Trad & Trade

My name is Riccardo and I graduated in Linguistic Mediation Sciences from the University of Pisa, formerly the High School for Interpreters and Translators. I live in Tuscany in the beautiful Versilia and during my academic career I learned the different translation techniques relating to the various sectors addressed: from tourism to food and wine, from architecture to economics, from technical to literary texts, and so on and so forth. In 2003 I moved to the United States where I worked as a Counselor for InterExchange, a humanitarian organization partner of the US Department of State. After graduating, I worked for almost 20 years as an Export Manager for various companies, creating an international sales network by activating distributors and resellers all over the world, significantly increasing their turnover. This has allowed me to travel a lot, visiting both existing and new potential customers and to organize and participate to many international trade fairs in several sectors: automation, lighting engineering, civil protection, machine tools, industry, construction, mobile rescue, electrical engineering, show business, etc.

I have traveled a lot to Germany, France, England, Spain, Switzerland, Holland, Poland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia and the United Arab Emirates.

Negotiation interpreting and the multiple translations of the various texts, catalogues and technical data sheets to promote the product abroad, in addition to the various specialization courses in business language, have allowed me to achieve an advanced professional knowledge in English , German, French and Spanish, I am a native Italian speaker.

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