XTM Names Rob Finney Chief Marketing Officer to Scale Adoption of Its Market-Leading AI Globalisation Platform
LONDON — XTM International, the leading provider of enterprise-grade translation management technology, today announced the appointment of Rob Finney as Chief Marketing Officer. Rob joins XTM at a pivotal time as the company continues to redefine the future of localisation through groundbreaking innovations in artificial intelligence.
Article content
Rob brings almost 20 years of experience in SaaS, with a proven track record of driving rapid customer adoption and scaling global growth. At XTM, he will lead the global marketing strategy, with a focus on accelerating growth and ensuring more organisations around the world discover the measurable business value XTM delivers by helping them bring products to market faster, reduce localisation costs, and increase global revenue potential.
Article content
'XTM is innovating at a pace the industry has never seen,' said Ian Evans, CEO of XTM International. 'With the launch of our Agentic AI suite, we are fundamentally transforming how organisations manage and scale localisation. Rob's expertise will help our current and future customers understand and adopt these innovations, enabling them to remove bottlenecks, drive efficiency, and create real commercial impact.'
Article content
Localisation is often a bottleneck that slows companies down, delays global launches, and increases costs, ultimately impacting revenue. XTM's recent release of its Agentic AI suite represents a major leap forward in solving this challenge. Combining context-aware automation, intelligent assistance, and workflow orchestration, Agentic AI delivers productivity and quality at scale helping organizations get to market faster, at lower cost, and with greater consistency.
Article content
'With Rob's appointment, XTM reinforces its commitment to helping customers unlock growth by transforming localisation from a blocker into a strategic enabler,' Evans added.
Article content
'XTM has always led the industry through customer-first innovation,' said Rob Finney, CMO of XTM International. 'I'm excited to join a company that is not only shaping the future of localisation but also delivering real, measurable value to organisations. Our technology doesn't just help teams work smarter, it helps businesses move faster, reduce overhead, and reach global customers more effectively. That's the kind of impact every organization needs right now.'
Article content
Article content
Article content
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
CTV News
24 minutes ago
- CTV News
This business professor thinks Norway should buy Harvard. Here's why
A professor at a Norwegian business school has floated a proposal that Norway should buy Harvard, considering its ongoing legal conflict with the Trump administration. Nathan Warren, a marketing professor at the BI Norwegian Business School, wrote an article published in Dagens Næringsliv, suggesting Norway should buy the Ivy League school and relocate it to the Oslo, the nation's capital. Warren, who is originally from Boston, Mass., told in an interview on Tuesday that growing up, he heard all about the institution. 'Harvard is the people of Harvard; it's the institution,' he said. 'And right now, there are a lot of people in that institution who don't feel particularly welcome and supported in the United States.' On June 4, the White House released a statement saying Trump had officially banned any international student visas at Harvard, claiming the school had seen a 'dramatic rise in crime' and a 'history of concerning foreign ties and radicalism.' Warren believes a change of scenery would be beneficial for the nearly 400-year-old institution. 'If you could match the amount of resources that they're getting right now, I think they would be delighted to be able to have the freedom and support that the Norwegian, or European structures could provide them,' he said. The proposal Norway has the resources and can provide the infrastructure to support the move, according to Warren. He admits that it would take some adjustment, but the Ivy League institution could certainty relocate. 'I think that there's a good opportunity to potentially capture the greatest intellectual resource that the United States, and perhaps the world, has,' he said. Warren points out that Norway would be the perfect fit, culturally for the institution and the students. Buying the university would also help Norway become a force in the realm of global academia and political landscapes. The Ivy League university has been at the top of the food chain when it comes to medical research, economic innovation, climate and reform. 'It's like a well-functioning democracy with copious amounts of money and great infrastructure, which is where universities tend to thrive,' he said. In the latest move by the Trump administration, a letter from Paula Stannard, the U.S. Health and Human Services' director of the Office of Civil Rights, was sent to the university, informing them of a referral made by the U.S. Department of Justice to address allegations of antisemitic discrimination. On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump had showed interest in settling with the prestigious university for US$500 million in the legal fight over the slashing of its US$2.6 billion funding. 'Well, it's a lot of money,' Trump told reporters at the White House. 'We're negotiating with Harvard now. They would like to settle, so we'll see what happens.' In July, Columbia agreed to pay more than $220 million to restore federal funding for the school. According to the Harvard International Office, 769 Canadian students are enrolled in the university in 2025, including Prime Minister Mark Carney's daughter, who are all left in limbo about their future.
CBC
an hour ago
- CBC
'Can I see some ID?' As online age verification spreads, so do privacy concerns
Ontario-based cybersecurity expert Richard Rogerson was surprised to get ID'd by a children's online gaming platform last month. His three kids had been playing the Roblox game Murder Mystery, until the platform put it behind an age verification system. They were asked to enter the email address of a parent, for permission to update their content maturity setting from "Mild" to "Moderate" if they wanted to keep playing. The email, which Rogerson shared with CBC News, asked him to enter his birthday and verify his age using a government-issued ID or credit card. "When my kids sent me a form saying, 'Upload your driver's licence,' you can imagine the amount of resistance that I had towards that," he said. While he had no problem with his kids playing the game, Rogerson declined to upload his ID, unsure how securely his data would be stored. His kids have had to give up Murder Mystery as a result. Online age verification systems are sweeping the internet as jurisdictions introduce laws to prevent children from accessing certain content, and a wave of privacy concerns has followed. The U.K.'s Online Safety Act took effect last Friday, putting age gates on pornography and other content deemed "harmful" to minors. Many websites are now required to ask U.K. users to verify their age using identifiers like selfies, driver's licences, passports or credit cards, triggering frustration and backlash from some users. While some sites have pulled out of the country rather than comply with the new rules, others are rolling out their own measures beyond the U.K. YouTube announced Tuesday it will introduce an age verification system with select U.S. users before implementing it more broadly. The video streaming platform will analyze the browsing patterns of users to determine their age before asking for other forms of ID. "We're seeing this kind of pop up everywhere," said Rogerson, who is the founder of Packetlabs, a cybersecurity firm specializing in professional hacking services. Data breaches raise alarms Rogerson says it's a good idea to restrict minors from accessing certain content, but it's also important to address related privacy and security concerns. Most companies rely on third-party verification systems, so the average user won't know who is privy to their private information, how secure it is, or how it's being stored. If that data is breached, the fallout can be disastrous. "You think about an adult website getting compromised, and here's all the faces of all the people and where they live, and here's all the content they viewed," Rogerson said. "That would be quite, quite damaging." Last Friday, San Francisco-based Tea Dating Advice Inc said in a statement that some 72,000 images, including 13,000 selfies and photo IDs, were leaked online from Tea, an app designed for women to vet dates by sharing information about men. Rogerson says Canada has mandatory breach notification laws, but some companies aren't sophisticated enough to even know when they've been breached. He says the U.K.'s General Data Protection Regulation, while not perfect, offers strong privacy protections in some areas and stiff penalties for violations. But he worries Canada is lagging behind, as its proposed legislation aimed at modernizing online privacy laws has been stalled. "We need the privacy laws here in Canada to protect Canadians, because it's every every day we're seeing companies get breached with hordes and hordes of privacy related information," he said. The Online Harms Act was introduced in February 2024 but didn't pass, and the federal government may rewrite or reintroduce the act. Justice Minister Sean Fraser recently said the government plans to take a "fresh" look at the legislation over the summer, though it's unclear what changes are coming. A ministry spokesperson did not answer whether age verification might be one of those changes, saying in an email Friday that the government "cannot speculate on legislation or content at this time." WATCH | Federal government debates online age verification: Can Canada really block kids from watching porn? | About That 1 year ago Tough choice for users Cliff Steinhauer, director of information security and engagement at the National Cybersecurity Alliance, a non-profit that promotes online safety, says age verification requirements present users with a tough choice when faced with insufficient or unclear privacy policies from the apps and websites they use. "It's like, either do this and accept the policy, or don't do it and don't get access to the service," he said. "As a user, I think you have to really ask yourself: Am I comfortable with this? If this were to be breached, what would the impact on me be? What is the risk that I'm taking by putting this selfie into this app? And is this service worth the risk?" Steinhauer says privacy laws need to put safeguards around age verification systems, like guarantees of deleting the data as soon as the user's age is verified. Several U.S. states have already implemented age verification laws. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring porn sites to verify the ages of all visitors after a judge previously struck it down as a violation of free speech. Australia has legislated a social media ban for users under 16, which is slated to go ahead in the coming months, and Quebec is considering following suit. Verification needed: advocate The Canadian Centre for Child Protection has been lobbying the federal government to mandate online age verification. Jacques Marcoux, the centre's director of research and analytics, worries about children being harmed by sexually explicit material online, pointing to a 2022 Mediasmart survey that found three in 10 Canadian youth in Grades 7 to 11 had encountered explicit material inadvertently, with most saying they were between the ages of nine and 13 when it first happened. Marcoux says while there is no perfect way to do it, verification is needed to require website operators to act more responsibly. Without that piece, he says other proposed online child protection measures could be hard to enforce. "I think this is maybe a first step in moving towards a better system, where it will be refined over time," he said. As a tech-savvy parent himself, Marcoux says even with parental controls, it's "impossible" to monitor a child's online activity 24/7. "The bottom line is that the current situation — which is that children of all ages have unfettered, no-friction access to essentially the whole of the content of the internet — is a problem that we can't turn away from," he said.
Globe and Mail
3 hours ago
- Globe and Mail
Riot Platforms, Inc. Faces Critical Risk in AI/HPC Sector Due to Dependency on External Partners
Riot Platforms, Inc. (RIOT) has disclosed a new risk, in the Sales & Marketing category. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Riot Platforms, Inc. faces a significant risk in its AI/HPC sector endeavors due to its reliance on third-party consultants, vendors, and potential customers. The company's success hinges on its ability to attract and retain long-term, creditworthy partners and customers to support the development and commercialization of its infrastructure. Failure to secure these relationships or if these external parties do not perform as expected, could result in the investment not delivering the anticipated returns. This dependency on external entities presents a critical risk factor that could impact Riot Platforms, Inc.'s financial outcomes. The average RIOT stock price target is $18.36, implying 66.46% upside potential. To learn more about Riot Platforms, Inc.'s risk factors, click here.
