Build a Great Team with Gary Kalaci, CEO of Alexa Translations A.I. | C-Suite HotSeat E41

Episode 41 February 01, 2023 00:17:42
Build a Great Team with Gary Kalaci, CEO of Alexa Translations A.I. | C-Suite HotSeat E41
C-Suite HotSeat
Build a Great Team with Gary Kalaci, CEO of Alexa Translations A.I. | C-Suite HotSeat E41

Feb 01 2023 | 00:17:42

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Show Notes

A lawyer and award-winning entrepreneur, Gary Kalaci is CEO of Alexa Translations, a professional translation services firm, and Alexa Translations A.I., a leader in translation technology. In addition to steering his translation company's strategy and growth efforts, Gary has held leadership positions and sat on the boards of directors at several professional associations and not-for-profit organizations.

Gary’s business and legal training armed him with the skills required to work with clients across the finance, corporate, legal, and government sectors.

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.

Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.

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 Gary Kalaci | CEO of Alexa Translations A.I.
00:39 What does your company do?
00:47 What was your dream career as a child?
01:17 What made you choose the language industry?
02:35 How do you like to spend your free time?
03:21 3 destinations you'd like to visit
04:08 Best advice you've ever been given?
04:45 First breakthrough moment
06:28 Biggest challenge
09:41 Your biggest success
11:47 3 things that you spend the most time on
12:57 What are your clients looking for?
14:22 Valuable business lessons
15:48 Advice for entrepreneurs
16:25 How do you motivate your team?

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