Annette Lawlor

Founder/Owner

After many amazing years in the USA, Annette returned home to Ireland, started a family of three kids and one company! Izzy, Noah, Ellie, and Lion People Global, a Localization specific recruitment, talent, and related business services company. Like her kids, Lion People has grown up too and now provides Growth Services through its Talent and M&A Solutions practices, focusing initially on Language Services and extending to Data and AI, Digital Marketing, and Software Industries.

With an educational background in Marketing, and a multi-year career in Sales & Marketing for global Media and Software organizations. Annette realized her true passion was people, connections and finding synergies between the two.

Olga Blasco

M&A Principal Partner, Growth Solutions

Olga is a recognized professional in the language services industry. After 20 years in leadership positions at large US corporations in the top 10 worldwide, since 2016 her mission is to help business owners with their growth strategy to increase the value of their companies and fulfill their end game through the right investments in talent, technology, and M&A. With LPG she assesses M&A matches and facilitates deals, guiding buyers and sellers with expert advice.

A native of Barcelona and a nomad at heart, she operates out of Dublin and Istanbul, where she co-founded a project supporting women entrepreneurship and social economy innovation.

Caroline Williams

Director of Strategic Growth – Growth Solutions

Caroline is a seasoned international growth professional with over 17 years of experience in the digital industry. Born with a unique binational and bicultural perspective, she has called Madrid, New York, Washington DC, Miami, Virginia, and Barcelona home. Her academic background in clinical psychology, coupled with a master’s degree in online marketing, drives her passion for corporate communications and international business.

Caroline has a track record in cultivating and nurturing client relationships, ensuring the success of establishing stable commercial connections and strategic partnerships on a global scale.

Dave Ruane

Global Director Client Solutions

Dave Ruane brings with him over two and a half decades of invaluable experience in the localization industry, coupled with a proven track record of driving innovation and fostering strategic partnerships. When he is not solving business challenges, building partnerships, creating content strategies, running innovation platforms, or moderating events, you may find him fly fishing, travelling with his family around Spain, or following Ireland’s rugby teams.

His own personal brand is all about innovation, excellence, and driving transformative change.

Ruth Tracey

Community and Talent Manager

With a versatile background spanning Vendor Management, Project Management, and Account Management in the localization industry, Ruth’s expertise in Vendor Management showcases her ability to cultivate and maintain robust industry relationships. As a Project Manager, she consistently delivers results with precision and timeliness. In her role as an Account Manager, Ruth excels at understanding the unique needs of clients, ensuring successful collaborations and optimal localization solutions.

Ruth is a seasoned professional known for her diverse skill set. Her passion lies in the art of connecting with people, and she thrives on guiding them toward the right direction in their professional journeys.

Jagoda Krzyston

Senior Account Manager – Growth Solutions

Jagoda has lived in several countries, and being a keen traveller has made her a good communicator, who thrives in the international environment. After working in the travel industry for a while, she moved to the localization field and has been with Lion People Global since. With experience in various roles within the company, from marketing, recruitment, and account management.

She is dedicated, and versatile, with good organisational and relationship-building skills, always ready to take on a new challenge.

Julie Molierac

Senior Recruitment and Talent Consultant and BDM

Julie brings over 10 years of expertise in sales, client relationship management, customer success and Talent strategic consulting. Her focus is client satisfaction, value assurance and Talent strategy success.

She worked for 4 years in recruitment agencies, including Lion People Global, managing the agency’s large clients in the translation/ localization and Tech industry. She is an experienced Account Manager and 360 sourcer. Julie has also 6 years working at LinkedIn as a Recruitment and Talent Development Consultant, successfully guiding both small accounts and global Fortune 500 logo clients, consistently assuring their hire and retain the best candidates and workforce.

Known for her consultative proactive approach, adaptability, and collaborative spirit, Julie excels at fostering lasting candidate and client partnerships.

Gabriela Vicente

Talent Manager

Gabriela is a dedicated Talent Manager with nearly eight years of experience in the localization industry, where she has honed her passion for recruitment. Her strong communication and interpersonal skills enable her to thrive on connecting skilled professionals with opportunities that align with their career goals and the organization’s needs, making each placement a rewarding accomplishment.

Her role involves not just finding the right talent but also ensuring a perfect fit for both the individual and the company, a challenge that she relishes daily.

Justyna Molęda

Administration and Marketing Manager

Justyna has spent many years in scouting, where she fell in love with nature. In her opinion, a long walk is one of the best ways to spend free time and think. Now she uses her experience as a teacher and a scout leader in LPG. Creative, patient and with attention to detail.

Justyna is a teacher by education, she loves to look for creative ways to solve problems.

Run by Experts, for Experts

Twenty Years and Counting

For over a decade, we have expanded our industry expertise to include Localization and Globalization, AI and Big Data, Digital and Software Development. Our dedicated account managers work tirelessly to match your requirements with hand-picked and high-calibre candidates.

LEARN ABOUT LION PEOPLE M&A

You’re in Good Company

With our European headquarters in the Localization Hub of Ireland, our current client base is spread throughout the US, South America, Asia and Eastern and Western Europe. Combined with our contacts and partners in the US, we have the global reach to be your true Localization, AI, Digital and IT, recruitment partner. At Lion People Global, we know it’s crucial for you to have access to the most talented employees. Which is why we’ve become the only truly global experts at connecting highly skilled individuals with agencies and brands. We are experts in placing people because we always put them first.

LEARN ABOUT LION PEOPLE STAFFING

We see Annette and L10N People as an extension of our own team
VistaTEC has been working with Annette since 2004 and throughout this time I have found her to be in a league of her own in comparison to other agencies. What makes them different from all the rest is their knowledge of our business, the partnership approach they take and not least their ability to deliver through hard work and dedication. 8 years on and myself and my colleagues on the VistaTEC management team see Annette and L10N People as an extension of our own team.
Siobhan Gantly
– VistaTEC Ltd
It was great to meet Olga in person
I truly enjoyed our session, and wish we had more – she had a lot of great advice!
Mary Kazamias
Chief Executive Officer at TRSB Inc
They are the go-to when it comes to recruiting in the localization industry
Lion People Global was great at helping us find the right people for the job. They listened carefully to the requirements we needed and were able to present us with multiple suitable candidates to choose from. For us, they are the go-to when it comes to recruiting in the localization industry.
Joanna Weitz
– Argos
It is very impressive that she always acts quickly
Annette is highly reliable and professional who always provides fast support whenever we need it. It is very impressive that she always acts quickly and strives to fulfil the tasks. She has worked hard and given me peace of mind that she will arrange everything well on time, every time. I would highly recommend her services.
Iris Zhang
– EC -CHINA, BEJING
I highly recommend Annette and Lion People Global
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Annette since 2007. I’ve been on both sides, that of hiring manager and candidate. As a candidate, I was thoroughly impressed with the way I was positioned and coached for a senior role that I was hired for. Later I used Annette to find very specific skilled localisation talent at short lead times with the best-benchmarked pricing, enabling me to focus on my core tasks. I highly recommend Annette and Lion People Global.
David Flynn
– SAJAN SOFTWARE LIMITED
Annette has been a valuable business partner of mine for 15+ years
She has helped me build sales teams in North America and the Asia Pacific, significantly decreasing the time to ramp with qualified, experienced candidates. Most recently, it has been a delight to be on the other side of the recruitment process as a candidate that Annette has placed! Her professionalism, her connectedness in the localization and digital marketing industries, her responsiveness, her overall knowledge of industry trends, are the characteristics for which I rely on Annette and look forward to future collaboration.
Allison McDougall
– Allison McDougall
Annette was very diligent in following up on each meeting
I can highly recommend Annette to any potential candidate or employer. She is an extremely competent recruitment professional. Each opportunity Annette presented to me was tailored to the specifications I had laid out at the beginning of our engagement. Annette was very diligent in following up on each meeting and obtaining 360 feedback on each interview. This was crucial in improving my positioning in the market and ultimately helped in securing my current position.
Paul Mac Aree
– SDL INTERNATIONAL

How does it all work?

It’s easy. Get in touch with one of our Lions, tell them what you need and the hunt begins!
All our Lions are trained in Advanced Boolean Search and are Boolean Certified. We use SaaS-based recruitment technology, with full candidate and client workflow tracking and online integrated timesheets that can be accessed by mobile or desktop, anywhere in the world.

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Analía Cassano

Justyna Molęda

Run by Experts, for Experts

Twenty Years and Counting

You’re in Good Company

We see Annette and L10N People as an extension of our own team

It was great to meet Olga in person

They are the go-to when it comes to recruiting in the localization industry

It is very impressive that she always acts quickly

I highly recommend Annette and Lion People Global

Annette has been a valuable business partner of mine for 15+ years

Annette was very diligent in following up on each meeting

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