Sudheen M

President, CITLoB
Founder of Crystal Hues Limited

Sudheen M is the President at CITLoB and Founder of Crystal Hues Limited, one of the pioneers integrating the marketing communication services and localization services, delivering unparalleled solutions to clients for more than three decades now. He is a die-hard start-up enthusiast, philanthropic at heart and his expertise includes marketing communications, localization, translation, strategic planning, branding, positioning and media.

Sandeep Nulkar

CEO, BITS Private Limited

Sandeep Nulkar is one of the Founding Members of CITLoB and also its immediate Past President. Besides being the Founder of BITS Private Limited, he is also a Member of the Executive Committee of the National Language Translation Mission, the Chairman of FICCI's Indic Internet & Language Technology Subcommittee, a Member of Regional Language Committee, India Internet Governance Forum, the Vice President of the Alliance Française de Pune and a Member of ICANN's Universal Acceptance Local India Chapter Working Group.

Andrew Smart

Co-Founder and Commercial Director, SLATOR

Andrew is the Commercial Director at Slator responsible for product development and pricing, online ad and research sales, and event sponsorships. Prior to co-founding Slator, Andrew has worked in the media, internet and finance industries including managing media businesses for Thomson Reuters, Fairfax Media and The Economist Group. He has an MBA in Finance and Investments from The George Washington University in Washington DC and has been based in Asia for over 25 years.

Biraj Rath

CEO, BRAAHMAM

Biraj Rath is one of the founding members of Braahmam International Limited with offices in US, Ireland and India. Based in Dublin, he specializes in helping customers with design and delivery of products and services for the Middle-East, Indian and South East Asian markets. Biraj has been instrumental in growing Braahmam with a global presence. With over 20 years of dedication to the language industry, he is an authority on localization and digital learning technologies. Biraj has delivered papers at several Translation industry forums, such as industry Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), Localization World, LISA, British Council Forums, Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). He has been a judge on the prestigious Brandon-Hall panel to review technically innovative e-learning products. He has also served as a program committee member for several industry events. Biraj has served as an ambassador for GALA from 2015-17. Currently, he serves as the CEO of Braahmam and is also one of the founding members of the Indian Language Association (CITLOB).

Cédric Sigoire

Owner, DEMAN Translations

Cédric Sigoire is the owner of the DEMAN Translations with headquarter in Düsseldorf, Germany. He is a French citizen residing in Germany and is trilingual with proficiency in French, German and English. After a successful career in sales and management positions, he decided to run his own company in 2015 and bought the German LSP DEMAN Übersetzungen specialized in high-quality B2B translations with EUR 1.5M in annual revenues. The "Buy and Build" strategy that he put in place allowed him to quickly grow the revenues. After acquiring 10 LSPs, the DEMAN group now has its presence in Germany, France, Switzerland and South Korea with annual turnover of over EUR 6M for the fiscal year 2021. His company is on track for the next milestone and is expected to hit EURO 10M by the end of 2022.

Sunil Kulkarni

President, Fidel Technologies

Sunil Kulkarni is the VP West Zone @CITLoB and the CEO of Fidel Softech Pvt Ltd (www.fidelsoftech.com) & LinguaSol Pvt. Ltd (www.linguasol.net) . Sunil has been active in the field of Languages & Technologies for past 20+ years and works closely between Japan & India. He is very passionate about upskilling, creating job opportunities, entrepreneurship and LangTech. Meet Sunil @Samwad 2021.

Vidushi Kapoor

Co-Founder at PROCESS 9, Events Manager at Women in Localisation

Vidushi is a second generation problem solver and the co-founder of Process Nine Technologies. Having spent around 10 years in Indian Language and Localization industry, her current mission is to bring language equality on the internet through scalable and efficient technology solutions.

Jan Hinrichs

Founder and CEO, Beluga and LocLunch community

Jan Hinrichs is the founder and CEO of Beluga, a language service company that powers scale-ups and global organizations with strong translation and localization teams to run smoothly in over 40 languages. He is a professional multitasker - especially when participating in online conferences while walking the dogs. Jan is the founder of the LocLunch community, which enables conversations and knowledge sharing in and around the translation, localization, and globalization industry. He is also studying about carbon removal and carbon credits.

Afaf Steiert

President, AFAF TRANSLATIONS

Afaf Steiert is President and founder of Afaf Translations, works as a conference Arabic interpreter, and oversees all medical /pharmaceutical translation services at Afaf Translations. She speaks 5 languages and has good knowledge of all Arabic dialects. She obtained her MSc in plant molecular biology from University of Basel, Switzerland.

Matthias Steiert

Biotechnology Consultant and Co-Founder, Afaf Translations"

pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. He holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Vibhaw Kumar

CEO Berns Brett India Insurance Broking

Vibhaw started his career as a Credit Appraiser for Commercial Vehicle financing for a NBFC. Subsequently he joined the insurance sector and has 23 years of experience in it. He has worked as an insurance consultant, insurance broker, a reinsurance broker as well as an underwriter. Vibhaw is currently working for Berns Brett India as the CEO. He has experience placing some of the large liability insurance programs, settling of large insurance claims and drafting some bespoke liability insurance wordings. Vibhaw has extensive as well as varied experience in training. While working for Tata AIG he was in-house trainer for Financial Lines and Casualty; a visiting faculty member for National Insurance Academy, Insurance Institute of India; provided training for staff of HDFC ERGO, Bajaj Allianz, Future Generali, Reliance General, Cholamandalam MS General, National Insurance Co., United India, New India Assurance, Oriental Insurance. Vibhaw has also provided training to officers of some of the insurance companies in Sri Lanka.

Dr. Donald A. DePalma

Founder and Chief Research Officer, CSA Research

Don DePalma has been involved in shaping the globalization strategies of some of the world's largest firms and the market strategies of the industry's most influential language service and technology providers. As the founder of CSA Research, Don has been instrumental in establishing the company as the preeminent market research firm in localization and globalization. He initiated the firm's coverage of localization maturity, enterprise language processing, business-driven globalization, machine translation, return on investment for localization, and multicultural domestic marketing. Don holds a doctorate in linguistics from Brown University.

Vivekanand Pani

Co-founder & CTO, Reverie Language Technologies

Vivek is the Co-Founder and CTO of Reverie Language Technologies, a mission first company driving "Language Equality on the Internet." Reverie is driving langauges' led digital customer experience by integrating voice , video and text.

With more than 20 years of experience in Indian Language Computing, Vivek is one of the very few subject matter experts who are passionate and dedicated to making usage of Indian languages easy on digital platforms. Vivek began his Indian language journey at the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Pune, in the year 1997. His journey spans across developing advanced multilingual tools for early computing devices and word processing software for computers to leading today's state of the art AI-driven Indian language technologies like Automated Speech Recognition, Machine Translation, Text-to-Speech, Natural language understanding, Multilingual Search, etc.

Steve Chu

Founder and Executive Director, GoAP

Steve Chu in the business of helping companies grow and get to the next level. He has more than 20 years of diversified management experience in general management, sales, marketing, and operations. After spending more than a decade in the financial communications industry managing Asia operations, US operations, technology, product development, and marketing, Steve founded Treehouse Strategy with the purpose of using big data and business analytics to drive business growth. Through Treehouse Strategy, Steve and his associates as well as partners have helped their clients develop their sales and marketing strategies, develop new customers, expand into new markets, streamline operations, as well as implement business and technology solutions. Steve is also the founder and executive director of the Glocalization Organization of Asia Pacific (GoAP). [pronounced GO-A-P] GoAP is a global industry and trade association that focuses on the globalization efforts of companies and localization industries in Asia, Oceania, and countries in the entire Asia-Pacific region. We are also seeking to promote and foster the development of globalization and localization technologies in Asia, Oceania, and the Asia-Pacific region. Steve received his B.A. from Columbia University and his M.A. in communication from Iowa State University.

Ravindra Kumar

Chief Consultant, Arya Consultancy Services

Madhuri Hegde

Co-Founder and COO, Summa Linguae Technologies

Madhuri Hegde, Co-Founder & COO, Summa Linguae Technologies, looks after the global expansion of her company. A polyglot herself, she takes keen interest in fostering the development of language professionals worldwide. Besides being an icon for women entrepreneurship, she is a confluence of influence, inspiration and impact and is involved in mentoring early-stage start-ups, in their planning and growth phases. She is also an eminent speaker at various events providing insights on business growth.

Ishitaa Saxena

Interpreter and Translator

Ishitaa Saxena has been working as an independent interpreter and translator for the past eight years. As an interpreter, she has worked with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the UNHCR Office in New Delhi, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy among several other organizations. She holds a Master's Degree in Translation and Interpretation in French and Francophone Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her working languages include English, Hindi, and French. She also holds a Diploma in the Romanian language from the University of Delhi. She recently submitted her Ph.D. thesis on French post-impressionist painting. Her current work interests include in-person and remote simultaneous interpretation.

Sarika Gulyani

Director & Head | ICT, Mobile Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Digital Transformation & FICCI-ILIA Divisions

Ms Sarika Gulyani is the Director at FICCI and leads the verticals, like ICT, Mobile Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation and FICCI-Indian Language Technology Alliance. Sarika has more than 16 years of experience in regulatory affairs, public affairs, and policy advocacy of the telecom, information communications technology and digital economy sectors. Her specific areas of focus and expertise include Indic Internet, Language Technologies, Internet Governance, M2M, AI, IOT, Mobile Technologies, Broadband infrastructure, and Enterprise IT. She has launched various international intellectual conferences and seminars like Bhashantara, Big Data Conclave, Emerging Technologies Conclave, India Internet Governance Conference, Cybercomm, India Telecom series, Digital Bharat, i-Bharat and has been instrumental in increasing the penetration of ICT in India. She has been working closely with government departments, industry associations, international agencies and global ICT associations on policy issues and overall growth of the ICT, Digital Economy and Indic Internet. Sarika also represents FICCI at various national and international forums. An Electronics & Communications engineer, Ms Sarika Gulyani also holds a Master's Degree in International Business from the University of Delhi.

Britta Aagaard

Chief Business Officer at Semantix

Britta is the Chief Business Officer at Semantix where she is responsible for the total business within localization and advanced language solutions. She is an enthusiastic leader of a passionate team of language professionals, technology experts, and innovative minds. Semantix is the leading player in the Nordics and is constantly expanding its own comfort zone, trying harder and achieving more. Britta thrives on working with great people who firmly believe in communication and technology as an important contribution to our modern world.

Geoffrey Bowden

General Secretary EUATC

Geoffrey Bowden has spent more than 40 years in the language industry. He helped develop the UK's Association of Translation Companies into one of the world's most successful language industry associations and was one of the founders of EUATC, where his attentions are now wholly focussed. Along the way he has helped establish translation and localization associations across the world. He was a recipient of the language industry's Eichner Distinguished Service Award and has been named as one of Nimdzi's top 50 influencers in the sector.

Raisa McNab

CEO ATC

Translator, quality manager, ISO standards lead, production manager, Raisa McNab has had many different roles in the translation industry over the past 20 years. Today, she puts that experience into practice by steering the UK's Association of Translation Companies (ATC), a trade association representing over 200 language service companies providing multilingual translation and interpreting services to the UK's businesses and the public sector.

Raisa McNab spans the boundaries between the language services industry, academia and the public sector, promoting collaboration and best practice. She is the ATC's Lead on Standards, and oversees the operations and development of ATC Certification, a language services expert ISO Certification Body. Raisa McNab holds an MA in Translation & Interpreting from her native Finland.

Heike Leinhäuser

EUATC and MD, Leinhäuser Language Services.

Heike Leinhäuser is President of the European Union of Associations of Translation Companies (EUATC), one of CITLoB's strategic partners. She was formerly President of the EUATC's German member association, Qualitats Sprachendienste Deutschlands (QSD).

With her brother, Udo, she established Leinhäuser Language Services in 1997, which was strengthened in 2010 when it joined forces with the former management of Siemens Language Services. The company, with a team of more than 30 account managers, specialises in communication, finance and marketing.

Alok Juneja

Business Head at PepperContent

Tanushree Choudhury

VP - Enterprise Business - Braahmam | Founding member & COO at vSpeeq | Founding Member at CITLoB

Harshit Vyas

Chief Business officer Pepper Content

The CBO of Pepper Content, Harshit Vyas is a visionary who has bagged multiple successes in life.

One of the youngest CXOs at OYO Harshit helped build the company from scratch. In a span of 7 years at OYO, he essayed multiple dignitaries, including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Business Officer (CBO). He successfully spearheaded 5000+ people across 250+ cities to drive growth and increase margins manifold

He hit yet another milestone while working as CXO at Pristyn Care He built a D2C brand "BeatXP" from scratch and scaled it to more than $10 million ARR in 8 months.

An alumnus of the IIT (BHU), Harisht joined Pepper Content as CBO and has become one of the brightest minds helping expanding Pepper Content globally.

Prof. Girish Nath Jha

Chairman, Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology, MoE, GOI (on deputation from JNU)

Prof. Girish Nath Jha is currently the Chairman of the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT) of Ministry of Education, Govt of India. He is a professor of Computational Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) at the School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies. He is also a Concurrent Faculty at the School of Engineering, Center of Linguistics and at the Special Center of e-learning in JNU. Prof Jha has served as the Chairperson of the Special Center of Sanskrit Studies, JNU and was the founding Dean of the School of Sanskrit & Indic Studies at JNU. He has also held the position of the Director of International Collaboration and as Coordinator of Ayurveda Biology program at JNU. His research interests include Indian languages, corpora and standards, Sanskrit and Hindi linguistics, lexicography, Science & Technology in Sanskrit, Machine Translation, e-learning, web-based technologies, RDBMS techniques, software design and localization. Details on his work can be obtained from http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in. Prof Jha has done collaborative research with the Center for Indic Studies, U. Mass, Dartmouth, USA as "Mukesh and Priti Chatter Distinguished Professor of History of Science" during 2009-12. He was awarded DAAD fellowship in 2014 and 2016 to teach Digital Humanities and Indology at University of Würzburg, Germany and has been a visiting Professor at the University of Florence in the summer of 2016. He has also been awarded the prestigious Datta Peetha Aasthan Vidwan Award for Sanskrit. His work on revival of Sharada script earned him KECSS felicitation award.

Prof. Jha did his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Linguistics (Computational Linguistics) from JNU and then got another masters degree in Linguistics (Natural Language Interface) from University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA in 1999. He worked as software engineer and software development specialist in the USA before joining JNU in 2002. Prof Jha has books published by Springer, Cambridge Scholar Publishing among others and has over 138 research papers/presentations/publications and more than 300 talks. He has supervised 39 Ph.D. and 41 M.Phil. research students so far. Prof Jha has had several consultancies including those from Google, Nuance, Swiftkey, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation, Linguistic Data Consortium (U. Penn), U.Mass Dartmouth, EZDI among others. Prof Jha has completed several sponsored projects for Indian language technology development and has led a consortium of 17 universities/institutes for developing corpora and standards for Indian languages.

Senthil Nathan

Evangelizing Ailaysa

He is the CEO of Langscape Language Solutions Pvt Ltd, a language services company based in Chennai, that has been in business for two decades. He recently launched Ailaysa, an artificial intelligence translation platform. He was a founding member of the International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) and an ex-VP of Citlob, an industry body in India for language companies. In Tamil Nadu, he is a well-known writer and media personality.

Madhu Sundaramurthy

Global HR Director and MD - APAC | Mayflower Language Services Pvt. Ltd | Summa Linguae Technologies

Madhu Sundaramurthy, Global HR Director and MS-APAC, Summa Linguae Technologies. She is committed to the goal of nurturing talent for the language industry and elevating the quality of language solutions. She is the founder member of Women In Localization, India and the first Program Director representing APAC.

Rohit Agarwal

Disrupting Content Tech | Peppertype.ai | Pepper Content