Mara Campbell was born into an English-speaking family in Buenos Aires and was educated in the best bilingual schools. She attended college, earning an Advertising degree in 1996.

She worked in a purple courier company, in theatrical film distribution, and in consumer products licensing for Bugs and friends, before landing a job at one of the biggest dubbing studios in Buenos Aires, where she translated and adapted scripts for dubbing, subtitled, QCed other people’s work, and trained a whole team of closed captioners.

In 2004, a Burbank-based big post production company set up a branch in Buenos Aires, and she was selected to be team leader of the graveyard shift. They trained her extensively in subtitling, closed captioning, and SDH, as well as in English proofreading, making her honorary Captain of the Grammar Police and lover of the Oxford comma.

A year and a half later, she founded True Subtitles, because she wanted to be the master of her own destiny. She is currently in charge of recruitment and training, creation of style guides, and daily operations, is the technical “understander” of things, and oversees project management.

She is an international speaker in subjects related to Neutral Spanish, audiovisual translation, operation of subtitling/captioning software, and teaches special courses on these topics because she believes in leaving a mark in this world. She is in the process of writing a book on Latin American Neutral Spanish, and subtitling and captioning style guides.

Mara has been married to the same guy for almost a decade, and has one daughter and two cats with him. She enjoys sewing, quilting, crocheting, but, mostly, binge-watching TV shows and movies. She manages to make time in her busy schedule to have impeccable and colorful manicures all the time.

Analía Pastorino was born in Buenos Aires.

She earned a degree in Business Administration in 1999, an MA in Capital Markets by UCEMA in 2006, and an MA in Business Management by UTDT in 2007.

Before joining True Subtitles, she worked for almost 18 years in one of Argentina’s most important private banks, starting in the Marketing department and making her way up to the Capital Markets department in a role as an associate for Debt Capital Markets and Investment Banking.

She managed to successfully combine her love for finances and movies with her entrepreneurial inclinations when she partnered with Mara Campbell with the aim of transforming the work of a single freelancer into a proper company with clients and suppliers all around the world.

She is currently the Chief Financial Officer of the company and handles the commercial strategy.