Christian Arno

Christian Arno (born 1 December 1978) is the founder and Managing Director of UK translation company Lingo24.

Education

Arno established Lingo24 as a 22-year-old Oxford University graduate in 2001. He won the Shell LiveWIRE ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ award in 2003.[1] As of 2009, he is a finalist in the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ category at the 2009 National Business Awards for Scotland.[2]

Career

Arno has also become a business commentator, and has been enlisted by Brand Republic to give advice for businesses seeking to globalise,[3] while the Sunday Times,[4] Telegraph,[5] and Financial Times[6] have also used Arno and Lingo24 as a case study in a range of business features.

Arno has also contracted to work for Smarta, an online support platform for business owners and entrepreneurs backed by Deborah Meaden from Dragons' Den, to provide expert advice to entrepreneurs looking to grow their businesses,[7] and he was also part of a panel of experts for the Guardian newspaper's Live Q&A session: what can I do with a degree in languages?, in July 2010.[8]

Other Career Activities

Later in 2010, Arno was commissioned to provide regular columns for a number of online publications, such as Econsultancy,[9] Search Engine Journal,[10] Search Engine Watch [11] and Brand Republic.[12] Arno became a Fellow of the British-American Project at its 2013 conference at the University of Cambridge.

References
  1. Shell LiveWIRE, Christian Arno, Lingo24 Archived 14 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Edinburgh Evening News, City Translators Spoken Highly of in Prize Shortlist, 2 May 2009
  3. Brand Republic, Tapping into Emerging Markets through Effective Communications, April 2009
  4. Sunday Times, How I Made it: Christian Arno, founder of Lingo24.com, 17 May 2009
  5. The Telegraph, Speaking in mother tongues translates into a success story, 19 May 2009 Archived 11 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Financial Times, Messages of doom don't mean the end of the world, 18 April 2009
  7. Smarta, Who is Christian? Archived 14 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  8. The Guardian, Live Q&A session: what can I do with a degree in languages? 21 July 2010
  9. Econsultancy
  10. Search Engine Journal
  11. Search Engine Watch
  12. Brand Republic
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