Christian Arno

Christian Arno (born 1 December 1978) is the founder and Managing Director of UK translation company Lingo24.

Arno established Lingo24 as a 22-year-old Oxford University graduate in 2001. He won the Shell LiveWIRE ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ award in 2003.[1] As of 2009, he is a finalist in the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ category at the 2009 National Business Awards for Scotland.[2]

Arno has also become a business commentator, and has been enlisted by Brand Republic to give advice for businesses seeking to globalise,[3] while the Sunday Times,[4] Telegraph,[5] and Financial Times[6] have also used Arno and Lingo24 as a case study in a range of business features.

Arno has also contracted to work for Smarta, an online support platform for business owners and entrepreneurs backed by Deborah Meaden from Dragons' Den, to provide expert advice to entrepreneurs looking to grow their businesses,[7] and he was also part of a panel of experts for the Guardian newspaper's Live Q&A session: what can I do with a degree in languages?, in July 2010.[8]

Later in 2010, Arno was commissioned to provide regular columns for a number of online publications, such as Econsultancy,[9] Search Engine Journal,[10] Search Engine Watch [11] and Brand Republic.[12] Arno became a Fellow of the British-American Project at its 2013 conference at the University of Cambridge.

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