Welocalize CEO and leadership

Edward Yewell is a Co-Founder at Welocalize. He works or has worked at Transware. Edward attended Tulane University.

Erin Wynn is the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) of Regulated Industries, including Park IP Translations, a Welocalize company. She is competitive by nature and enjoys collaborating and driving teams. Therefore, having the responsibility for the dynamic Park IP Translations team makes her feel right at home. She thrives in companies with an entrepreneurial spirit, doing things differently, and where change is the norm. Erin joined Welocalize, parent to Park IP, as part of the Transware acquisition in 2008. Prior to taking on the General Manager role for the Park IP Translations subsidiary, she was Welocalize’s senior executive responsible for global sales and marketing. Before joining Welocalize, Erin spent the last 20 years in various sales and management roles. She feels her current success comes from many years in the trenches. She had great success as an individual contributor and feels strongly that in order to lead you have to have been there before and understand what others are going to have as challenges. She has held roles in sales management, channel development and management, and vendor relations. After college Erin worked at Piper Jaffray and McGladrey & Pullen in Minneapolis. Her introduction to sales came when she joined CBT Systems in the emerging e-learning industry. She had great success and moved through the ranks for the following 10 years. She then joined Transware and started her journey in the localization industry. Erin is from the Midwest of the United States growing up in Iowa, going to college in South Dakota, first job in Minneapolis. You betcha! She now lives in the middle of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona (the Midwest winter’s will do that to you). Her true passion is being with her husband. David of 22 years, their 10 year old daughter Kyah Ashley and two labradoodles, Bogey and Jazz. When she has time she enjoys reading, golf, biking, exercise (really any sport will do), movies anything that involves spending time with the family. She is also known to shop a bit, I think they call it a shopaholic!

Chris has responsibility for leading Welocalize global innovation initiatives, including technology solutions, research and development, as well as information technology. A Senior Executive at Welocalize, he works directly with the CEO to define growth strategies and operational planning to meet the organization’s targeted revenues and margins. Chris is active in creating innovative solutions and deploying best practices to help Welocalize’s valued clients maximize operational efficiencies and achieve measurable results. He is vigorously involved in defining technology leadership and innovation, mergers and acquisitions, creating processes and standards to meet the business goals. Chris originally joined Welocalize in 2002 through acquisition of a company he founded, GSSI. As Welocalize’s Chief Operations Officer, he strategically positioned the company to exceed all growth goals and become a forefront industry leader. He has managed sales, marketing, operations and designed million dollar annual revenue programs for technology, consumer, manufacturing business leaders. He established service models that enabled customer loyalty and 95% customer retention. He was contributor and author of multi-year and multi-million dollar selling strategies for Fortune 500 customers. He returned to Welocalize in 2013 to manage the North America. With more than 15 years in senior leadership in the translation and localization industry, Chris has worked directly and consulting with the world’s leading global brands, including Google, MobilePaks/VIA, EAI Information Systems, Compli, Redbrick Networks, Microsoft, Concur, Ariba and others in achieving their globalization strategies and business goals. Chris is based in Portland, Oregon. He is currently a Board Director and President of Mt Hood Ski Education Foundation. MHSEF is a 25-year-old non-profit athletic and academic organization with 85 athletes. He graduated from Linfield College and has a Sociology Bachelor of Arts degree.

Executive with high entrepreneurial drive, global business leadership success and proven experience of delivering growth led Business Transformation. Deep understanding of the Services industry with strong experience in Business Strategy, P&L Management and Operations. Demonstrated ability to build and lead large Global teams, chart growth oriented strategy and execute on it to drive substantial business growth.

Edward Yewell is a Co-Founder at Welocalize. He works or has worked at Transware. Edward attended Tulane University.