Yuka Nakasone

Chief Strategist - Globalization and Localization at Global Bridge

Yuka Nakasone is a Barcelona-based globalization and localization strategist with over 25 years of experience helping businesses grow international revenue. As Chief Strategist at Global Bridge, she advises on international growth strategy, market entry, localization, and language technology including AI and machine translation. She is Executive Director of the Global Chamber's Spanish chapters, a professor at La Salle Campus Barcelona teaching internationalization, localization, and AI, and a trilingual (Japanese/English/Spanish) executive interpreter and technical translator. She is a LocLunch ambassador and has served on LocWorld's Process Innovation Challenge advisory committee and judged the Think Global Awards.

Experience

Chief Strategist - International Growth at Global Bridge, S.L.

Jan 2001 — Present · 25 yrs 6 mos

Helps businesses grow international revenue through market entry, localization, and language technology (AI, MT).

Executive Director at The Global Chamber

Jul 2023 — Present · 3 yrs

Builds and runs the Global Chamber's Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, and Malaga metro chapters.

Professor at La Salle Campus Barcelona

Feb 2023 — Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

Lectures on internationalization, localization, globalization, NLP/AI, and cultural intelligence.

Globalization and Localization Director at Intento

Jun 2020 to May 2021 · 11 mos

Led international growth and localization strategy for the AI/MT startup.

Globalization and Localization Director at Beabloo

Jul 2015 to Jan 2021 · 5 yrs 6 mos

Built and directed all language operations for a global digital-marketing analytics company.

Recent articles and events

Maintaining Mental Health in Crisis

Panel: What's Globalization?

Panel: Rising Tides - Filling the education gap in L10n through mentorship and coaching

Mental health in the workplace

Social selling - why you should care how to do it right

Start here: the case for strategic content localization

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