Lars Trieloff is Director of Platform Marketing at Adobe, a role in which he leads the strategic direction of Adobe's technology platform, and how customers and partners of Adobe can use it.

A key part of this platform is Adobe Sensei, the technology that powers intelligent features such as face-aware liquify in Adobe's products and services. Adobe Sensei uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced algorithms to create the world's best experiences.

Coming from a background in software engineering, and product management, Lars looks at technology from the perspective of a future consumer: "What are the outcomes that this technology will enable me to achieve? How does it make my life better? What is the price I have to pay?"

A graduate of Baylor University, Ryan Dupre started his career with Hewlett Packard in the Legal IT department. After leading an effort to split the Legal IT applications during the Hewlett Packard separation, he transitioned to Marketing IT as an analyst in the content space. Ryan is now a member of a small strategic team responsible for Marketing, Global Real Estate, and Human Resources IT.

Vicki Key is Globalization Manager at Western Digital in Irvine, California. Mrs. Key is responsible for developing and executing Western Digital's global corporate localization strategy, vendor management, and processes utilizing a wide variety of localization tools and integrations. Vicki was part of the core team responsible for creating Western Digital's globalization strategy which was sponsored by marketing executives out of a desire to improve overall quality, increase translated assets, and streamline processes—all while reducing costs. Over the past three years, Vicki has led Western Digital through a complete overhaul of their globalization process and she continues to lead ongoing innovations in collaboration with TransPerfect. This has included incorporating several recent WDC acquisitions and migrating their existing localization processes to Western Digital's platform. Vicki Key is a native of California and has been with Western Digital for over 6 years.

With nearly fifteen years of experience in the translation and localization industry, Benjamin Esch currently leads a translation and review team for Legacy Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. In addition to managing relationships with external translation vendors, he works with stakeholders across regional, operational, and business teams to create and maintain a unified global brand voice across sixteen languages. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in German from the University of Texas at Austin. Outside of work, he enjoys sports (running, soccer, martial arts, you name it), cooking (although poorly), beer, chocolate, and spending time with his family.

Georg manages TDC GlobalLink for Dell EMC's localization supply chain as a platform for concurrent and collaborative translation. Prior to Dell EMC, Georg held various roles in the localization industry: DTP engineer, staff translator, localization project manager, and lead of a PMO.

Since joining Crocs in early 2013, Harvey Bierman has been responsible for all aspects of the company¹s global e-commerce technology. This includes all application development, enterprise integrations, user experience, and consumer-facing innovation. Prior to Crocs, Harvey was the VP of Digital Technology for Finish Line. From 2004 through 2011, he served in sales, marketing, customer success, and product management roles for Salesforce Commerce Cloud (formerly Demandware). Prior to his career in e-commerce, which started with Global Sports Interactive (aka GSI Commerce/eBay Enterprise) in 2000, Harvey had an extensive retail career in the outdoor and sporting goods industry. His education includes an MBA from Northeastern University and a BA from Montclair State University.

As a localization and digital marketing industry expert with more than eleven years’ experience, Juan Cardenas’s career has spanned multiple countries and tackled diverse industries including hospitality, IT/software development and e-commerce. Most recently as Director of Localization for Hilton Worldwide, he oversaw their global strategy and execution of all internationalization and localization aspects for their online channels. Today Juan focuses on helping companies develop their globalization strategy, align internal processes, and balance business imperatives with customer driven products.

Martin brings over 20 years of industry experience to running VML’s Marketing Technology practice. This global practice supports VML's teams and clients through creating integrated platforms from these solutions and aligning them with operational plans to achieve clients' business goals.

The team works with clients to optimize their current state and examine possibilities for change to ensure their investments are providing value and they are embracing new opportunities, while looking to emerging industry trends to define our own strategy. Through this thought leadership, best practices for design, implementation, and operation emerge.

As part of this practice, Martin leads marketing technology partnerships, drives technical analyst relations and helps create VML's packaged solutions. He regularly speaks at industry events including Drupalcon, Adobe Summit, Acquia Engage, Gilbane Conference, Digital Pulse Summit and Nedbank Digital Edge Live in South Africa. He has also been quoted in Advertising Age and Digiday.

He previously served as the Managing Technical Director in New York, where he worked with clients including Ford, Bristol-Myers Squibb and FedEx and ran VML’s technology partnerships.

Before joining VML, Martin worked at FatWire Software, a leading provider of enterprise content management software, in a variety of roles across the product management, marketing and sales organizations. His main area of focus was designing and building tools to assist companies roll out their first content management initiative more efficiently.

Michele Ivy is a Director with UPS Customer Engagement Technology Internet Systems, managing large UPS programs including ORION and most recently, the UPS Web Experience Management website redesign. She has been in the IT industry for nearly three decades: 20 years with UPS, and 10 years with a medical instrument company and large defense contractor. Michele is engaged in various neighbor-to-neighbor activities including Business Resource Group, Women In Technology, and United Way. She spent a month in McAllen, TX repairing homes, and is a high school sponsor for a youth group, participating in several mission/volunteer activities such as Katrina clean up. Michele was born and raised in Baltimore, MD but recently relocated to Alpharetta, GA. She has two children and four grandchildren.

Nancy Anderson is currently working as an independent globalization consultant, bringing companies a wealth of experience in developing advanced localization processes and a comprehensive globalization strategy. Prior to this, Nancy was the Senior Director of Globalization at Dell EMC, where she was responsible for managing the globalization shared service organization. In this role, she was responsible for delivering internationalization and localization services to the enterprise, along with robust quality management and globalization technology programs. Nancy also worked as a Business Unit Manager at Lionbridge Technologies, managing localization service delivery for key client accounts. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and 2 children and enjoys gardening, cooking, and all kinds of outdoor activities.

The TransPerfect/Translations.com family of companies was co-founded by Liz Elting and Phil Shawe in 1992. Today, TransPerfect/Translations.com is the world's largest privately held provider of language and business services, and Elting and Shawe continue to run the company's day-to-day operations. Under Shawe’s leadership, TransPerfect/Translations.com has received numerous awards and distinctions. The company is a three-time honoree of the Inc. 5000 Award, a six-time honoree of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and has earned multiple Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service. Crain's New York Business has ranked TransPerfect/Translations.com as one of the largest privately held companies, as well as one of the largest women-owned companies, seven years in a row. The company was also three times named one of the fastest-growing women-owned/led businesses in North America by Entrepreneur and the Women Presidents' Organization.

In 2008, Shawe was named to the prestigious “40 Under 40 list” by Crain’s New York Business. Shawe has spoken at New York University and Columbia University. He is also a member of the Association for a Better New York (ABNY). Prior to his career in the language services industry, Shawe was a Financial Analyst at Chemical Bank and a Global Custody Consultant at Merrill Lynch. Shawe holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from New York University's Stern School of Business, and he received his BS from the University of Florida where he triple majored in Finance, Marketing, and Risk Management.

Prior to joining Translations.com in 2003, Mark Hagerty was the Director of Software Development at eTranslate, directing the development of the industry leading GMS technology that was eventually acquired by Translations.com. Prior to that Hagerty worked for 8 years as a senior software engineer and manager at Adobe Systems, Inc. Mr. Hagerty was in charge of merging the internal customer databases and customer support systems when Adobe acquired Aldus in 1994. He was also one of the developers of the Adobe Type-On-Call product and was a key member of the teams that implemented Peoplesoft and SAP internally. Mr. Hagerty has 20 years of software development experience and is responsible for the technology vision and solutions that make Translations.com an industry leader. Mr. Hagerty holds a BS in Mathematics and Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Keith Brazil is Vice President of Technology for Translations.com with responsibility for the design, development, QA, and deployment of the GlobalLink suite of products. As well as managing a worldwide team of engineers, designers and support staff, Keith also manages a team of solution engineers and architects whose role is to ensure successful deployments on the client side, as well as acting as a feedback loop for client feature requests. Prior to his current role, Keith was Director of Localization at Translations.com, working closely with the production teams. Before joining Translations.com in 2000, Keith was Computer Aided Translation manager for Berlitz GlobalNET in Dublin, Ireland. A native of Dublin, Keith holds a BSc in Applied Computational Linguistics from Dublin City University.

Julien Didier is Vice President of Technology and handles product management duties for the GlobalLink OneLink technology platform. He manages a team of engineers, UI designers, developers, and support staff, who are hard at work building a new generation, best-of-breed translation platform.

Julien has over 15 years’ experience in the localization industry, with senior roles in operations and technology. A french native, Julien holds an MBA from the Toulouse Business School in France and works out of the TransPerfect headquarters in New York.

Martha Geller came to Translations.com in 2005 with over 20 years of experience in the translation and multicultural communications industries. In her previous position at GlobalSight, Geller led the globalization strategy consulting team and sales efforts for the GMS. Prior to that, as head of account services and sales for YAR, a leading multicultural communications agency, she oversaw launches for L.L. Bean in the Japanese market, Apple Computer's iMac, Nike's Olympic Games 23-language website, and Charles Schwab's corporate identity program for the Chinese markets. Geller's experience also includes working with American Express, Ford, 3M, HP, and Disney while at Berlitz Translation Services and Euramerica, a division of the Ogilvy Group. Geller received an MA in Translation and Conference Interpretation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, following completion of coursework in International Studies at the Universite de Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Shortly after completing his PhD in Electrical Engineering and MS in Management and Business Administration 10 years ago, Diego Bartolome managed to combine two of his passions (languages and technology) and started building machine translation solutions. Currently at TransPerfect/Translations.com, his team helps companies reach their business goals by applying machine translation and advanced natural language processing technologies into their processes. Diego started running before the birth of his first daughter 8 years ago, so let him know if you’re interested in an early morning run in Chicago!

Based in Washington, DC, Lisa began her TransPerfect career in 2000 managing the day-to-day accounts for clients in various industries. Over time, she began to specialize in certain industries, including pharmaceutical, healthcare, and legal. Lisa is the executive sponsor for several of our largest clients in the clinical trial space and has served as a consultant and industry expert to countless others. Having experience working with almost all service lines TransPerfect offers, Lisa also heads up our internal training team, as well as our global client experience group, which provides a third-party audit of all client engagements worldwide to ensure they are each receiving the level of service expected. Lisa holds BA degrees in both Spanish and International Politics from Penn State University.

Roy Dvorkin is TransPerfect's VP of Media & Entertainment. He is responsible for leading the global Media & Entertainment vertical at Translations.com and providing support to establish and enhance relationships with current and prospective clients. Roy's goal is to disrupt the media and entertainment space by providing innovative and scalable models for localization. Roy brings over 12 years of subtitling and dubbing experience working with many of the major global entertainment companies. He has lived in New York and London and is now based in our Los Angeles office.

Joe Campbell began his career as a co-owner in the NY tech scene where he managed a 20-person web application development team. During his 5+ year career at TransPerfect, Joe has focused on creating custom web applications with the goal of increasing efficiency and creating great user experiences. Joe oversees the development, strategy, and execution of key technology innovations, and leads the team supporting GlobalLink TransPort, among other applications. Joe is a graduate from the College of Holy Cross and lives in NYC.

Kathryn Hendricksen has been with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for nearly 17 years, in a variety of Marketing and Communication roles. Currently she leads the Localization Practice in Global Marketing. Her team operates the centralized translation management system GlobalLink, provided by Translations.com, which was successfully installed for HPE in 2016. Additionally she established and continues to manage a centralized model for translating Marketing content—leading a team of project managers who handle thousands of projects each year—successfully driving down costs, extending the new HPE brand deeper into local markets, and helping to generate new revenue opportunities for HPE.

Khwaja Khan is the Information Systems Architect at Cell Signaling Technology, responsible for global and regional sites. He is an experienced, hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of B2B and B2C e-commerce web applications with key focus in areas like catalogs, profiles, search/browse, checkout, payments, CMS, fulfillment, integrations, analytics, punch-out, caching, SEO, application security, and performance.

Khwaja has over ten years of experience in the IT industry and has served in different roles from junior and senior developer roles to Technical Lead, and currently, Architect. Khwaja holds an MS in Software Engineering from Loyola University Chicago.

Michele Ivy is a Director with UPS Customer Engagement Technology Internet Systems, managing large UPS programs including ORION and most recently, the UPS Web Experience Management website redesign. She has been in the IT industry for nearly three decades: 20 years with UPS, and 10 years with a medical instrument company and large defense contractor. Michele is engaged in various neighbor-to-neighbor activities including Business Resource Group, Women In Technology, and United Way. She spent a month in McAllen, TX repairing homes, and is a high school sponsor for a youth group, participating in several mission/volunteer activities such as Katrina clean up. Michele was born and raised in Baltimore, MD but recently relocated to Alpharetta, GA. She has two children and four grandchildren.

A ten-year plus veteran of the localization/translation industry, Matt has overseen all facets of technology sales and marketing for TransPerfect and Translations.com since 2007. Matt’s Content Solutions Team works closely with the entire global sales force of the TransPerfect family of companies to ensure that the proper combination of GlobalLink® applications is being presented to both current and prospective clients. Matt also takes an active role in managing enterprise engagements that involve technology, is involved in both development and implementation of technology-related sales and marketing strategies, and coordinates partner and alliance activities related to GlobalLink. Matt began his career with TransPerfect in 1996, handling sales for enterprise document translation for the Southeast Region, and moved into website localization and technology sales in 1999 with Translations.com. Currently based in Atlanta, GA, Matt is a graduate of the University of Florida and holds a BA in English.