Management Team
CSOFT’s culture defines how we work. We believe leadership means embodying a culture of doing better, going farther, and caring more for CSOFT’s success and to support the greater success of our colleagues and clients.

Shunee Yee
Founder & CEO
Shunee Yee is the President and CEO of CSOFT International, a leading global communications and localization company. Responsible for its organic growth from a start-up in a two bedroom apartment to an industry leader, Yee oversees CSOFT’s operations across 14 offices and 3 continents.
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Yee is a recipient of the international Stevie Award for Best Asian Entrepreneur for Women in Business, a Top 25 Globalization Executive by Globalization Today, a Fortune Most Powerful Women, and was identified by CNN Money as one of technology’s 36 most powerful disrupters.
In June 2016, Yee led CSOFT into a partnership with the Shenzhen Municipal Government and launched the Shenzhen 100 research report which utilizes hard data and qualitative indicators to create a 9 dimension CGMI (China Global Maturity Index), and assists the government in implementing effective policies to support global market strategies.
Yee is also a standing Committee Member of a leading Think Tank, the China Center for Globalization (CCG), which is dedicated to the globalization of China’s enterprises and talent. Yee holds a Master’s degree from Rhode Island College and has completed a senior executive program at Harvard Business School. She has been recognized for her many contributions in the sphere of education in China and around the world at Guangdong University, the John Hopkins-Nanjing Center, the Asian University for Women, and the Let Girls Learn initiative.
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Carl Yao
Executive VP, Strategic Development
GM, STEPES.com
Bringing more than 15 years of experience to his role at CSOFT, Carl Yao is responsible for the strategic planning and business development of CSOFT’s services, products, and technologies across North America, Asia, and Europe.
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Prior to CSOFT, Carl was the principal architect for the development of the world’s first multilingual speech engine that used natural human voice to synthesize speech at the company he founded, YAOS Technologies. He also served as the CTO for Animation Technologies, based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Carl has a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Computer Science from Whitman College in Washington State and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Brown University.
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Philippe Cao
Vice President
Global Business Development
Hailing from Paris, Philippe Cao has a wealth of experience in localization and in helping Chinese companies communicate effectively in foreign markets.
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Paul Canton
Vice President
Data Security & Information Management
Living in Canada, Paul Canton is the VP of Data Security & Information Management for CSOFT International. Paul is responsible for working directly with IT, Management and Sales to support business development and client services.
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Michael Gray
Business Development Director
West Coast US
Michael majored in Portuguese and International Business and has almost 10 years of specific localization industry experience. As a bilingual, localization has been a life pursuit and brings an understanding of how critical your global and international efforts are.
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Joshua Hughman
Business Development Director
Europe
Originally from the UK, Joshua Hughman has over 8 years of work experience in China, where he has developed a deep knowledge and love of the local business culture and learned how to successfully integrate Western and Chinese teams.
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Emily Zhu
Chief Corporate Controller
Emily brings 15+ years of experience in auditing, finance, and administration. Prior to joining CSOFT, she held the finance director position at a China publicly-listed company and was the regional head of Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (AEI), headquartered in Denver, USA.
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Sherry Wu
Vice President
Operations Quality Management
Sherry Wu is responsible for supervising globalization deliveries, focused primarily on coordinating production resources to ensure quality deliverables to CSOFT clients in both a time and cost-efficient manner.
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Diego Di Leva
Vice President
Global Language Resources
Originally from Italy, Diego Di Leva is the VP of Global Language Resources. In this role, Diego leads teams responsible for executing end-to-end project management and supply chain strategy.
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Aaron Liu
General Manager, Shenzhen,
Senior Director, Localization Operations
Aaron launched his career as a Project Manager in 2006, and spent over 13 years in service delivery management in the globalization and localization industry. Acting as the role of operations, he has managed both centralized…
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Lucy Qiu
Senior Director
Strategic Account Development
Lucy worked in the Localization industry right after her graduation from Beijing Foreign Studies University. With about 15 years of experience in almost every link of the business, she has built comprehensive knowledge of the industry which includes but not limited to its development, sales & key account management, and all sides of localization operation.
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Di Lv
Principal Lead For Life Science Practice,
Acting Managing Director, CSOFT Health Sciences
Has worked in the international healthcare market for the past 8 years. With a deep understanding of China’s healthcare and regulations, Di received her first law degree in China and then pursued further studies in the UK obtaining a second law degree with a focus in human rights.
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