Daniel Italiaander

Daniel Italiaander

Head of Customer Success at Grain

Qualifications

Currently Head of Customer Success at Grain

Former COO and VP of Operations at BLEND Localization, leading large-scale localization delivery and quality operations

MBA and former Ernst & Young business consultant, with operations leadership at Payoneer, ICAP, and RSA Security

Expertise

Localization operations

Customer success

Operations management

Project management

Quality management

Team leadership

As a young psychology student I aimed to build a career 'working with people'. After many years in the technology industry I can conclude that this indeed became a reality. Today I use the insights from those days to motivate and inspire customer success teams. I built and scaled-up customer success teams across geographies supporting a growing global enterprise customer base. Experience as business consultant at E&Y and an MBA contributed to a strong business acumen. Having worked almost exclusively in tech, I also accumulated a tremendous amount of technical knowledge. But maybe most importantly, I am a hard worker that simply get things done.

Experience

Head of Customer Success at Grain

Oct 2025 — Present · 9 mos

Senior Director of Operations at Papaya Global

Apr 2025 to Jul 2025 · 3 mos

Oversaw core operational teams across payments, payroll, and in-country partnerships.

Chief Operations Officer at BLEND Localization

Sep 2023 to Mar 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

Led a 22-member team across project, talent, technical, and professional services to deliver large-scale localization projects profitably.

VP of Operations at BLEND Localization

Dec 2020 to Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Senior Director, Services & Operations at Payoneer

Jan 2019 to Dec 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Built a global client services team that supported Payoneer's journey from start-up to NASDAQ IPO.

Senior Director, Client Services at Payoneer

Jan 2018 to Jan 2019 · 1 yr

Qualifications

Currently Head of Customer Success at Grain

Former COO and VP of Operations at BLEND Localization, leading large-scale localization delivery and quality operations

MBA and former Ernst & Young business consultant, with operations leadership at Payoneer, ICAP, and RSA Security

Expertise

Localization operations

Customer success

Operations management

Project management

Quality management

Team leadership

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