Salvatore “Salvo” Giammarresi is Head of Localization @ Airbnb. Previously he has held leadership roles at several technology companies in Silicon Valley including PayPal and Yahoo.

Salvo holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Palermo (Italy), where he was later a visiting professor, teaching localization.  Salvo is a published author on the topics of globalization, localization project management, international product management, formulaic sequences, translation studies and translation memory systems.

Salvo enjoys giving back and currently does so as an Executive Board Member @Translators without Borders, as an advisor to a few startups, and by speaking at conferences.

He started his professional career as an Italian-English-Italian freelance translator.