Thrive in Global Markets

Ann-Maree Morrison is Co-Chair of the UK W20 Delegation on gender equality. She is a Chartered Accountant with Management Consulting, Audit, Insolvency, Investigations, and Project Management experience with Price Waterhouse Coopers and Grant Thornton and start-up industry experience with Kodak and Disney Stores. She has international business experience. Ann-Maree is the founder of https://www. L...

When you're in international business, it's important to know the cultural differences between countries and cultures. Some cultures are informal and respond well to a chatty, friendly approach, others are more formal and expect business conversations to be based on respect and a professional persona. You mostly feel these differences in a meeting or a phone call. To avoid any cultural misundersta...

Farzad Rashidi is the lead innovator at Respona, the all-in-one digital PR and link-building software that combines personalization with productivity. He also runs the marketing efforts at Visme, where he helped the company gain over 12 million active users and pass 2M monthly organic traffic. KEY TAKEAWAYS Having a good SEO strategy will help you rank higher on search engines like Google and Bing...

Sophie Milliken is the founder of Moja Group Limited, dedicated to boosting business owners’ profiles, helping them become more visible and heard within their industry.  Sophie has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development since 2013 and was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in 2019. Her first book, From Learner To Earner, was published in August 2019, b...

Yaro Starak is the co-founder of InboxDone.com, an email management company with a team of 25+. Yaro has made 30+ angel investments in tech startups including Steezy, LeadIQ, Fluent Forever, FitBod, and Nutrisense, has property investments in Canada and Ukraine, and in partnership built a 3.6MW solar farm. During the mid-2000s Yaro sold his first company, BetterEdit.com, then built an online educa...

Lesley Batchelor OBE is the CEO of Exportbootcamps.com an ICC and ILM accredited training company with a real difference. Using years of experience teaching and training business owners and managers to trade competently internationally the Boot Camp approach guarantees engagement and results. She also acts as a board advisor to Smart & Savvy Women Ltd and Director of Open Borders Direct. With inva...

Malcolm Gallagher is the Director of BizVision Ltd., a Chartered Marketer, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and a Freeman of the City of London. His brands include Sell Global and Win Contracts & Tenders but he is especially proud of the growth of his Conscious & Better Business brand, BVTV Channel, and new membership Club. Malcolm of BizVision used to be a “have suitcase ready will...

Ramsey Pryor is the founding partner at Port of Entry Partners, a global expansion consultancy. He's a founding member of the International Mastermind operator network and he hosts the International Expansion podcast . Prior to starting Port of Entry, Ramsey led International Expansion and Sales at Branch Metrics for 5 years, building the company's international presence and revenue in London, Ber...

Joel Sahleen was the Director of International Engineering and Principal International Engineer at Domo, Inc. He specializes in the internationalization and localization of distributed, cloud-based, software as a service application, and in the development of cost-effective, data-driven product internationalization and localization programs. Now he continues his professional life as Internationali...

Agustín Da Fieno Delucchi is the Director, Data and Applied Science - DTP Intl Eng, Docs & Learn at Microsoft. He has been in the computer industry since 1992, initially developing enterprise solutions and for most of his career on internationalization and localization. Originally from Lima, Peru, he has worked in different areas of software development. Initially in Dublin, for about a decade, an...

Alessandra Binazzi is the founder of Alessandra Binazzi Consulting. She is a multi-lingual professional with a surprisingly varied experience and one common thread: International markets and customers. Proficient in all major European languages, Alessandra has dedicated her professional life to marketing, selling, supporting, and educating customers on all continents. She was raised in Italy and u...

Carrie Fischer is the Globalization Services Manager at Subway, headquartered in Milford, CT. She is responsible for all globalization-related strategies for the company. She has over 28 years of localization experience and has held previous localization positions at Bodybuilding.com as the Localization Program Manager; Hyperion/Oracle as the Director of the Worldwide Product and Translation Group...

Erica Haims is the founder of Haims Consulting where she specializes in Localization Marketing and the marketing of the localization industry.  She has served on the board of Women in Localization and has held long-term roles at Apple and Atlantic Records. The current pandemic has had a huge impact on many brands' localization and globalization, as it has fast-tracked the demands on the digital ex...

Dolores Hirschmann is an internationally recognized strategist, coach, speaker, and founder of Masters in Clarity, a strategy and coaching company that helps clients clarify their message and implement virtual business growth systems. Dolores has been a remote employee and virtual business owner for over 20 years. As a former TEDx organizer, Dolores understands how to help experts, authors, consul...

Brian Beck is a Managing Partner at Enceiba, the only Amazon agency focused on serving B2B companies and the author of the first comprehensive book on B2B Ecommerce, entitled “Billion Dollar B2B Ecommerce”. He has over two decades of experience in E-commerce and digital transformation, including 17 years as a VP and C-level executive. Brian is a sought-after expert and trusted advisor, guiding exe...

Michael Levot is the Localisation Programme Lead at Canva. He’s spent the last few years building out localisation at design software startup Canva. He’s been particularly involved in developing internationalisation infrastructure for Canva’s continuous localisation pipeline and driving global growth with scalable and inclusive localised marketing. Before Canva, he taught linguistics at the Univer...

Will Butler-Adams joined Brompton in 2002, became director in 2006, and took over as MD in 2008 and at this time has grown the company from a £2mil turnover with 27 staff to a £90 mil turnover with over 800 staff. They create urban freedom for happier lives.  Brompton exports over 75% of its bikes to 47 countries through 1600 independent bike stores. They are the distributor in nineteen of those c...

Michelle Seiler Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated. She holds the M&AMI (Mergers & Acquisitions Master Intermediary) title, as well as Certified Mergers and Acquisitions Professional (CM&AP) and Certified Senior Business Analyst (CSBA). Michelle also owns many other businesses in several different industries. As a 20-year veteran in the M&A industry, she is regarded as the...

Maiju Nurminen is the Localisation Manager & Strategist of what3words, a company that’s given every 3-metre square in the world a unique code of 3 random words — a what3words address. Maiju has built the localisation programme at what3words from scratch, and as the company has scaled up and expanded to new markets, she’s continued to develop localisation at what3words into a highly impactful and c...

We have some exciting announcements to make! The podcast has been around for the past 2 years and we have had some great guests and amazing moments under this brand. We have accumulated more and more listeners each and every day and in the end. The podcast’s aim has always been to inspire other business owners, managing directors and entrepreneurs to take the next step in their global journeys by...

Andy Andersen is an international expansion evangelist - helping companies to scale their business models with a global-first mindset. He works as an advisor/consultant, has spent more than 5 years leading product localization at Tinder, and has a background in international relations from the Louisiana State University. He is passionate about the integration of language with modern technologies,...

Steve Wiseman, Product Evangelist at Paligo, has over 25 years of experience in the documentation field having run his own documentation company, and providing consultancy and writing services to both small and enterprise customers. His unique outlook covers CX, sales, and support, and where that all fits in the knowledge management world. KEY TAKEAWAYS Technical documentation is crucial for the p...

Bernard Hor is an entrepreneur, storyteller, strategist, triathlete, and co-founder of Hatio Group, a digital supply chain platform servicing Asian SMEs. Hatio helps SMEs serve the world’s fastest-growing consumer market – Asia – predicted to reach $30 trillion in value by 2030, with better supply chain and logistics solutions. Based in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.  As the group CEO, Bernard plays an in...

Ray Walsh is a communications consultant based in Prague. He has supported clients in a variety of industries on training and communications content, working in the US and from the Europe region for large global companies including UPS and DXC Technology. A native of the US, he has lived in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Belgium. His book Localizing Employee Communications - also available as an...

Jan Cavelle is an entrepreneur from the UK who has a few decades of running micro and small businesses behind her. She is very familiar with all the challenges that go with that, having started one from the kitchen table when her children were small and she was a single mother, to go on to build that into a multi-million turnover business. Jan has put her entrepreneurial experiences together with...