Believe in your plan with Bryan Murphy, CEO of Smartling | C-Suite HotSeat E40

Bryan Murphy is the CEO of Smartling, a Translation and Localization software company servicing hundreds of global companies. Formerly Murphy was the VP of Vertical Markets at eBay and CEO and Co-Founder of WHI, a SaaS company, acquired by ebay in 2012. He has also served as CEO of Breather and as President of Digital for Serta Simmons.

Murphy serves as a director for Smarting, JEGS.com and Playpower . He is also an advisor for Starboard Capital Partners, and is a former director of Neighborly and PartsSource.

Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights
VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade

Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.

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This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Nika Allahverdi - Product
Antonella Tiezzi - Design

00:00 Bryan Murphy | CEO of Smartling
00:43 What does your company do?
01:11 What was your dream career as a child?
02:55 How do you like to spend your free time?
03:53 3 destinations you'd like to visit
05:12 Best advice you've ever been given?
06:37 What made you choose the language industry?
09:14 First breakthrough moment
10:54 Biggest challenge
12:44 What does success mean to you?
15:13 Who are your mentors?
17:30 How do you motivate your team?
19:20 Advice for entrepreneurs