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Mario originally comes from Sicily, but later moved to Pisa to study computer science at university.
With Greek flatmates and a Spanish girlfriend (now wife), by chance he started working on automatic translation systems and ended up dealing with localization.
Mario has two sons, manages a basketball team, has a passion for travel and hiking, and is a fine food and wine lover.
He’s happy and proud to be part of Stoquart team!

Dimitri was born, studied, lives and works in Mons – so, definitely the place to be!
He is a translator, wheeler-dealer, entrepreneur, and networker. He is also a workaholic, which perhaps explains how he manages to successfully run a business and still find time for his lovely red-haired wife and his 6-kid blended family!
In between everything else he enjoys city mini-holidays, museums, old books, and pleasant restaurants.

Allysson graduated from the University of Mons as an Occupational and Organizational Psychologist in 2009. After working as Office Manager in a company specialising in renewable energies, she joined Stoquart’s great team. She enjoys travelling and visiting new destinations, shopping, hanging out with her friends and spending some quality time at home reading a great book. She is also a TV show addict, always looking for a new show to watch!

Antonella has always been passionate about foreign languages and cultures.

After graduating as a German/Dutch/English into Italian translator from the University of Trieste (Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori), she first moved to Milan and worked as a translator and assistant in the Italian offices of a German law and tax firm. She soon had the opportunity to move back to Pisa, her home town, to join the translation and localization team at Synthema srl, a company providing language services into Italian. She spent nearly 20 years there, working as a translator, reviewer and project manager.

Lately, when her colleague and friend Mario Spoto decided to start a new “adventure” in the translation business with Stoquart, she was happy to participate and become part of the large Stoquart family!

Aurore graduated from the University of Brussels in 2018. After moving from France to Brussels, she discovered Belgian life and started studying translation. She loved it so much she decided to stay. She enjoys reading, travelling, cooking and watching TV series as well as the news.

Faustine graduated from the FTI-EII, where she studied English and Russian. Immediately after graduating, she started working for the United Nations and spent 8 months at the New York Headquarters. For family reasons she came back to Belgium and looked for a job in the translation sector. She found one in Brussels, but the long commutes soon got on her nerves and she’s now happy to work in Mons, where she lives and was born.

Jordana graduated in Office Management specialising in business translation and interpreting at the University College of Ghent in 2015. As Jordana has always been passionate about languages, she completed her secondary education in Ypres knowing four languages. She then moved to Ghent where she started her Bachelor’s Degree. At the end of the programme she completed her internship at the International Office of the Business and Information Management faculty of the University College of Ghent, where she met Erasmus students from all over the world.
Afterwards, she started working as an Office Manager in the metal industry but decided to leave and to go back to her first passion. Thanks to Stoquart she can start from scratch and is pleased to be part of the Project Management Team.

Laetitia’s life story is one of travel. Born in Djibouti, she then moved to Bangladesh for 3 years with her parents before returning to Belgium. Thanks to her expatriate father, she has traveled extensively and visited many countries, starting when she was very young.

At the age of 11, she entered the SHAPE International School, which gave her the opportunity to grow up in a multicultural environment.

In 2007, she had the chance to travel to Bolivia for one year of complete immersion in an amazing country.

Quite naturally, she enrolled at the University of Mons to study translation in English and Russian, Russian being a new language challenge.

She graduated in 2013 with a Master’s degree in multidisciplinary translation and then completed a traineeship at the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Parliament in Luxembourg in 2014.

She worked as an English tutor for a year, teaching students from 7 to 77 before joining Stoquart’s Project Management team in 2015.

Laurence graduated as a German/English into French translator in Mons in 2004. She then headed for Berlin, where she was supposed to stay for a two-month internship. She then had the opportunity to do another internship at Leinhäuser Language Services (then Leinhäuser & Partners), in Munich, before going back to Berlin. All in all, she spent a bit more than 4 years in Germany, of which she kept a strong, if somewhat strange, urge to abide by traffic lights and a weakness for spatzle and Bratwurst.

Back in Belgium, she got lost in the automotive industry. Making the best of it, she used this time to study for a Master’s degree in international politics and, most importantly, to have a wonderful little boy. Back to her professional first love, she is now a project manager at Stoquart and happy to be back in the translation business.

Marie graduated from the FTI-EII, where she studied English and Dutch. She began her career working as a supply teacher in a secondary school in Saint-Ghislain (near Mons). She found this short-term job really interesting, but she wanted to find another one in the translation sector which better matched her skills and preferences. Her quest led her here where she became the newest member of our Project Management team.

Alice graduated from the University of Mons as a translator from German/English into French. She is a country girl fascinated by peaceful and natural landscapes. Alice’s world is made up of simple things: pink, love and smiles! Curious about everything, her goal in life is to create her own world. She is often described as funny – but also has strong opinions and enjoys high-level intellectual discussions. Alice likes singing, cooking, reading, learning, eating chocolate and visiting historical monuments. Where can you find her? At the seaside, searching for seashells!

Aline is the only one among the translators at the office who studied in Brussels. But as she’s lived in the country since she was born, she couldn’t bear living in the big city… That’s why she came back in the countryside to have her house built. As her husband is not a do-it-yourselfer at all (although he’s a cook!), she had to handle the building herself. She loved that and this made her like supervising!

So, she came back from the capital, began working at Stoquart in 2003 as a translator from English and German into French, had her house built, married and had 2 lovely children (the “royal couple” as we say in French – 1 boy and 1 girl), for whom she began knitting a few years ago.

At work, she specialized in localization from English and progressively got bigger projects to manage. She has so much work that she always needs help! Fortunately, she can rely on the team!

Anne lives in a small village in the hinterland, away from the hustle and bustle of the French Riviera. She left Paris several years ago and finally headed south where she now lives with her partner and their little boy.

Attracted by foreign cultures thanks to several trips to Great-Britain and Germany when she was a child, and fond of words as a whole, she hesitated between becoming a speech therapist and turning to language studies. She eventually chose to become a translator, maybe to add her “personal touch” to her environment, as most of her family members were already into medicine… after all, translating is also a way of caring for others!

After enjoying a young and friendly work environment in Dublin, Aurélie came back to France and, in particular, to the sunny Côte d’Azur, for her greatest gustatory delight.

Aurélie currently lives in Antibes, not too far from the office and close to the sea at the same time!

She likes eating everything with a taste of chocolate.

She feels good when everything is in order, both in her job and on her desktop.

A big MacGyver fan in her early days, Céline initially wanted to become a policewoman to save lives and spread justice – but she soon realised she just wasn’t cut out for such a grueling job. Now working in the (albeit slight less altruistic but no less prestigious) role of translator, her family and friends take much comfort in her choice of a cushy office environment over street crime. Céline also loves travelling – no sooner is she home from a trip than she is already planning her next one!

Céline left her native Brittany to work in the South of France.

She doesn’t live too far from the office and enjoys going to work by foot on sunny mornings, while listening to music (that puts her in a good mood, ready to face a day of work!).

She likes skiing and going for walks in the mountain and by the sea.

Like any self-respecting Breton, Céline is fond of crêpes and salted butter, but don’t imagine that her diet is only made of these 2 specialities!

Christine graduated from the Ecole d’Interprètes Internationaux in Mons in 2009 and started working at Stoquart one month later. She finds it exciting to discover new subtleties of languages everyday and used to participate in spelling competitions. She is also interested in scientific matters, especially astrophysics and entomology. However, do not think she is an over-analytical person: she enjoys playing the guitar, singing (definitely a music fan) or simply having a walk to feel the fresh air upon her face.

Christine has been working as a translator (from English, Dutch and Spanish, into French) at Stoquart SA since 2000. What she most appreciates about her job is discovering new things everyday. She also likes cooking, gardening, doing sport (especially swimming), and much more, but with her two lovely little children, she doesn’t have much time for that. Hopefully, a run twice a week with a few colleagues, that ‘s great to recharge her batteries, and have a chat… and a lot of fun. She keeps cool, even under pressure, and has outstanding mediation capacities in conflict-prone situations. If she hadn’t been a translator, she would have been an excellent teacher: you notice it when she trains students coming here for some days or weeks.

Émilie graduated in translation from Université Lyon 3 in 2014.

As a child she moved around a great deal with her family, which is probably why she loves travelling a lot and meeting new people. A few years ago, she lived in Spain for her studies and after graduating she travelled Down Under for six month to work on organic farms and to discover Australian wildlife and landscapes. She came back to France to finally settle down.

She enjoys hiking in the mountains, but she’s not very sporty and usually prefers gentler activities such as drawing, reading or sewing.

Now a thirty-something and fresh mum of a lovely baby, Florence has a degree in advertising and a degree in translation, and can therefore boast various professional experiences… however she’s glad to have settled at Stoquart as a result!

She loves England and Germany, which she has visited several times to study and learn the language, but is also fond of Belgium and France – actually, she doesn’t find it necessary to travel far away to see interesting places and beautiful landscapes…

Françoise has a degree in translation in English and Dutch from the Belgian University of Mons-Hainaut. After one year experience commuting between Mons and Brussels, she applied for a translator job in Mons and finally joined the Stoquart (dream) team in August 2001. Françoise is the colleague everybody should have: she is hardworking, conscientious, willful, trustworthy, and last but not least, a great cook. She especially enjoys cooking ice creams, cupcakes and all types of treats (and eventually eating them).

She lives in a nice village near Mons. She also likes travelling, walking, biking, skiing and running with colleagues during lunchtime. She is also interested in photography in general and food photography in particular and would like to learn how to use photo editing software.

Gauthier has a degree in translation from Mons University (Ecole d’Interprètes Internationaux). He began his working life as a Dutch teacher before returning to his first love, namely translation. Musician in his spare time, this metal addict has now been working for Stoquart for the past 4 years where he mainly handles computing, medical and financial projects. At work, Gauthier is someone you can rely on, a great colleague :-) He likes spending his holidays with his family, hanging around with friends, the barbecue-pastis-petanque and DIY (even if he’s hopeless at this). As music flows through his veins you will hardly see him without his earphones (but with a volume always set to low so that his colleagues don’t have nightmares at night).

Ingrid lives in the nice city of Mons, where she obtained her degree in translation from the Ecole d’Interprètes Internationaux. At Stoquart, she’s “part of the furniture”, as she’s beeen working there since 1995! She translates mostly technical texts from English and German into French.

She enjoys gardening, cooking, reading, cinema, astronomy, being in contact with nature and travelling the (foreign) country with her man in their homemade motorhome during her holidays.

Magali graduated from EII in Mons, with English and Russian as her working languages. She then decided to try her hand at teaching for a few months, but soon realised it wasn’t her cup of tea, so she came back to Mons and to her true calling: translation.

Apart from overthinking the meaning of words, Magali loves to read, play video games and hike.

Mandy graduated as an English/Dutch to French translator from the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation (FTI-EII) at the University of Mons. She joined Stoquart and loves her job because she can deepen her knowledge in various fields. Mandy is a fan of the simplest joys of life like listening to her favorite song on the radio or eating a pizza with her best friend.

After graduating from the Ecole d’Interprètes Internationaux, where she specialized in literary translation, Marie started working at Stoquart SA, translating from English and German into French. Over the course of her career, she has specialized in medical and pharmaceutical translation.

She enjoys writing, reading, cinema, cooking, music, hanging out with friends, travelling (a lot) and generally scaring people.

Nathalie grew up in a farm in the beautiful region of Brittany in Western France, but quickly deviated from the family tradition by cultivating words instead of cereals. She started out as a translator in 2001 in the UK, before moving back to France in 2004.

She enjoys relaxing with friends and family. To kill time on her bus commute, she likes solving arrow-words, listening to music, daydreaming or napping.

Pol graduated from the University of Mons (FTI-EII) and started working at Stoquart shortly after. He is passionate about the world of translation as he considers this discipline as a great way to learn more about a lot of different sectors and subject matter.

Coming from France, Sandrine has lived in Belgium for more than 20 years and shares her life with a Belgian guy. They have two boys, 8 and 11 years old. She is fond of Belgium, not only for its famous chocolate, beers and French fries! She would like one day to travel around the world.

After graduating as a translator at ISIT in 2012, Sophie left her hometown near Paris to join the team of Stoquart France in Sophia Antipolis. It was not easy to leave her family, her friends and her cat behind, but she managed it, and is now living quite happily in her own little nest. In her free time, Sophie enjoys reading a good book and going for a walk by the sea. Raised in a family full of musicians, she also spends a lot of time listening to music, singing or playing the accordion.

Sophie graduated from the Ecole d’Interprètes Internationaux in Mons in 1992 as a as a translator from Dutch/English into French. She first worked as a Dutch teacher before joining Stoquart in 1994. She has no time to get bored with her four daughters, aged 16, 10 and twins of 12. Sophie enjoys reading, cooking, walking with her dog, running with colleagues during lunch time, swimming. Some months ago, she discovered the benefits of meditation and should practice it more and more.

Stéphanie is a busy – yet effective – mother of three. As the daughter of two English teachers, when she was a child she wanted to study anything but English (well, maybe not math either, when you think of it). She then spent a year in the United States, where her love for the English language developed.

Tania is the only native of the French Riviera working at Sophia Antipolis office. As the daughter of two teachers, she’s a real grammar and spelling nerd – though she admits it can be quite annoying for her family circle!
Tania likes hiking in the countryside just inland from Nice, cooking for her husband and friends, and trying various restaurants.

Thomas is a true born-and-bred Mons native – not only was he born here, but also completed his studies and currently lives in the very same city. Since earning his degree in translation, he has been working as a translator from German and English into French. He enjoys gardening, running, reading, writing, cooking and photography (especially close-up and macro photography) in natural areas (on the seaside or in the forest), and discovering cityscapes but only at certain times in the morning (when there is almost no noise nor movement at all).

Thomas graduated from the University of Mons (FTI-EII) and started working at Stoquart shortly after. He believes that being a translator is the perfect profession for people with wide-ranging intellectual curiosity.

Holder of diplomas in foreign languages and in translation ((English/Spanish) from the Universities of Limoges and Toulouse, Valérie left her native Limousin in year 2000 to set up house in the Chtis’ region and to cross the border everyday to work in Stoquart S.A. Sociable, she got accustomed to her new life and first job “abroad”.

Her team spirit of former great sportswoman is reflected in her work and her southern singsong accent brightens up our silent and studious atmosphere at the office. Besides, according to one colleague, if she hadn’t been a translator, she would have been an excellent “coach of the good mood”.