Sonia Souto

Sonia Souto is the current Vice President of Operations, Content & Localisation at Memrise. Prior to this, they spent 12 years at The Walt Disney Company, where they were the Senior Manager of International Production & Localisation for Disney Consumer Products & Interactive Media. In this role, Sonia led a team of 7-13 people in charge of localisation project management strategy across multiple regions. Sonia also provided localisation consultancy services across the organisation and supervised the onboarding of new teams.

Under Sonia's leadership, the team expanded language support into Asian, Middle-East and Eastern European regions across Disney/Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars products within a period of 5 years. In addition, they enhanced the department's dashboard to report status of projects to executives and management, which included risk assessments, department objectives and milestones.

Sonia has a proven track record in successfully managing international teams and projects. Sonia is an expert in their field and is highly respected by their peers. Sonia is a strategic thinker with a passion for continuous improvement. Sonia is a strong leader who motivates their team to achieve success.

Sonia Souto has a Diploma in Public Service Interpreting from the Institute of Linguists IoL and a certification from the Scrum Alliance as a Certified Scrum Master. Sonia also has a certification from the Institute of Linguists IOL in Diploma in Public Service Interpreting.

Sonia Souto reports to Steven Toy, CEO. They are on a team with Ben Whately - Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Michael Stratton - Head of CRM, and Stuart Williamson - CFO.