Management

Alessandro Giannetti
CEO

Alessandro brings over 15 years of experience in the translation and localization industry. His understanding of the company, its services and the localization market will be instrumental in driving milengo's growth and supporting the company’s worldwide innovation, processes and technology expansion.

Before joining the milengo management team, Alessandro was the Managing Director of one of the leading and fastest growing translation and localization companies in Italy. Alessandro is also a founding member of Gruppo L10N, a group of localization professionals whose aim is to promote localization education and training in Italy.

Tamara Pace Ross
Chief Financial Officer

milengo recently appointed Tamara as CFO to take advantage of her extensive experience in international corporate finance. Prior to joining milengo, Tamara worked as an Executive Consultant for Ernst & Young in Malta, where she was responsible, among other things, for corporate restructurings and forensic accounting, working with international teams on privatizations and evaluations of local and foreign companies. She also drafted various studies for the Malta Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Tamara is a German native with a degree in Business Administration from Berufsakademie Emsland in Lingen, Germany, with dual majors in Economics and Finance. Her knowledge and experience in international finance will undoubtedly help milengo support its worldwide clients..

Adam Blau
Vice President, Marketing

Adam is responsible for managing milengo's global operations as well as its sales and marketing activities in North America and Europe. Having joined the alliance during its conceptual phase, he currently leads members in the development of customized localization solutions in their respective regions and helps strengthen relationships with milengo's international clients.

Prior to joining milengo, Adam worked at Collaborate Communications, where he coordinated and managed client-agency relations on a global scale. Adam's knowledge of the American and European business markets gives him a competitive edge when it comes to helping milengo build relationships with international clients and acquire new customers.

Fabiano Cid
Chairman of the Board

Fabiano Cid started his career as a freelance translator in 1996 when he was still living in London. Upon his return to his hometown of Rio de Janeiro, he decided to open his own company. It soon became one of the most recognized brands for Brazilian Portuguese localization services in the industry. His linguistic background and personal approach pursuaded clients both in Brazil and abroad. Fabiano entered alliance in the second stage of its formation and was elected to the Board in 2004.

His expertise, acquired over the years as the Managing Director of his successful Brazilian operation, has helped shape the milengo brand and marketing strategy since 2004. Fabiano also developed and structured milengo’s Latin American GPM center, which was designed to meet the demand for qualified global project management from milengo clients in the United States and Canada.

Roman Kotzsch
Board Member

As a member of the Board, Roman brings over 14 years of experience in the fields of IT, translation and localization. He established one of Europe's first localization companies in Germany, which soon grew to be one of the largest in the country by offering quality linguistic services to the IT world that leveraged three crucial components: linguistic competence, technical understanding and a streamlined production process.

Roman is the founder of milengo, and brings to it a wealth of experience and insight from the localization industry that has helped shape milengo's strategic development.

Miklos Ban
Board Member

Miklos has never shied away from the chance to bring innovation to the translation industry – both in terms of business model expertise and professional insight. He has founded 3 companies since 1999 and recently acquired another, and offers leadership experience as a shareholder and Managing Director.

With his hands-on experience in organizational development, business integration and multilingual localization into 40+ languages, Miklos contributes valuable knowledge of both the local and regional markets to milengo worldwide.