Talia Zur Baruch is a highly experienced Product, Growth, and New Markets Strategy Executive, serving clients worldwide as an independent consultant. Her expertise stretches across industries, and she has decades of experience leading successful international expansion projects in Silicon Valley's tech sector. Before starting her consulting practice, Talia held senior positions at Google, LinkedIn, and SurveyMonkey, where she spearheaded internationalization, localization, new markets growth, and Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies. She has also lent her expertise to manage Starbuck's brand entry to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), OpenTable's international growth, and VMware's product fit in Latin America. Talia holds a Bachelor's degree in French and English Linguistic and Literature from Tel Aviv University, Israel. Additionally, she studied a Master's degree in Localization at Beit-Berl College and a Certificate program in Copyediting at UC San Diego. Talia is also a sought-after educator who teaches Product Innovation, Branding, Digital Marketing Strategy, and Leading Design Thinking at esteemed institutions like Hult International Business School, CEDIM's Graduate Design School in Mexico, and Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Besides, Talia co-founded GlobalSaké, a non-profit community of industry leaders whose goal is to promote cross-border and cross-culture knowledge sharing to drive holistic growth. She is also a regular speaker at various international conferences like LocWorld Berlin, Dublin, and SF; GetGlobal LA; TAUS in Dublin; Product Tank; SF Globalization; and i18n iMUG. Moreover, Talia has supported Google Accelerator's portfolio startups in emerging markets on entrepreneurship advisory, applied Machine Learning (ML) technologies, and innovation.