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Florian Faes

Florian Faes

Managing Director at Slator

Qualifications

Managing Director of Slator, a leading language-industry intelligence firm

Host of the weekly SlatorPod podcast

Former CEO Asia-Pacific at CLS Communication

Education

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Expertise

Language industry

Language AI

Market intelligence

Localization

Translation

Business strategy

Florian Faes is the Managing Director of Slator, the leading source of market intelligence on language solutions and language AI, and host of the weekly SlatorPod podcast. Based in Zurich, he previously spent more than eight years at CLS Communication, where he led the company's Asia-Pacific operations as CEO. He is a frequent speaker and commentator on the localization industry and the business impact of translation AI.

Experience

Managing Director at Slator

Mar 2015 — Present · 11 yrs 5 mos

Leads the market intelligence firm on language solutions and language AI, and hosts the weekly SlatorPod podcast.

Advisory Board at Jurata

Feb 2022 — Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

CEO Asia-Pacific at CLS Communication

Sep 2011 to Feb 2015 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Held P&L and management responsibility for CLS Communication's Asia operations and sat on the CLS Group Management Board.

General Manager, Hong Kong at CLS Communication

Mar 2009 to Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Held P&L and management responsibility for the Hong Kong office, building the sales team and growing revenue.

Language Operations Manager at CLS Communication

Mar 2008 to Mar 2009 · 1 yr

First regional operations manager for CLS in Asia, growing a team of 20+ in-house linguists and establishing productivity metrics.

Financial Translator at CLS Communication

Oct 2006 to Mar 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos

Translated equity, bond, and financial research and documents from English into German.

Events & webinars (1)

Localization M&A, Quo Vadis?

September 9, 2020

Online

Qualifications

Managing Director of Slator, a leading language-industry intelligence firm

Host of the weekly SlatorPod podcast

Former CEO Asia-Pacific at CLS Communication

Education

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Expertise

Language industry

Language AI

Market intelligence

Localization

Translation

Business strategy

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