Veteran-owned · Family-led

About BELS

Language expertise built through service, study, and a lifelong commitment to helping people understand one another.

Meet Our Team Call (614) 636-2905

Bond Enterprise Language Services leadership team discussing linguistic solutions in Ohio office.

2022

Founded

Downtown Columbus

Headquarters

300+

Languages & Dialects

20,000+

Global Linguists

The people accountable

Meet Our Team

BELS is led by people whose language, legal, healthcare, business, and military experience directly shapes how the company serves its clients.

Owner and CEO

Brando James Bond

Multi-lingual Expert

Spanish - Portuguese - Italian - French

My name is Brando J. Bond, Owner and CEO of BELS. I have studied languages since I was just 12 years old and have since become fluent in Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese.

I am a proud veteran of the Ohio Army National Guard where I served for 7 years as a combat medic, ending my service with the rank of sergeant. I also am a proud alumni of The Ohio State University where I earned my bachelor's degree in Romance Studies (Italian, Spanish and French) and my second bachelor's degree in International Studies: Security and Intelligence.

I have spent more than half of my life learning and working with multiple languages on a daily basis and have much experience traveling between Europe, South America and Central America to broaden my language and cultural understandings. If you are in need of any of our language services at BELS, I would be more than happy to personally assist you with this lifelong passion of mine!

Linda Bond, Bond Enterprise Language Services founder, standing with the Honduran flag. — Linda Esmeralda Bond

Co-Owner

Linda Esmeralda Bond

Spanish Language Expert

Spanish - English

My name is Linda E. Bond, Co-Owner and Spanish language expert of BELS. I grew up in Honduras and have been bilingual since childhood thanks to my father sending me to a private bilingual academy to learn English. I am a licensed attorney in my country and a practiced nurse. I have had the chance to help run several businesses alongside my father since I was a young child including owning and operating my family's hotel chain, excavation company, helping my older brother with his startup clinical laboratory managing real estate investments and more! I am honored to now have this opportunity with BELS to serve the local community with language services where it is needed most, combining all of my knowledge and experience for one great purpose; facilitating high quality communication and ensuring that every voice be heard and understood.

Company overview

About BELS

Bond Enterprise Language Services is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) providing professional translation, interpretation, localization, and certified document translation services nationwide. Headquartered in Columbus and founded in 2022, BELS connects businesses, healthcare providers, courts, government agencies, and individuals with qualified interpreters, translators, and cultural experts in 300+ languages.

With a global network of more than 20,000 professional interpreters and translators available locally and worldwide, BELS delivers fast, scalable language solutions for organizations of every size. Our services include in-person interpretation, on-demand over-the-phone interpretation (OPI), video remote interpreting (VRI), localization services, and certified document translations tailored to medical, legal, business, educational, and government environments.

Whether you need immediate on-demand language support for a patient, client, or customer, or ongoing multilingual communication solutions for your organization, our experienced language professionals are committed to ensuring every voice is heard and understood with accuracy, professionalism, and cultural sensitivity.

Serving clients throughout Ohio and across the United States, BELS provides reliable 24/7 language access solutions trusted by hospitals, law firms, courts, corporations, schools, and individuals seeking accurate and dependable multilingual communication support.

BELS Mission

Why we do the work

"Empowering Communication, Enriching Communities, Enhancing Security."

A value in practice

Loyalty

Loyalty: That all members remain true to the interpreting ethics and standards established by the NAJIT Code of Ethics for Court Interpreters and the IMIA Code of Ethics for Medical Interpreters.