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 | | Silvia Avary-Silveira
Silvia is a Senior Localization Manager at VeriSign. She joined the company in early 2005 and has been working with the international web team since. A native of Brazil who has been living in the U.S for the past twelve years, Silvia started her localization career doing translations and interpretations for several companies in the Bay Area. Silvia has over eight years of localization experience and she is fluent in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. She has a marketing background and holds an MBA from San Francisco State University. Silvia has participated in numerous conferences and seminars and is the co-founder of a professional organization called NCWL (Northern California Women in Localization), which aims to create a forum for women to develop their careers in localization and share experiences. |  |  | | Katia Azevedo
Katia is the Language Services Manager for Xerox Global Services, North America Operations. Xerox Product Lifecycle Communication Services provides outsourced services, including consulting, content creation, translation, localization, learning and multi-channel publishing services. The goal is to help clients standardize, design, manage and deliver product and service information for a successful launch through to the ongoing customer experience. Katia has over 24 years of experience in the translation and localization industry and has participated in and presented at several localization events in the United States. Katia has a Bachelor degree in Language and Literature from the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), and received her Masters of Science degree with Honors in Strategic Leadership from the Roberts Wesleyan College at Rochester, New York in 2001. | |  | | Renato Beninatto
Renato is the CEO and Chief Instigator of Milengo, a full-service worldwide provider of localization, engineering and testing services with operations in 18 key markets across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Renato has forged a reputation for visionary leadership, most recently as the Cofounder and former Chief Connector of Common Sense Advisory, the industry's foremost market research firm. Previously, Renato served as the vice president of sales at both ALPNET and Berlitz, where he drove global growth and profitability. His signature, straight-talking approach has made this Brazilian citizen a sought-after speaker on localization industry trends. | | 
| | Fabiano Cid
Fabiano is the Managing Director of Ccaps, a company that has been providing localization services in the Latin American region since he founded it in 1999. Fabiano started his career as a translator at Lazoski, Beninatto and Associates in 1996 and later that year moved to London, where he stayed for two years working as a freelance translator. In 2002, Ccaps joined the Milengo alliance and Fabiano was elected a member of the board in the following year. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Milengo and has recently led the strategy to raise the investment necessary for the company's restructuring. With 15 years of experience in the localization industry and several articles written for leading industry publications, Fabiano is also the editor of the Ccaps Newsletter and content supervisor of the Ccaps Blog. | |  | | Julieta Coirini
Julieta is the Managing Director of Ushuaia Solutions, a translation and localization company serving international clients looking to enter into the Latin American market. She started her career as a translator in 1996 and was involved in different roles and positions until she decided to found her own business in April 2000. Julieta is very active in training resources in localization and in promoting the industry in the Latin American region. She was part of the Editorial Board for Multilingual Magazine and as a member of the TILP Board Julieta coordinated the content development for the first edition of the CLP Program. Julieta has a degree in Scientific Translations from the Olga Cosettini Institute, a degree as Marketing Analyst from The Institute of Marketing Professionals, a post graduate degree in Strategic Management from Universidad de Belgrano and is currently pursuing another post graduate degree in Coaching, also at the Universidad de Belgrano. | |  | | Marcello Coltro
Marcello is the Senior Vice President of Sales and Chief Marketing Officer of MGM Networks Latin America. In this position he supervises the channel distribution in new and existing markets, creates alliances with strategic partners and is responsible for the growth of advertising revenue streams. He started working in the company in 1998 and was previously the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the MGM and Casa Club TV channels. Before that, Marcello worked as a Marketing and Programming Director of the Country Music Television for Latin America, as a Marketing and Programming Director for TVA and Directv Brasil, Marketing Manager for Pizza Hut International and Operations Manager for Brahma. Marcello has a degree in Advertising from FAAP, São Paulo, and holds an MBA from the Owen/Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Já foi professor de pós-gradução em marketing estratégico na ESPM. | |  | | Wagner Covos
Wagner is the South America Sales and Marketing Vice President of CEVA Logistics, a provider of supply chain solutions with 56,000 employees and annual revenues exceeding EUR 7 billion. In this position, he is responsible for the region's sales and business development strategies, key account supervision, new product rollouts and budget structuring and tracking. He is the chosen coach for the Latin American sales team training and monitoring, which follow the PSS (Professional Sales Skills) and PSN (Professional Sales Negotiation) methods. With a degree in Civil Engineering from São Judas Tadeu University, Wagner started his career in logistics in an early age, when the industry was still incipient in Brazil. Since then, he has occupied prominent positions in several other sub-fields, such as Oil and Gas and Project Cargo. | |  | | Cecilia Iros
Cecilia is Operations Manager and Cofounder of IMTT, a translation and training company based in Cordoba that provides translation and localization solutions to clients around the world. She holds a degree in Translation from the School of Languages, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Her experience in the industry has always been related to IMTT, from freelance translation to project management to general management tasks. | |  | | Eva Klaudinyova
Eva is the Localization Manager in the Globalization Program at VMware, Inc., responsible for managing localization in Asia, Europe and Latin America. Apart from managing international localization and teams in these three major geographies, she is also responsible for linguistic quality, terminology and localization processes. She has been working in the localization industry since 2000. She holds a Master's degree in Foreign Language Teaching from Slovakia, as well as a Master's degree in Translation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, CA. She is a co-founder of the Northern California Women in Localization (NCWL) group. | |  | | Richard Korn
Richard is the Senior Manager of Localization and Packaging Development at St. Jude Medical in Sylmar, California. He oversees the two teams who offer software localization, testing and labeling services to the company’s Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. Richard also serves on the Advisory Board for the Life Sciences Roundtable at Localization World. He started his career in localization at Berlitz Translation Services in 1995 and managed the localization services for an interactive multimedia company before joining St. Jude Medical in 1999. Richard holds a BA in Psychology and French from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Masters degree in International Relations and Cross-Cultural Communication from the American University in Washington, D.C. | |  | | Maria Cecilia Maldonado
Maria Cecilia is Managing Director and Cofounder of IMTT, a translation and training company based in Cordoba that provides translation and localization solutions to clients around the world. She holds a degree in Translation from the School of Languages, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Her experience in the industry has always been related to IMTT, from freelance translation to project management to general management tasks. | |  | | Lilian Alves Mautone
Lilian has a degree in Languages from the Rio de Janeiro State University and completed an extension course at the University of California, Riverside. During her 12 years of working experience, she has served in several positions in the translation, CAT (Computer Aided Translation) and project management departments of highly regarded companies in the industry, such as Bowne Global Solutions and Lionbridge Technologies. She was chosen among her peers for several international working trips abroad, and was frequently invited to give addresses both in Brazil and abroad. As a founder and principal of LocHouse, in addition to being responsible for translations, Lilian manages quality control and customer service, ensuring high-quality work from beginning to end. | |  | | Gastón Ariel Mirkin
Gastón joined Paolantonio & Legón this year after having worked as an associate at Indij | Lichtmann | Martínez Raymonda Abogados, M. & M. Bomchil, Linklaters (NY), Credit Suisse First Boston (NY), among others. He is also a regular professor at UCEMA University, teaches specialization courses and writes for several publications. Gastón holds a Law Degree from the University of Buenos Aires, a Master of Finance from UCEMA University, as well as a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Buenos Aires Bar Association, Argentina Harvard Club, and of the Argentine Fulbright Alumni Association. | |  | | Djalma Petit
Djalma is the Market Director of SOFTEX, the Brazilian Association for the Promotion of Software Excellence. In this position, he conceived and implemented several projects to support the software and IT services industry in the country, such as the Brazil IT Project and PROIMPE. Djalma has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and has occupied positions in the marketing, business, software development, product development and industrial production areas. Djalma has a degree in Mechanics Engineering and a graduate degree in Information Technology Management from the Federal University of Brasília, specialization courses in Software Business Management and Business Internacionalization from the New Southeastern University (Florida, USA) and from the International Institute for Management Development - IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland). | |  | | Luigi Riboldi
Luigi is President and co-owner of Logoscript since 1997. He is also the Account Manager responsible for Microsoft and SAP. Prior to joining Logoscript, Luigi spent 8 years at SAP in Germany: in the Consulting unit managing international implementation projects in Sweden, Hungary, Venezuela, France, Luxembourg, Germany and the USA. He then joined the Sales department in 1994 as an Account Manager. Beginning in 1995, Luigi was responsible for all competitive intelligence activities in Europe. Luigi is originally from Milan, Italy where he received his undergraduate diploma as an Economist. He received an Executive MBA degree from the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. | |  | | Clio Schils
Clio joined Lionbridge in July 2007 as the Operations Manager for the Lionbridge main office in Wuppertal, Germany. In January 2009, Clio — within Lionbridge — shifted from operations to sales to become the Account Director of Life Sciences, working out of the Lionbridge Amsterdam office. In this capacity, Clio is in charge of developing, maintaining and further intensifying the current partnerships of Lionbridge with its life sciences customers. Prior to Lionbridge, Clio worked for Medtronic in The Netherlands for almost nine years, where she was responsible for the localization quality of medical, technical and marketing documentation. In parallel, Clio is involved in Localization World as the coordinator and moderator of the Life Sciences Round Table sessions, an initiative of The Localization Institute, Inc. Starting as a translator after her studies in Brussels, Clio gained 20 years of experience in localization project and linguistic management. Prior to her management positions at Medtronic and Lionbridge, she worked as a Greek translator for the Integrated Mediterranean Programs of the European Union in Athens and spent four years in California, working as a freelance translation project manager. Clio holds an MA in interpretation and is fluent in Greek, Dutch, German, English, functional in French. | |  | | Celso Schvartzer
Celso is the Commercial Development Director of Dream Factory Sports, the sports marketing agency of Artplan Communication Group. He is responsible for fostering new business opportunities in the sports spectrum, grow the existing proprietary events of the group and also finding new consulting prospect, both in Corporations and Sports Entities. Celso has more than 25 years of experience in the sports and communication area. Former Promotion and Events Manager of large multinational companies, he was responsible for events such as Camel Trophy and the F1 Camel Sponsorship, and the Coca-Cola Brazilian Soccer Team and Clube dos Treze Sponsorship. Before joining Dream Factory Sports, Celso was the Consumer Products Director of the Brazilian Olympic Committee, responsible for Licensing, Ticketing, Concessions and Sponsorship of the Pan American Games Rio 2007. Graduated in Business at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, he is currently in his Master Degree studie | |  | | Marco Simões
Marco is the Communications and Sustainability Vice-President for Coca-Cola Brazil, where he is responsible for the company’s corporate affairs, corporate marketing, social responsibility and sustainable development areas. He also accumulates the position of Executive Director at the Coca-Cola Brazil Foundation (Instituto Coca-Cola Brasil) and acts as Vice-President of the board of the Brazilian Advertisers Association. Before joining The Coca-Cola Company, Marco held positions in companies such as the Abril Group, SuperVia and Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting), acting as the head of commercial, marketing, operations or communications areas for more than 15 years. He graduated in journalism from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and completed work towards an MA in Mass Communications at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He also holds an MBA from the Daniels College of Business of the University of Denver, USA. | |  | | Alexandre Techima
Alexandre is the Infrastructure Director of the Rio Olympics Bidding Committee. In this position, he is responsible for the venues, technology platforms, environmental issues and transportation systems of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. He started working for the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) in 2004 and was the Main Operation Center Director (MOC) for the Pan-American Games Rio 2007, when he was in charge of organizing the operation center of the Games and of managing critical incidents in the 34 facilities and 50 functional areas used for the event. Besides MCSO and PMP certifications, Alexandre has a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Brasilia. | |  | | Robson Teles
Robson is the Global Localization Specialist for Nokia. In this position, he is responsible for managing localization and customization projects of several products and services, as well as meeting the requirements of product documentation for North America, Latin America and Brazil. Robson has been working with Nokia since 2008, where he helped build a new global business model of localization working directly from the headquarters in Finland. Previously, he worked as consultant for the Wunderman Group, when he helped Nokia build from scratch the localization strategy from the Latin American and Brazilian sales units. With 9 years of localization experience, he worked with L&H Mendez, Berlitz GlobalNet, Bowne Global Solutions and Lionbridge in several positions. With a degree in Computer Science, and a specialization course in Project Management with emphasis on IT, Robson is currently attending an MBA Executive course at the São Paulo Business School (BSP). | |
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