About Us | LocalizeDirect

For a large part of our lives, we’ve been developing games. When we wanted to take them global, we started looking for a localization tool. Couldn’t find one. That’s why we built a CMS localization platform ourselves.

Soon we gained our first customer - Warner Bros! Since then we’ve helped over 500 enterprises and developers with their game localization pipelines. Legendary, Doom, Batman Origins and Shadow of Mordor went internationally and reached millions of gamers with us - what if your game is the next big thing?

Localizing games for 10 years, we have established a large, reliable network of native speaking translators into 65+ language pairs. Now, we provide translation, localization QA, and CMS services for the game development industry. LocalizeDirect is based in Sweden and Vietnam with a number of sales, localization & QA managers working across the globe.

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Leadership team

Christoffer Nilsson

CEO

Christoffer developed games for 20+ years before deciding that the world was in dire need of a CMS for all localization assets, tailor-made for the games industry. So he embarked on a journey to create the localization tool that game producers have been crying out for. His business and development knowledge drives the company forward and keeps the vision strong.

Mattias Wennerholm

CTO

Mattias has worked in many roles including senior software engineer, system architect, project manager, and chief technical director. Mattias’ multidiscipline background and extensive experience in both business systems and video games makes him the perfect choice to drive and develop our technology.

Martin Karlsson

CRO

Martin has over 14 years of experience in Business-to-Business technology sales as well as significant experience in scaling Software as a Service organizations. This provides a strong foundation for the continued delivery of best in class products and services while growing to enable LocalizeDirect to serve even more game developers globally.

Michael Souto

Business Development Director

With 20 years of games industry experience under his belt, including spells as Executive Producer at Eidos and nDreams, Michael brings a wealth of internal and external development production experience to LocalizeDirect. His understanding of the development and publishing cycle provides a key knowledge base that enhances our services to clients.

Antonio Mimmo

CMO

Antonio Mimmo has over 20 years of experience in marketing across many marketing disciplines. Having worked at small companies and large enterprise as well as marketing agencies, he brings a wealth of experience to growing companies. He was the Head of EMEA marketing at GitLab and the Marketing lead for the DACH region at Dell Financial Services.

Jesper Holmberg

Chairman

Experienced business developer, investor & fund manager.

Co-founder of Systematic Capital Nordic AB.
Founder of MCG AB, HIAB and HOBI Capital.
Advisor to VC, fund managers.
Experience from Area Manager, CEO to Chairman.
MBA from University of Lund; MBA studies at Lorang Institute in Zurich (Ceibs Group).

Erik Robertson

Board member

Entered game development in 1998.

Founder and owner of Nordic Game, the leading professional game developer conference in Europe.
Organizer and founder of local, regional, national, and European federations of games trade associations (including EGDF).
Founding partner of Nordic Game Ventures.
BBA, BSc and entrepreneurship Ph.D. studies at Lund University.

Mats Johanson

Board member

Experienced Venture Capitalist.

Co-founder and Partner at Spintop Ventures.
Co-founder and Partner at TeknoSeed Portfolio Management.
Co-founder of GP Bullhound Sidecar fund.
50+ investments in tech companies. 10+ exits including acquisitions by eBay, Microsoft, Alfa-Laval, and Zynga.
Previous CEO of NASDAQ Co and entrepreneur in the US, UK, and Sweden.