For more than a decade, Nathalie Molina Niño has played key strategic roles with Lionbridge, the world’s leading translation & global outsourcing company. Most recently she launched Lionbridge’s groundbreaking international Search Engine Marketing venture. Previously, Molina Niño co-led the team that grew Lionbridge’s franchise with Microsoft into a nearly $100M business, turning Microsoft into Lionbridge’s largest client.

Prior to entering the international business space, Molina Niño launched a startup at the age of 21, during the dot com boom. Since then, she’s been advising businesses of all shapes and sizes on adapting their products and messaging for international markets. She’s worked with a broad list of artists, entrepreneurs and organizations ranging from multinationals (Disney, Microsoft, MTV, The Discovery Channel, Mattel), early stage startups (Cranium, Onvia) and non-profits (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Affairs Council, Seattle International Film Festival, Hedgebrook). In addition to her role at Lionbridge, Molina Niño sits on the boards of businesses and non-profits she’s passionate about and is actively involved in the New York theatre community. 

Molina Niño believes that the single most important success factor for any viable business is the ability to craft and communicate meaningful stories. To broaden her story-telling range and leadership abilities, Molina Niño recently enrolled in Columbia University’s Theatre program where she is focusing on directing and producing, while continuing her strategic development work with Lionbridge.

Molina Niño contributes to various publications as an expert in global SEO, digital media globalization, crowdsourcing and gender and culture issues in business, including  4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss (expanded version published December, 2009),  “Latino Link” Building Brands Online with Hispanic Communities and Content by Joe Kutchera (Sept 2010) and Internet Evolution. She contributes to the online magazine Being Latino, and recently has been visible on the topic of cultural agility, global SEM and the impact of crowdsourcing and social networks on language and the translation industry.