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Lara-Ashleigh Pieterse is content manager at Memsource.

Alyssa Yorgan has worn many hats in the localization industry, starting off as a translator and moving into subsequent roles in project and account management. She started her journey down the path of localization at Yandex in Moscow and is frequently mistaken for a native Russian. While at Yandex, she was hand-selected (i.e. the only American woman in the office) to be “Alice,” the English-language synthesized voice for Yandex’s SpeechKit speech recognition technology. Her enthusiasm for this eclectic industry knows no bounds, and she enjoys helping clients draw connections between the latest advancements in L10N and their specific business goals. As a recovering academic, she loves a good dive into the deep end of the research pool (as long as you can actually do something with the findings when you come up for air).

Oleksandr Pysaryuk is a localization manager at Ceridian, an award-winning human capital management technology company serving organizations across the globe. Previously, he was the localization manager at Achievers, provider of the cloud-based Employee Success Platform. Oleksandr has 13 years of experience in software localization, on the buyer and service provider sides. Before joining Ceridian, he was a localization analyst at BlackBerry and has also held many localization management roles at LanguageScientific, Logrus, and bodybuilding and powerlifting sports federations in Ukraine. Oleksandr holds an MA in linguistics and translation studies, and taught translation at a university in Ukraine. He is organizing the Localization Unconference Toronto.

Paul Cerda is an experienced classroom teacher with the innate ability to demystify complex concepts through archetypes, simple graphics and storytelling. He has worked for the largest Pacific Northwest software and ecommerce companies to help design and scale whole enterprise localization efforts that accelerate global expansion across every division in the organization. As a globalization consultant, Paul quickly assesses a company and helps to create and implement globalization plans that scale products and services to global markets. He thinks big, executes adeptly and has strong strategic planning, data analytics, writing and presentation skills to drive change across organizations.

LocWorld41 Silicon Valley 2019 sessions:

• How to Tie Globalization Strategy into Enterprise-wide Corporate Governance - LocWorld41 – Silicon Valley 2019
• Introduction to Localization - LocWorld41 – Silicon Valley 2019
• Globalization: The Flywheel for International Revenue Growth - LocWorld41 – Silicon Valley 2019