Patrick Kelly began his IT career in software development at Lotus. He then joined GeCAP as Localization Manager and became one of Vistatec’s founding members when GeCAP was acquired in 1997. Patrick is Chief Commercial Officer at Vistatec and is responsible for the commercial viability of our business solutions.

Thomas Murray joined Vistatec in 2000 and was appointed Chief Executive officer in 2005. An industry veteran, he held a number of key positions within ITP and SDL in both Europe and Asia prior to joining Vistatec. As CEO Thomas is responsible for the overall strategy of the Vistatec organization.

VistaTalks host Priscillia Charles is joined by Vistatec's Paula Manzur, Machine Translation Specialist, Dominika D'Agostino, Strategic Account Director, and Monika Bugiel, Language Services Manager ahead of International Women's Day, taking place on March 8, 2021. Together they discuss how they choose to challenge gender bias and gender inequality in today's society.

Allison is GALA's Executive Director. Over the past 11 years, she has served GALA in several roles and provided leadership for many of the association’s programs and activities. As Executive Director, she leads operations at GALA and is responsible for the growth of the association, its financial stability, and for the expansion and delivery of member value. Allison has an undergraduate degree in Biological Anthropology and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science. A lifelong athlete and a lifelong learner, she enjoys podcasts, reading, and all kinds of sports and athletic endeavors.​

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Kathrin Bussmann is an international marketing strategist, who helps digital-first companies build successful global brands. She loves to operate at the intersection of global business, content marketing, and localization.

Through her strategic consultancy, Verbaccino Inc., Kathrin advises global-minded B2B brands on how to attract, engage and retain more international customers. In her role as Head of Content Localization at Bubbl, a digital marketing agency, she works with growth-oriented brands who are ready to expand into international markets. And as the producer & host The Worldly Marketer Podcast, she interviews industry experts on what it takes to go global in today’s digital, social, multilingual marketplace.

Born in Quebec of German immigrant parents, Kathrin grew up fluent in German, French, and English. She holds degrees in Communications Studies and Linguistics from the University of Ottawa, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Humboldt Universität in Berlin. Now based in Toronto, she is a Co-Founder of Women in Localization Eastern Canada (WLEC). She is also a member of the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) and of The Global Chamber.

Kelly Bryant is the Director of Global Experiences at WorldStrides, where she partners with top universities and business schools to arrange short-term global immersion programs. The Global Experiences team works closely with faculty and deans to connect university students with local organizations and nonprofits to facilitate educational meetings, service-learning activities, and consulting projects. Prior to working at WorldStrides, Kelly worked in financial services in a business-to-consumer brand marketing role where she focused on consumer promotions, emerging business trends, and corporate branding. In that position, Kelly was a key member in researching and sourcing new vendors and partners, strategizing promotional concepts, and managing campaign logistics for multiple programs simultaneously. Kelly holds a BA in International Business from Florida International University in Miami, Florida. She lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Elizabeth Riley helps support the company-wide sales division as Director of Solutions Architecture, assisting Vistatec to work closely with clients and partners globally. Elizabeth has held a variety of qualified positions in Sales and Production over the past 15 years. She is extremely knowledgeable about the client-side of operations, with experience as a Linguistic QA Manager, Account Manager, and software Test Lead for clients in the medical device industry. She also has experience in software localization QA and TMS systems. Elizabeth is an alumnus of the University of California San Diego, where she majored in Political Science and holds a diploma in Multicultural Marketing from the Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV).

Dr Jon Rudd is an Olympic Gold medal swimming coach and Swim Ireland’s National Performance Director. In this episode, Jon discusses the importance of sport and the relationship to business, leadership, coaching and mental health. In recent years, Jon has directly coached three World Records (both long course and short course) and several European and Commonwealth Records. Jon’s coaching history sees him having directly coached one or more gold medallist at every international meet on the calendar, including senior, youth and junior medals at Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic Games levels. In recent years, Jon has been named as International Coach of the Year, World Junior Coach of the Year and European Coach of the Year, as well as having won the British Swimming Coach of the Year award on two occasions. Jon has served as a senior International Head Coach at Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth levels for Great Britain, Lithuania, England, Ireland and Turkey and as a Senior International Coach for the Netherlands and Kenya. Jon is the current Vice-President of the World Swimming Coaches Association.