Team

The people behind Verbato.

Our headquarters are in London, and our production team works from Istanbul. This gives us London-level client management with direct access to a deep pool of linguists across the region.

Cenk Yalavac

Cenk Yalavac

Founder & CEO

Cenk founded the company with 19 years of localisation industry experience. He leads strategy and business development, with a particular focus on e-commerce clients expanding into emerging markets.

Selen

Selen

Vendor Manager

Selen manages our network of native-speaking editors and linguists across all target markets. She handles recruitment, quality tracking and project-linguist matching.

Gökçen Doğa

Gökçen Doğa

Project Manager

Doğa is the primary point of contact for our e-commerce clients. She coordinates workflows between the AI pipeline, editorial team and client stakeholders to keep projects on track.

Önder

Önder

Senior Project Manager

Önder handles the most complex multi-language projects, often involving 10+ target languages simultaneously. He is known for his attention to detail and clear client communication.

Ezgi

Ezgi

Project Coordinator

Ezgi supports quality assurance and client delivery across localisation projects, bringing attention to detail and fresh energy to the team.

Ceyda

Ceyda

Jr. Project Coordinator

Ceyda supports project coordination and delivery across our client accounts, keeping schedules, files and communication running smoothly.

700+

Vetted native linguists

Our linguist network

Beyond the core team, we work with a vetted network of 700+ native-speaking translators, editors and subject matter experts. Each linguist has a minimum of 10 years of professional experience and lives in their target market. Your German content is reviewed by someone in Germany, your Arabic copy by someone in the relevant Arabic-speaking country, and so on.