Executive Leadership

CSOFT’s executive team is located in our Boston headquarters, as well as various locations across North America, Europe, and Asia, providing global support for your business’s growth in any region or country. We firmly believe that a strong executive team is critical for the growth and success of any organization, and we take pride in having the top team in the localization industry. Our executive team offers round-the-clock, year-round coverage and support to meet all of your business growth requirements.

Shunee Yee

President & CEO

Ms. Shunee Yee, with over 25 years in the language industry, is the founder and CEO of CSOFT International. Recognized among Fortune’s Top 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs and CNN Money’s Top 25 Innovation disrupters, Ms. Yee has steered CSOFT’s rapid growth, establishing it as a leading translation company.

Beyond her business achievements, she actively supports educational and social causes, serving as a trustee at Dexter Southfield school and contributing to international programs at Johns Hopkins University. Notably, she co-chaired the Taste of Ginger diabetes education initiative in 2021 and 2022. Currently, she serves on the board of directors at Beth Israel Lahey Health’s Joslin Diabetes Center, demonstrating her commitment to Boston’s Life Sciences sector.

Diego Di Leva

Vice President, Global Operations & Strategic Partnership

Originally from Italy, Diego Di Leva is the VP of Global Language Resources. In this role, Diego leads teams responsible for executing end-to-end project management and supply chain strategy.

He joined CSOFT as an Italian QA Specialist/Translator, position that he covered for five years after which he has started to cover more managerial and operational roles. Prior to joining CSOFT, Diego worked as a Tech Consultant for two years at a leading global mobile company.

Paul Canton

Vice President, Data Security and Cloud Technology, Chief of Staff

Living in Canada, Paul Canton is the VP of Data Security & Information Management for CSOFT International. Paul is responsible for working directly with IT, Management and Sales to support business development and client services.

Though he started in Political Science at Saint Mary’s University, in 2003 he made the move to the life science localization industry. Paul has more than 15 years of experience working in the translation and localization industry.

Carl Yao

Executive Vice President, Strategic Business Development & General Manager, Stepes

Bringing more than 15 years of experience to his role at CSOFT, Carl Yao is responsible for the strategic planning and business development of CSOFT’s services, products, and technologies across North America, Asia, and Europe.

With the goal of leveraging and expanding CSOFT’s globalization solutions portfolio to optimize business outcomes and help customers extract greater value from CSOFT’s offerings, Carl plays a key role in the formulation and execution of long-term strategies.Prior to CSOFT, Carl was the principal architect for the development of the world’s first multilingual speech engine that used natural human voice to synthesize speech at the company he founded, YAOS Technologies. He also served as the CTO for Animation Technologies, based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Carl has a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Computer Science from Whitman College in Washington State and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Brown University.

Michael Gray

Executive Director, North America Business Development

Michael brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, a dedication to the language industry, and a customer centric focus in support of navigating and succeeding in foreign markets.

Michael majored in Portuguese and International Business and has almost 10 years of specific localization industry experience. As a bilingual, localization has been a life pursuit and brings an understanding of how critical your global and international efforts are.

Vladimir (Vlado) Misik

VP Global Clinical Trial Strategy at CSOFT Health Sciences

Vladimir (Vlado) Misik brings more than 30 years of biomedical R&D experience into his role of VP Global Clinical Trial Strategy at CSOFT Health Sciences.

After his MSc degree physics and biophysics, and a PhD in biophysics and pharmacology, he worked as a several years as a research scientist in the fields of cardiology, at the School of Medicine at the George Washington University, and oncology, at the National Cancer Institute at the NIH in Bethesda. After his biomedical research scientist tenure, he moved into biopharma product development, including 15+ years at Quintiles/IQVIA in various senior executive roles including VP & Head of Central and Eastern Europe and MENA, and VP of Global Delivery Network. He also served as an executive board member and a CEO at SanaClis, a global full-service specialty CRO. He is a founder/ co-founder of two companies providing services to the clinical research industry: LongTaal, proprietary clinical trials informatics platform, and of VIARES, a clinical research talent organization.

Vlado in an author of > 60 research articles and book chapters in peer-reviewed journals: his current research focus are global geographic trends in industry clinical trials. He serves as an editorial board member at Applied Clinical Research, Clinical Trials, and Regulatory Affairs journal, and is a member of the DIA Core Committee for Clinical Research.

Sydney Lacavalla

HR Manager, North America

With nearly five years of experience in Human Resources, Sydney manages HR for CSOFT’s North America operations. Sydney received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire. She holds a SHRM-CP certification and is a member of the Society of Human Resources Management.

Michael Olmos

Global Delivery and Operations Manager

Michael Olmos has 6+ years of localization industry experience and a background of 8+ years as a professional linguist, specializing in the translation of human rights reports from Portuguese into English. Michael has previously served as CSOFT’s Senior Customer Success Manager and Medical Devices Team Lead and brings extensive experience in localization project management focusing on life science companies. He holds an MA in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a BA in Foreign Languages from the University of New Mexico.

Emily Zhu

Corporate Controller

Emily brings 15+ years of experience in auditing, finance, and administration. Prior to joining CSOFT, she held the finance director position at a China publicly-listed company and was the regional head of Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (AEI), headquartered in Denver, USA.

Emily helped lead the regional team through a significant multi-year transformation which provided a solid accounting foundation to fuel growth for the company. She received her double bachelor degrees of Commerce in accounting and finance and Arts in economics from Auckland University, New Zealand. She is also an associate member of CIMA and certified chartered accountant with fellow membership of ACCA.

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