Meet the eLoc team

Tiago – Co-founder, Doctor of veterinary medicine

Co-founder of eLoc, Tiago is both a veterinarian and a linguist, even if by happenstance.A veterinarian with an international education profile, Tiago has always been a clinician at heart. Having served a 10-year tenure in the Portuguese official veterinary services, with roles in international missions on epidemiology, emerging diseases and food safety, Tiago found himself accidentally in the translation industry after a friend of his requested his assistance.

This soon progressed into a rather niche activity in clinical trials and regulatory affairs, which coincidentally drew on his research experience in pre-clinical trials and his work in a competent authority.

Following a move to Germany and further development of this activity, which culminated with eLoc’s incorporation during the COVID-19 epidemic, in early 2022 Tiago chose to go back into clinical practice, while still remaining actively engaged in eLoc’s activities.

He currently holds a professional license in three countries, catering to a demanding international clientele.

Tiago has a list of published papers that can be found on PubMed or his ORCID.

working Languages

Native in Portuguese
German into Portuguese
Spanish into Portuguese
English into Portuguese
French into Portuguese

Fun facts: Rock guitarist and bassist, father of 3, has a license to practice veterinary medicine in 3 countries: France, Portugal and Germany. Also an amazing cook!

Anne – Co-founder, Chief Coffee Maker

Co-founder of eLoc and its current CEO. Anne is a highly seasoned medical translator with over 13 years experience in that field out of 17+ years of career, and has been a member of BDÜ (German Federation of Interpreters and Translators) since 2014.

Anne is also a seasoned eLearning consultant & instructional designer – that seed started growing when she created in 2913 an online training platform from scratch for translators (the Alexandria Library) – tapping from her experience as an eLearning Product Manager in one of Germany’s leading corporate eLearning providers. She has been helping organisations and associations build their eLearning platforms and training solutions since 2017.

She works full-time at eLoc, where she handles all in-house French medical projects, project management and client communication.

working Languages

Native in French
German into French
English into French

Fun facts

Rock singer, highly skilled slave and door-opener for the feline overlord species, horse-lover. Loves cooking, baking and gardening. Mother (multitasking superpowers!).
Passionate about life science, history and (geo)politics.
Speaks Argentine Spanish (che boludo!) and actually learnt Russian – but the only thing she remembers is how to ask for directions to the Red Square.

Education and background

MA, Translation, Lyon, France – 2008
BA in Applied Foreign Languages (German, English, Russian) Lyon, France – 2006
Studied political sciences and history in Nîmes, France, before going into languages and entering Translation School.

Grew up between France and Vienna, Austria, between French military air bases and international organisations & embassies. Lived in Dublin (to learn English once and for all – as incredible as it may be for a translator, she used to be really bad in English at school!), spent a while in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden for an internship. After graduating from university in Lyon, France, she then promptly moved to Buenos Aires (after having chosen Russian as a 3rd foreign language instead of Spanish… that went well in Argentina!) where she spent 2 years. She then lived 13 years in Germany, close to Freiburg. After years abroad, she is now finally back in France, close to Strasbourg.

Career

2009-2011: Conferences Coordinator, ProZ.com – La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011-2015: In-house medical translator and PM, GxP Language Services – Emmendingen, Germany
2013-2015: Co-founder and managing partner, The Alexandria Library – Emmendingen, Germany
2015-2017: Product Manager eLearning and Blended Learning, Haufe Group – Freiburg, Germany
2017-2020: Freelance hybrid medical translator/ translation agency, freelance instructional designer (operating under “eLoc Solutions”) – Emmendingen, Germany
2019: Head of User Support & Training, Allthings GmbH – Freiburg, Germany
2020-today: Tiago and Anne merge their freelance businesses. Anne’s “eLoc Solutions” incorporates and becomes eLoc Smart Solutions GmbH, with Anne & Tiago as co-founders and co-owners. Tiago is the first CEO, Anne took over the position in 2022 when Tiago went back to practicing veterinary medicine full-time. The company has been constantly providing the same services as before the merger: medical & life science translations and eLearning consulting services, while expanding into a boutique agency beyond the medical field.

Achievements & bragging rights

Conferences

Anne has coordinated and co-organised 23 ProZ international translation conferences worldwide in her Conferences Coordinator role at ProZ.com between 2009 and 2011. After this, she organised both TriKonf 2013 and TriKonf 2015 in Freiburg, Germany – and MedTranslate 2014, which was the first international conference for medical translators – also in Freiburg in October 2014.
After a long break from event organisation, she decided to relaunch MedTranslate – and is now organising the MedTranslate 2025 conference in October 2025 in Mulhouse, France ( medtransconf.com).

Speaking and training engagements

Until 2015, when she temporarily left the translation industry to work in the eLearning industry, Anne was a speaker and trainer with multiple engagements, online and offline at workshops and conferences, focusing on SEO and online marketing for freelance translators and LSPs. She delivered over 50 training sessions, webinars or presentations. Some of them included:

– ITI International Conference 2013, Gatwick, 2013
– XX. FIT World Congress, Berlin, 2014
– Multiple workshops across Germany for the BDÜ, the German federation of Translators between 2012 and 2015
– Multiple presentations on SEO, online reputation and content strategy, like at BP14 conference (Budapest), ProZ 2013 Interanion Conference (Porto), etc.
– Workshop: “Link in, Tweet Up, Branch Out” – ITI Scottish Network, Glasgow, 2014
– ITA 2015 International Conference, Jerusalem, 2015
– ITI International Conference 2015, Newcastle, 2015
– Workshop on SEO, APROTRAD, Orléans, France, 2015
– Workshop on LinkedIn, ITA conference 2017, Tel Aviv, 2017