Profiles

Riccardo Schiaffino

Riccardo is the President of Aliquantum, Inc., a company he established with a few colleagues to provide services to major translation companies. Before establishing Aliquantum, Riccardo worked as translator, translation manager and special software translation project lead for a major software company. As a translation manager, Riccardo worked on the improvement of translation quality and on translation quality metrics and tools. He holds an MA degree in Translation from the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Translators and Interpreters at the University of Trieste, Italy, and has been working in translations for over 20 years, first in Italy and then in the U.S.

Franco Zearo

Franco is the Worldwide Director of Language Services with Lionbridge Technologies. He holds a degree in translation from the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Translators and Interpreters at the University of Trieste, Italy, and earned an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix. Before joining Lionbridge in 1996, he worked as a freelance technical and medical translator in Italian, English, and Russian. At Lionbridge, he is responsible for quality assurance and process improvement for language services for all corporate offices worldwide, and he interacts daily with translation professionals in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.