Valeria Macci

Attached has an awesome team and has continued to grow that team even through the corona crisis. One of our newest project managers, Valeria Macci from Italy, joined us in March right as the quarantine began. Because of this, she has only met her new colleagues through video chat. A unique start for a unique person.

A few days before the corona pandemic, Valeria went with her gut feeling to move. In less than 24 hours, she packed and moved from Italy to the Netherlands. A good thing she did because we’ve gained a terrific colleague passionate about interlingual communication and the need to understand and connect people.

At the age of 14, Valeria started translating her favorite song lyrics from English. This inspired her to study and learn more languages adding Mandarin Chinese, French and now Dutch to her portfolio. She is currently rounding out her ambition with a second Master’s in Marketing and Communication.

One of the benefits to starting a new job remotely is that it has given her more time to assimilate and learn gradually. Valeria says, “I was lucky to find a company with a long-term vision that decided to hire me despite the lockdown. I think that the main strength of Attached is represented by the people. With the right team, you’re never alone.”

Well said, Valeria. We can’t wait to meet you in person!

We are happy to introduce two new colleagues: Eve Davis and Ewa Kulesza. Among many other skills, they bring expertise in English, Spanish, Polish and localisation.

Eve Davis

Having gained experience in both teaching and translation, Eve discovered quickly her true passion lies with the latter. She began her degree in English and Spanish in 2014, but her interests go much further than that. Her fascination for culture and language brought her to study ancient history, archaeology and geography.

Any time not spent working gives her opportunity for travel, enjoying amazing food, and “relaxing at home with my dog”.

Attached has already had a great 2018, which was kicked off with a rebranding and new workflow innovations. When the result is getting more clients and more work, more excellent PMs are needed to ensure our clients’ high expectations are met.

So we are very happy to welcome:

Jennifer Verheggen-Rea

Jennifer is a self-described word nerd and has worked in the language industry for over ten years. She began as a freelance translator and content writer before moving into a broader capacity at Attached | Language intelligence as project manager and language specialist. Here, Jennifer is able to perfectly combine her experience in marketing, business development and customer service as well as her love for the English language, her mother tongue. Her strong suits are creative content and helping clients sharpen their messages to better target their chosen markets.

Jennifer is a US national but has lived in the Netherlands for over 15 years. She can be found cheering on her two children at their field hockey and soccer games. Jennifer enjoys playing field hockey herself, reading as many books as possible and tracking down strange ingredients for experimenting in the kitchen.

Laura Devies

Congratulations also to Laura Devies, our other new project manager. Laura has a great interest in languages and cultures and is especially passionate about Italy. That’s why she studied to become an Italian translator herself. Besides her passion for language, she takes a lot of pleasure in planning and organising things from translation jobs to dinner parties. She loves working at Attached because she can utilise those planning and language skills while working in an international environment. Besides that, Attached itself is very multicultural with colleagues just as enthusiastic about intercultural communication as she is.

In her spare time Laura likes to cook, travel and enjoy nature. We welcome Laura to our team and can’t wait to taste one of her Italian specialties.

Inna Iljina

In June we welcomed project manager Inna Iljina to the team. Inna loves communicating with all types of people, enjoys organising, planning and managing everything from localisation projects to (birthday) parties and travel with friends. A true multitasker, she can easily juggle hundreds of different tasks simultaneously and always solves problems with a smile. Speaking four languages fluently (incl. Russian and Latvian) and being a truly international person, Inna likes discovering new cultures, nuances of other languages and learning something new every day. She can combine all of this working in the diverse and multicultural environment of Attached.

Being very active, Inna plans something for almost every evening (like salsa dancing, drama classes, volleyball and board games, just to name the few). Inna cannot imagine her life without travelling and trying new experiences (for example, yoga with goats).

Eveline de Vetten

Last but not least, hello to our newest project manager Eveline de Vetten. Because of her love of languages and literature she studied English at Leiden University. After doing a summer internship in 2016 at Attached, she is joining us again but now in the function of project manager.

Aside from working at Attached, Eveline loves reading, writing, baking and walking. She looks forward to helping customers with their international communications.