unwavering discipline needed to successfully grow an enterprise. As Vice President for Interpreters Unlimited, Shamus has broad oversight of sales management, multi-regional operations, and business strategy. He follows in his father Sayed Ali's footsteps with his entrepreneurial spirit and keen business sense, doing whatever it takes to help the business succeed, always with his eyes on the future, and always open to and looking for new opportunities to expand and grow.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Shamus Sayed 00:38 What does your company do?
Burcu Demirörs is a co-founder and CEO at HeliCo Translation. After translating millions of words and simultaneously interpreting for ten thousand hours, she built a translation and interpretation company that now serves hundreds of clients worldwide with a full-time team of 14. She is a hard-working and determined individual with a motivated mindset to help her start each day positively and do whatever it takes to reach her goals in life. Burcu is also one of the best women paragliding pilots in Turkey as well as she drives a Harley Davidson bike. She believes that one should always have a second passion apart from business, and only by this can one stay motivated for growth.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Burcu Demirörs 00:40
Leonid Glazychev originally specialized in plasma physics and computer simulation graduated with honors (M. Sc.) and holds a Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics. He was lucky to join one of the first ever software localization projects, and that turned out to be a life-changer. Leonid co-founded Logrus, a professional software localization company when even the concept itself was somewhat novel, and served as the company’s CEO since then. Over the last 28+ years, we (now Logrus IT) have grown from 3 employees to 160+, with multiple offices around the world, including China, Korea (added in 2017), and Turkey (added in 2022). His goal is to bring some hard-core, fundamental, objective, and unbiased scientific approach and knowledge to the areas traditionally occupied by project managers and linguists. He is relentlessly challenging common knowledge, traditional ways, and widespread prejudice, and enjoys working with people and demonstrating creative thinking.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news on the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
Peter Reynolds is Co-CEO at memoQ and has previously worked at Idiom, Berlitz GlobalNet, Bowne Global Solution, and Lionbridge. Peter has been actively involved in the development and promotion of standards for over a decade. He holds an BSc and an MBA degree from Open University and is a localization and translation industry veteran.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Peter Reynolds 00:42 What does your company do? 01:12 What was your dream career as a child?
Peter founded Argo Translation, originally based in Milwaukee, WI, in 1995. Prior to transferring his love of all things international and his savvy business expertise into Chicago's premier translation agency, he attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he graduated with a major in finance and human resource management. After graduation, he went on to become an Italian translator and project manager for an international medical equipment manufacturer and major airline. Peter grew up in a home steeped in Italian tradition, a language which he spoke and in which eventually became fluent. In his non-translation life, and when he’s not busy overseeing company operations, Peter travels, goes for an energetic neighborhood run, and enjoys hanging out with his wife and son. He has also coached the local Little League, baseball teams. Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights N
ika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Peter Argondizzo 00:54 What does your company do?
Avi Staiman is the founder and CEO of Academic Language Experts, a company dedicated to assisting academic scholars to prepare their research for publication and bring it to the world. He also is the co-host of the New Books Network 'Scholarly Communication' Podcast. Avi has been a guest lecturer at NYU's Master's Program in Translation & Interpreting, The University of Tokyo, and Bar Ilan University.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news on the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Avi Staimab 00:40 What does your company do? 01:17 What was your dream c
Georg Ell is the recently appointed CEO of Memsource. He brings more than 15 years of experience in the technology sector, having previously held senior leadership roles at Tesla, Yammer and Microsoft.
Read more on Georg's recent appointment to CEO on multilingual.com: https://multilingual.com/georg-ell-ap...
Learn more about the show and sign up for the mailing list on: https://www.nimdzi.com/c-suite-hotseat/ Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
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Hosts:
Josef Kubovsky, CEO, Nimdzi Insights Josef uses his unique blend of language, tech, and sales skills to help Nimdzi partners in their pursuit of business excellence and growth.
Gabriel Karandyšovský, Chief Operations Officer, Nimdzi Insights Gabriel specializes in localization, creative writing, business development & project management. He helps clients along the way to international market expansion one research or data-supported step at a time.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. <
Olivera is one of the GORR’s founding duo, involved in all levels of business development, but with a special focus on vendor and key account management. Not really a morning person, so she starts her day with a very large coffee.
Learn more about the show and sign up for the mailing list on: https://www.nimdzi.com/c-suite-hotseat/ Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
Hosts:
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Inge is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Gabriel Karandyšovský, Chief Operations Officer, Nimdzi Insights Gabriel specializes in localization, creative writing, business development & project management. He helps clients along the way to international market expansion one research or data-supported step at a time.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00
Fernando Gargano is CEO at Paras and Associates, a Bay Area company that manages language technology and quality assurance for the Health Care Interpreter Network (HCIN). He is also the founder and CEO of Valhalla Mobile Technologies, a company that builds tablet carts for healthcare organizations. Prior to his current roles, Fernando had nearly 20 years of experience in healthcare language access – first as a Portuguese medical interpreter and later as manager of more than 50 staff interpreters at Cambridge Health Alliance, an HCIN member organization and public safety-net health system affiliated with Harvard and Tufts medical schools. Fernando is a licensed private pilot and studied Aviation Administration at Utah Valley University.
Learn more about the show and sign up for the mailing list on: https://www.nimdzi.com/c-suite-hotseat/
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
Hosts: Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Inge is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Gabriel Karandyšovský, Chief Operations Officer, Nimdzi Insights Gabriel specializes in localization, creative writing, business development & project management. He helps clients along the way to international market expansion one research or data-supported step at a time.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Welcome 00:41 What does your company do? 02:11 Your dream career as a kid 02:55 How do you like to spend your free time? 03:15 3 destinations you'd like to visit 03:52 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 04:44 First Breakthrough 07:33 What does success mean to you? 08:17 How to motivate your team 09:05 Advice for entrepreneurs 11:43 What makes you a great leader? 12:02 Most innovative thing you've ever done?
Daniel Gray has extensive expertise in business process outsourcing, professional services, enterprise SaaS/PaaS, cloud computing, localization/translation, crowdsourcing, media/entertainment, and web hosting/bare metal IT infrastructure. He's now the Chief Revenue Officer at Blend, with a history of high-tech sales leadership, commercial strategy, sales innovation and revenue growth for early phase disruptive companies/divisions to $100M ARR within Unicorns and Fortune 10s of $1B+.
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Josef Kubovsky, CEO, Nimdzi Insights Josef uses his unique blend of language, tech, and sales skills to help Nimdzi partners in their pursuit of business excellence and growth.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Daniel Gray 00:39 What does your company do? 01:20 Your dream career as a kid 01:50 How do you like to spend your free time? 02:25 3 destinations you'd like to visit 03:03 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 03:26 Favorite Book 04:07 Why did you end up in sales? 05:24 First Breakthrough 06:48 What does success mean to you? 08:26 3 things that you focus on 10:18 Your biggest challenge 11:12 Your biggest success 12:13 Your best innovation 13:23 Advice for entrepreneurs
Charles Lesperance is President and CEO of OXO Innovation and Communications Transcript. A lawyer by training and a member of the Quebec Bar, Charles discovered a passion for helping companies go global when he worked in international tax law at KPMG. Having co-founded OXO Translation in Montreal in 2013, he now channels this passion into helping clients communicate across borders and expanding OXO’s own frontiers.Charles plays an important role in decision-making for the company and is responsible for implementing its vision, overseeing operations, managing key accounts and developing new markets. Charles led OXO’s 2018 merger with the Brazilian company Ccaps and its 2019 acquisition of Communications Transcript and continues to seek opportunities for growth. He also sits on the board of the Language Industry Association of Canada (AILIA), an organization that promotes the competitiveness of Canadian language service companies.
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Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Charles Lesperance 00:39 What does your company do? 01:21 What was your dream career as a child? 01:56 How do you like to spend your free time? 02:46 3 destinations you'd like to visit 03:21 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 04:39 First breakthrough moment 05:23 What inspired you to start your company? 06:33 Biggest challenge 07:22 What is your leadership style? 08:30 Your biggest failure 10:29 What is your biggest weakness? 11:34 Advice for entrepreneurs 12:18 What does success mean to you?
Gagan provides leadership to GlobalStep, a world leader in technology services that is on a fast growth track based on the sound business model of creating value for customers by providing solutions that reduce costs and enhance capability. Prior to working at GlobalStep, he was a strategy and operations partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. And before that, he held senior operational positions in high-tech manufacturing where he honed quality assurance skills in the manufacture of high-precision electronic components. He was an early adopter of the ISO 9000 standards in the early 90's.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights
Sarah is VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Inge is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.
Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - PM, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Gagan Ahluwalia 00:50 What does your company do? 01:17 What was your dream career as a child? 01:41 How do you like to spend your free time? 02:45 3 destinations you'd like to visit 03:50 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 04:34 What inspired you to start your company? 05:27 First breakthrough moment 06:49 Doing business the old-fashioned way 07:31 Biggest challenge 08:56 How do you motivate your team? 10:58 3 things that you spend the most time on 13:42 Advice for entrepreneurs
Astrid van Rossum is an authentic and empowering executive, with 12 years of experience in the interpreting business. Prior to joining Global Talk, Astrid held multiple leadership roles within the profit and non-profit organizations. She has spent the past 6 years transforming the organization from a former government agency into a highly successful commercial organization. She did so by focusing not only on the customers, profitability, and quality of the services. She has chosen deliberately to start building the best team possible. She's always looking for ways to improve the business by empowering colleagues and creating a culture where people take responsibility and are facilitated to do their job to the best of their abilities.
Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers. Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - PM, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Astrid van Rossum 00:44 What does your company do? 00:57 What was your dream career as a child? 01:46 How do you like to spend your free time? 03:05 3 destinations you'd like to visit 03:46 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 04:35 First breakthrough moment 05:31 Your biggest failure 06:12 What does success mean to you? 06:26 3 things that you spend the most time on 07:14 What makes you a great leader? 08:15 Biggest challenge 09:11 Pet peeve when it comes to clients 09:44 A big waste of time 10:23 How do you motivate your team? 10:57 Advice for entrepreneurs
Ever since my father’s career in the US Air Force moved me and my family to Italy I’ve been fascinated with language, culture, travel, and adventure. Today, I’m fortunate to lead Keylingo - a Language Services Provider (LSP) based in Atlanta, GA that I founded in my basement in 2004. Our people and our work touch every continent, except Antarctica. In summary, the services we provide - translation, localization, and interpretation to name a few - enable companies to grow and succeed in the global marketplace. We’ve developed expertise in manufacturing, e-learning, software, websites, intellectual property, marketing, healthcare, education, media, and government.
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.
Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.
This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design
00:00 Frederick Marx00:41 What does your company do?01:00 What was your dream career as a child?01:44 How do you like to spend your free time?02:42 3 destinations you'd like to visit03:48 What is the best advice you've ever been given?04:43 What inspired you to start your company?05:29 What made you choose your vertical market?06:29 First breakthrough moment07:33 What makes you a great leader?08:26 Your biggest failure09:04 3 things that you spend the most time on09:59 Are you a visionary?10:54 Pet peeve when it comes to clients12:07 Advice for entrepreneurs
Kimon is the Founder/Chairman of Argos Multilingual, a top global language service provider. Kimon has led four successful acquisitions in the language industry and is a strong believer in M&A as a powerful growth tool available to all business owners. Kimon was born in New York and moved to Krakow in 1993 where he currently lives. A podcast of Kimon's story can be found here: http://projectkazimierz.com/kimon-fou... Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers. Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - PM, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Kimon Fountoukidis 00:45 What does your company do? 01:01 What was your dream career as a child? 02:32 How do you like to spend your fr
Diego Cresceri is CEO & Founder of Creative Words and co-founder of Creative AI. His clients include multilingual translation agencies, Italian companies aiming to internationalize, and foreign companies aiming to enter the Italian market. He is currently the President of the Board of Directors of ELIA, the European Language Industry Association. At Creative Words he is responsible for the company's strategy and growth. With a strong inclination to share, when not involved in his company he holds workshops and seminars on innovation, artificial intelligence, and machine translation at universities, training schools, and language associations nationally and internationally. He enjoys spending his (little) free time with his two kids.
00:00 Diego Cresceri 00:50 What does your company do? 01:07 What was your dream career as a child? 01:52 How do you like to spend your free time?02:33 3 destinations you'd like to visit03:22 What is the best advice you've ever been given?03:46 What inspired you to start your company?05:04 First breakthrough moment 06:05 When was the moment that you realized that you can make some serious money out of this?06:54 Your biggest failure 07:37 What was your biggest success?08:40 Do you have a mentor? 09:00 What would you say was the most innovative thing that you've ever done?09:37 How do you motivate your team?11:16 Advice for entrepreneurs.
Belén Agulló García, VP of Learning and Lead Media Researcher at Nimdzi Insights Belén is a multimedia localization consultant, researcher, and translator with a passion for game accessibility. Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers. Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications
Vera Richards has spent over 20 years in various positions within the language industry. With a passion for removing language and cultural barriers and helping bridge communication gaps, she has worked on the client side and for the past 15 years on the language service provider side, always keeping the target global audiences at the forefront of her mind. Vera embraces the constant evolution in the localization process and technologies and sees it as an enriching and exciting challenge. In her current role as a President of Language Services at Akorbi, she focuses on matching talented individuals with new technologies fulfilling the growing global market needs. Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers. Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Vera Richards 00:45 What does your company do? 00:55 What was your dream career as a child? 01:33 3 destinations you'd like to visit 03:02 How do you like to spend your free time?
Olivier Marcheteau is an experienced International leader with a track record of over 15 years leading growth companies to enable them to succeed and scale in highly competitive, international, and technologically driven environments. He has experience managing large and complex businesses as well as structuring and driving to success smaller, more entrepreneurial organizations. Olivier is an expert in strategy, B2C and B2B sales & marketing, technology, and innovation as well as M&A and investors relationships. Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers. Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Oliver Marcheteau 00:42 What does your company do? 01:08 What was your dream career as a child? 02:44 How do you like to spend your free time? 03:57 3 destinations you'd like to visit 05:18 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 06:05 What makes you a great leader? 08:33 What does success mean to you? 11:06 Your biggest failure 11:48 3 things that you spend the most time on 13:10 Advice for entrepreneurs
Luis Miguel is the CEO at Avantpage, Inc. Luis is responsible for our mission to provide immigrants with the opportunity to reach their American dream. Luis is passionate about helping our clients communicate effectively with immigrants in a language they can both understand. With over 20 years of leadership experience in the translation industry, Luis works to the benefit of our clients and the immigrant community. Belén Agulló García, VP of Learning and Lead Media Researcher at Nimdzi Insights Belén is a multimedia localization consultant, researcher, and translator with a passion for game accessibility. Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Inge is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers. Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Luis Miguel Musi 00:43 What does your company do? 00:57 What was your dream career as a child? 02:08 3 destinations you'd like to visit 03:29 How do you like to spend your free time? 04:16 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 05:06 What inspired you to start your company 06:39 First breakthrough moment 07:30 What made you choose your vertical market? 08:45 When did you realize you could make money out of this business? 09:41 3 things that you spend the most time on 10:37 Your biggest failure 11:10 Big waste of time? 11:59 Your biggest success 12:49 Advice for entrepreneurs
John Fennelly is the CEO of Lionbridge, the pioneer and leader in translation and localization services. As CEO, he is leading our 6,000 employees in over 50 countries. Since joining Lionbridge, John has led a major transformation of the company and returned it to growth. Prior to joining Lionbridge, John was the CEO of HireRight, a leader in the HCM technology space. There, he engineered a major turnaround effort that resulted in record revenue and earnings growth and led to a successful sale of the company. He has also held executive leadership positions at a number of information services companies, including Thomson Reuters and Sungard. Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers. Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 John Fennelly 00:42 What does your company do? 01:32 3 destinations you'd like to visit 03:11 How do you like to spend your free time? 03:59 Favorite book?
Edward Vick founded EVS Translations - a language services provider - in Germany in 1991. The company operates across Europe and the USA helping multinationals, SMEs and government institutions to manage the demand for multilingual digital content and information. It is consistently ranked as a world top 100 LSP by market research companies in the localization space, and as a world top 20 LSP for the finance sector. Despite being raised in Canada and the UK, Edward lives in Germany with his family. He enjoys collecting art, as well as reading good literature. Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers. Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Edward Vick 00:49 What does your company do? 01:47 What was your dream career as a child? 03:15 How do you like to spend your free time? 03:39 What is the best advice you've ever been given?
Nic McMahon has been around the blocks, senior management roles at localization companies big and small, including SDL, Lionbridge, and Jonckers - now, after joining ULG when his company VIA was purchased 4 years ago, Nic is CEO of United Language Group a PE-backed top 20 language and cultural solutions company. Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers. Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Nicholas McMahon 00:41 What does your company do? 01:08 What was your dream career as a child? 01:56 How do you like to spend your free time? 03:21 3 destinations you'd like to visit 04:24 What is the best advice you've ever been given?
Geert is the founder and CEO of Yamagata Europe, and director at Yamagata Corporation in Japan. Geert holds an MA in Chinese and Japanese languages and an MBA from the Vlerick Business School. He started as a programmer working in the textile industry where he first learned the Japanese quality philosophy. After two extra years of studying in Japan he moved to the localization & translation industry in 1991 and founded Yamagata Europe in 1998. Today Yamagata Europe employs over 60 information specialists, with offices in Ghent (Belgium) and Bratislava (Slovakia). The company creates, translates, manages, and prints technical and marketing information for international companies in a wide variety of industries. Learn more about the show and sign up for the mailing list on: https://www.nimdzi.com/c-suite-hotseat/ Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. Hosts: Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Inge is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers. Gabriel Karandyšovský, Chief Operations Officer, Nimdzi Insights Gabriel specializes in localization, creative writing, business development & project management. He helps clients along the way to international market expansion one research or data-supported step at a time. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Geert Benoit 00:43 What does your company do? 00:59 Your dream career as a kid 01:51 3 destinations you'd like to visit 03:17 How do you like to spend your free time? 04:10 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 05:07 First Breakthrough 06:43 3 things that you spend your time on 07:23 Your biggest failure 08:09 Your biggest success 09:02 What makes you a great leader? 09:17 Pet peeve when it comes to clients 09:49 Advice for entrepreneurs
Krzysztof Zdanowski is an entrepreneur. He grew up in a Polish-Canadian family, studied and graduated from the Tischner European University in Poland and the European University of Rome in Italy. In 2009 he built his first business – now, with annual revenue exceeding USD 25m, one of the top 100 largest multilingual data management providers in the world. As CEO of Summa Linguae Technologies, he has developed a unique business model based on a combination of organic growth and M&A strategy. He took the company public (SUL, Warsaw Stock Exchange), raised multiple angel and PE equity and debt rounds (USD 30m+) and managed a number of mergers and acquisitions (Poland, India, Romania, Scandinavia, USA and Canada). Krzysztof is fascinated by processes of innovation in cultural and business environments. He has invested and advised in 30+ equity/debt projects. Krzysztof frequently keynotes conferences and has been a mentor, panelist and speaker at 100+ events. Essentially, Krzysztof is an entrepreneur, investor and a licensed airplane pilot. He is also an active long-distance runner. Learn more about the show and sign up for the mailing list on: https://www.nimdzi.com/c-suite-hotseat/ Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. Hosts: Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Inge is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers. Gabriel Karandyšovský, Chief Operations Officer, Nimdzi Insights Gabriel specializes in localization, creative writing, business development & project management. He helps clients along the way to international market expansion one research or data-supported step at a time. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Krzysztof Zdanowski 00:43 What does your company do? 01:04 Your dream career as a kid 01:51 3 destinations you'd like to visit 02:53 How do you like to spend your free time? 03:21 What inspired you to start your own company? 04:07 First Breakthrough 05:15 3 things that you spend your time on 07:02 Your biggest failure 08:24 What is success? 08:42 How to motivate your team? 10:03 Advice for entrepreneurs
Christophe Djaouani is a global executive leading teams in EMEA, NASA, and APAC. He's highly motivated with +20 years’ experience helping customers in highly regulated industries communicate with confidence. With a proven track record working with Fortune 500 clients and an in-depth knowledge of current trends in multilingual communications, he is client focused, and strives to find the best long-term solutions. He has honed evaluation skills, vision and drive to grow the business with a carefully selected, motivated and well-organized workforce. Learn more about the show and sign up for the mailing list on: https://www.nimdzi.com/c-suite-hotseat/ Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. Hosts: Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights Sarah is VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, and conference interpreter DE to EN by trade. Josef Kubovsky, CEO, Nimdzi Insights Josef uses his unique blend of language, tech, and sales skills to help Nimdzi partners in their pursuit of business excellence and growth. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Christophe Djaouani 00:41 What does your company do? 01:03 Your dream career as a kid 02:00 How do you like to spend your free time? 02:51 3 destinations you'd like to visit 03:31 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 04:34 First Breakthrough 07:09 What does success mean to you? 07:42 What makes you a great leader? 10:09 Did you ever have to fire a friend or family member? 10:52 Advice for entrepreneurs
Andreas Jacobi is a seasoned localization industry expert and CEO at Lyngual. Previously he held executive and senior management roles at large translation providers. He is a translation industry expert with a special focus on process automation and optimization. Andreas is a serial entrepreneur and investor, he has outstanding sales skills and extensive experience in global large ticket and enterprise sales.
Learn more about the show and sign up for the mailing list on: https://www.nimdzi.com/c-suite-hotseat/ Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. Hosts: Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights Sarah is VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, and conference interpreter DE to EN by trade. Marek Jakúbek, Business Development Manager, Nimdzi Insights Entrepreneurship, a natural talent for bringing people together, and a passion for the localization industry push Marek to strive to uncover opportunities for creating value. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Andreas Jacobi | Lyngual 00:40 What does your company do? 01:01 Your dream career as a kid 01:10 How do you like to spend your free time? 01:51 Three destinations you'd like to visit 02:19 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 03:01 Who is your mentor? 04:24 What inspired you to found your company? 07:11 First Breakthrough 08:13 Pet peeve when it comes to clients 09:25 Your biggest failure 10:22 Pet peeve when it comes to clients 10:37 One big challenge in your path 11:20 Three things that you spend your time on? 11:45 What makes you a great leader? 14:14 Advice for entrepreneurs
Since the time of this recording Elizabeth has moved to a new career opportunity, and is no longer with LanguageLoop. With more than 20 years' experience working in executive roles across financial services, automotive and government, Elizabeth Compton is now on a mission to digitally transform language services. She works with Australia's largest corporates to ensure that across any customer touch point and journey, customers can interact with the businesses that serve them. Anywhere, anytime, any channel in ANY language. Her passion is improving outcomes for customers, understanding their needs and delivering the products and services to serve them. Using the latest tech, driving business transformation, strategy implementation and by focusing on getting the best out of people to deliver great outcomes. Learn more about the show and sign up for the mailing list on: https://www.nimdzi.com/c-suite-hotseat/ Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. Hosts: Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights Sarah is VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, and conference interpreter DE to EN by trade. Marek Jakúbek, Business Development Manager, Nimdzi Insights Entrepreneurship, a natural talent for bringing people together, and a passion for the localization industry push Marek to strive to uncover opportunities for creating value. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Elizabeth Compton | LanguageLoop 00:40 What does your company do? 01:18 Your dream career as a kid 01:55 How do you like to spend your free time? 02:43 Three destinations you'd like to visit 03:38 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 04:58 First Breakthrough 06:46 3 things that you spend the most time on 08:14 Have you ever worked in sales? 09:11One big challenge in your path 09:41 Your biggest failure 10:10 What is the meaning of success? 11:07 Pet peeve when it comes to clients 11:21 Advice for entrepreneurs
Antonio Tejada started his career as a software localization linguist in 1991 and he has since been involved with the industry in multiple capacities, performing senior roles in Operations, Sales, and Technology for organizations like SDL and Capita TI. He has managed businesses in Ireland, Spain, and, at present, the UK, with a strong emphasis on innovation and the use of technology. Outside of languages, Antonio was also a CEO for a Telecoms business deploying high-speed wireless broadband in large, rural areas. He has witnessed the early adoption of Translation Memory, Machine Translation, and more generally the revolution of the Internet and the use of mobile technologies. Learn more about the show and sign up for the mailing list on: https://www.nimdzi.com/c-suite-hotseat/ Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. Hosts: Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade Marek Jakúbek, Business Development Manager, Nimdzi Insights Entrepreneurship, a natural talent for bringing people together, and a passion for the localization industry push Marek to strive to uncover opportunities for creating value. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Welcome 00:43 What does your company do? 01:00 Your dream career as a kid 01:17 How do you like to spend your free time? 02:14 3 destinations you'd like to visit 03:18 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 04:19 First Breakthrough 06:00 The best moment of your career 07:32 Your biggest failure 09:02 A waste of time 10:22 What makes you a great leader? 11:34 Pet peeve when it comes to clients 12:39 Advice for entrepreneurs 13:13 Find your unique identity
Véronique Özkaya is chief executive officer at Argos Multilingual. Prior to her role at Argos, she was CEO at Xplanation. Earlier in her career, Véronique held senior roles at Lionbridge and Moravia, where she worked with top brands in technology, life sciences, and financial services. Véronique is a former GALA board chair. Hosts: Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights Sarah is VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, and conference interpreter DE to EN by trade. Josef Kubovsky, CEO, Nimdzi Insights Josef uses his unique blend of language, tech, and sales skills to help Nimdzi partners in their pursuit of business excellence and growth. Learn more about the show and sign up for the mailing list on: https://www.nimdzi.com/c-suite-hotseat/ Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Welcome 00:44 What does your company do? 01:02 Your dream career as a kid 01:22 How do you like to spe