Kao, Fred
Fred Kao is the vice president of Magna China. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Kao was responsible for establishing the Magna Closures operations in China. This included the establishment of the China sourcing office and the China manufacturing operations. Since joining Magna in 1989, Mr. Kao has held several other positions within the company, including executive director, corporate marketing and commercial management, executive director, Honda account; assistant general manager; Magna seating manufacturing engineering manager; and product engineering manager. Mr. Kao’s current responsibilities include strategic oversight of Magna’s operations for the region. His prior experience in the automotive industry includes management responsibilities with General Motors from 1984 to 1989. With General Motors, Mr. Kao held positions in engineering, quality control and production. Mr. Kao has a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from York University.

Maripuri, Satish
Satish Maripuri is chief operating officer of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. Since joining in 2003, he has led the worldwide operations of Lionbridge. In his role, Mr. Maripuri is accountable for setting corporate strategy and achieving profitable growth in each of the company’s 25 country operations including six delivery centers in India, China and Eastern Europe. Mr. Maripuri has 20 years of experience in building and growing successful software and services organizations. Prior to joining Lionbridge, he held global leadership positions with Imprivata and eXcelon Corporation, formerly Object Design.

Yu, Frank
Frank Yu is president and chief operating officer of Augmentum. He has nearly 20 years of experience as an executive and technologist delivering commercial software and services. Throughout his career, Mr. Yu has led initiatives to develop significant software products and solutions in India and China, both as company ventures and in partnership with outsourcing vendors. Mr. Yu was most recently senior vice president of product development and delivery at Vitria Technology, heading up engineering, professional services, customer support, training and IT. Mr. Yu served as vice president of engineering and vice president/general manager of the Analytical Solutions Business Unit at Walker Interactive Systems, as director of engineering and chief architect at Cadence Design Systems and as manager of Logic Simulation Products at Dazix (formerly Daisy Systems). Mr. Yu began his career as a co-founder of The CAD Group.

Hsu, Jacob
Jacob Hsu is the president of Symbio. Mr. Hsu joined Symbio in 1998 and previously headed the company's China, US and Japanese operations, as well as held executive positions across all major corporate functions of business development, marketing, operations and project delivery through his nine-year career at Symbio. Mr. Hsu has also served as the managing director at Thunderchief Software, a Symbio Group company specializing in software product development, and at Symbio Digital Entertainment, a Symbio Group company focused on game outsourcing and development. Prior to joining Symbio, Mr. Hsu was the CEO of Trilogica Technologies, a pioneer in the area of data aggregation and web integration software. Before that, he was an investment banker specializing in mergers and acquisitions at the specialist firm Fox-Pitt, Kelton (FPK). He has also previously worked in a number of investment banking firms before joining FPK. Mr. Hsu is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business.

Beninatto, Renato
Renato Beninatto is a partner at Common Sense Advisory, Inc., an independent research and consulting firm specializing in localization and globalization. A corporate strategist and international business consultant, Mr. Beninatto has more than twenty years of executive-level experience in the localization industry and has served most recently as vice president and director of ALPNET Inc. and Berlitz GlobalNET respectively. He was a founding member of SINTRA, the Brazilian Translator's Association, and currently serves in the Localization Advisory Board of the Austin Community College.

DePalma, Don
Don DePalma is founder and chief research officer of Common Sense Advisory, Inc., an independent research and consulting firm specializing in the online and offline operations driving business globalization, internationalization, translation and localization. He lectures, writes and is frequently quoted on the topics of online marketing, content management, multicultural marketing, localization, return on investment, and website globalization. His book, Business Without Borders: A Strategic Guide to Global Marketing, is widely used in universities and in business training courses. Since 2002, he has led Common Sense Advisory's research into the best practices, technology and professional services that support business globalization. He holds graduate degrees from Brown University and the State University of New York and has also studied at Charles University (Prague), Moscow State University and the Moscow Linguistic University.

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Andriesen, Simon
Simon Andriesen is managing director of The Netherlands-based MediLingua, specializing in the localization of medical technology, biomedical, pharmaceutical, clinical trial and health-related information. He also manages Leesbaarheidstest.nl, which is a company specializing in readability testing of patient information, and coordinates and teaches a series of courses on medical and pharmaceutical translation. He has been part of the localization community since 1980 and was a founding member of INK, one of the first localization firms in Europe. Simon is a member of the advisory board of the Medical Round Table of the Localization World conference.

Bergeron, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Bergeron is director of linguistics and supplier development for OmniLingua Inc. She has over 25 years of experience in communications and documentation, including publishing management and language training, and holds an MA in linguistics from the University of Colorado/Boulder. Liz joined OmniLingua in 1998 and in her present capacity is responsible for the management and development of external resources internationally as well as defining and implementing corporate and client-specific quality plans related to supplier deliverables. Liz has actively participated in the SAE J2450 Task Force since 2000 and was elected chair of the committee in January 2006.

Bly, Micah
Micah Bly has been working in the localization industry since 1995 as a translator, localization consultant, project manager and software architect. Since joining Medtronic in 2004, he has been responsible for translation technology, quality procedures and vendor management at the Global Translation Solutions group, which handles regulatory, technical and other documentation for the Japanese market. He is a firm believer in the use of open standards in the translation industry, and their benefits for consumers of translation.

Bolen, Kevin
As chief marketing officer, Kevin Bolen leads Lionbridge’s global marketing and is responsible for setting market direction, solutions management, competitive positioning and brand promotion. Kevin joined Lionbridge in 2005 through the acquisition of Bowne Global Solutions where he had served as the vice president of marketing since joining in early 2002. Prior to Bowne, Kevin led the marketing function at LexiQuest, Inc., and before that he spent six years with IBM Global Services, where he held a variety of roles spanning consulting, corporate development, and marketing. Kevin holds a BBA in international business from Pace University and an MBA in marketing and management from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Caesar, Matthias
Matthias Caesar studied mathematics and computer science at University Dortmund and University College Dublin and joined the localization industry in 1994. Since then, he has been a tools and process trainer, project manager and, since 1999, managing director of Locatech GmbH in Germany. He serves on the board of the Globalization and Localization Association as secretary. He is also a board member and general manager of LCJ EEIG, a group of four European localization companies co-founded by Locatech in 1999. Matthias has served as a board member of The Institute of Localisation Professionals and as the deputy president and international officer of the Junior Chamber International of Dortmund from 2000 to 2004.  

Carter, Daniel
After earning his undergraduate degree in computer science, Daniel Carter worked as a software developer, QA testing manager and localization group manager. Daniel helped establish and support Microsoft’s European Offices in the United Kingdom, Benelux and Scandinavia in the mid-1980s. He studied for his MBA at the University of Washington in Seattle. Daniel founded a software localization company, International Software Products (iSP), in 1989 and was CEO until 2001. Since 2001, he has been active in the formation of a number of new companies, most recently MedCom (Medical Communication International). He is currently an industry advisor and consultant, often involved in facilitating mergers between translation and localization companies. Daniel was one of the founding board members of the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) and serves on the advisory board for the California State University Localization Certification Program. In 1992, as part of the Macintosh Inside Out series, he published one of the first books on localization — Writing Localizable Software for the Apple Macintosh.

Cho, Sung
Sung Cho is vice president of the Asia and Pacific region for Jonckers T&E. Before joining Jonckers T&E, Sung had more than 15 years of engineering and business management experience, both in software development and internationalization/localization for Symantec, Microsoft, Network Commerce, Rivio, and most recently as the country manager of Bowne Global Solutions in Korea. Within the last decade, Sung lived in a number of different countries in America, Europe and Asia, while working for large multinational corporations as well as on start-up environments. He holds a bachelors degree in computer science and pure mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Canada and earned EMBA from the Sogang University in Korea.

Fritz, Michael
Michael Fritz has been managing director of tekom, the German society of technical communicators, since 1997. He is a graduate in business management with a specialization in marketing and holds an MBA. Michael was director of a lifelong-learning institute and worked for several nonprofit organizations before joining tekom. Since 2001, he has also been managing director of TC and more GmbH, the service company that is responsible for all of tekom's commercial activities.

Ghislandi, Massimo
Massimo Ghislandi is marketing initiatives manager for SDL TRADOS Technologies. A native of Italy, Massimo is a business administration graduate of Bocconi University, Milano and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. With over nine years of business-to-business marketing experience, Massimo held positions within product marketing management and marketing communications departments at various international corporations, including Avery Dennison and ITT Industries. He is now managing the world-wide marketing activities for SDL TRADOS Technologies and his area of expertise is terminology management software tools.

Goldschmidt, Daniel
Daniel Goldschmidt is a software engineer on the Google Internationalization Team. For more than 15 years, Daniel has been engaged in software development. As a professional in the globalization of software and content field, he has extensive experience in the internationalization and localization of large-scale enterprise applications and projects. Prior to joining Google, Daniel worked as a freelance internationalization and localization consultant. Daniel holds a BS in computer sciences and mathematics and a MS in computer sciences, both from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Grebisz, Chris
As the COO at Welocalize, Chris Grebisz is reponsible for ensuring that the company's global operations remain competitive in its offering and execution and valuable to its customers. This involves developing highly-integrated solutions that leverage the resourcing strengths in China and the West. Chris has over 15 years of experience in professional services, 10 of which have been focussed on leading localization companies through market transformations.

Harris, Kim
Kim Harris is co-owner and managing director of text & form GmbH, a language solutions company in Berlin, Germany. Kim studied French and German at the University of Toronto and moved to Berlin in 1986 to complete her language studies. Prior to co-founding text & form GmbH in 1996, Kim worked as a freelance technical and localization translator and co-managed the English translation department of a large German translation company. Kim has published several articles and spoken at a number of events on various topics, including trends in the localization industry, the future of SMEs, quality standards and industry metrics.

Hattery-Beyer, Lynn
Lynn Hattery-Beyer is a corporate solutions manager for OmniLingua primarily serving the life sciences industry. She has been in the localization industry for more than 25 years. While working as a translator (German - English) and trainer/consultant of International Business English in Germany and the United Kingdom, Lynn gained valuable experience in the automotive, medical and publishing industries. Since joining OmniLingua Inc. in 1998, she has also worked as a business development manager in multiple industries.

Henes, Ulrich
Ulrich Henes is the president of The Localization Institute which he founded in the fall of 1996 because he saw a serious lack of quality training and learning opportunities in this important area. He has been involved with localization, first as an international sales and marketing manager (also serving as a localization manager) for a US software company and then as president of the American office of a British localization agency. He is a coorganizer of the Localization World conferences.

Herrmann, Achim
Achim Herrmann is managing director and one of the founders of PASS Engineering GmbH in Bonn, Germany. Achim has a degree in electronic engineering and has over 22 years’ experience with software development and engineering. After working for companies in the areas of telecommunication and measuring instruments for several years, he founded PASS Engineering GmbH with two other engineers and software developers in 1990.

Huang, Henry
Henry Huang is the founder and business manager of SynerGlobal Solutions China. He has been involved in the localization industry for 10 years, starting from localizing the multimedia encyclopedia of Dorling Kindersley in 1996, and then joined Bowne Global Solutions (BGS) China in early 1998. As a PM group manager and IT manager of formerly BGS, Henry was invited as the developing consultant for TRADOS China. He was also a member of CAT in BGS, providing worldwide support for the production team. During his time at BGS, Henry co-designed an advanced localization production tracking system which helps localization projects to operate smoothly.

Humbert, Sen
Having worked in the localization industry for 10 years, Sen Humbert is Hewlett-Packard (HP) ACG China’s operation manager. She previously worked in HP France and HP US. Sen received her masters degree in computer science and an MBA degree in France. She is now leading the HP ACG team expansion in China to deliver localization engineering, testing and project management services for HP’s localization projects into more than 30 languages.

Husbands, Gordon
Gordon Husbands has more than 24 years' experience in successful international sales, consulting and business management, dealing with large global companies within the information technology, telecoms and service industries. He has worked for British Aerospace, Thorn EMI, GEC and Digital Equipment. Gordon has been involved in the communications localization business since 1995; has had several papers published on communicating in a global and multicultural environment; and is a frequent panel member at international marketing and localization conferences. He is presently a board member and vice president of sales and marketing at marketing communications localization specialist Wordbank.

Ito, Aki
Active in the technical communication and localization industry, Aki Ito has been featured as a speaker at several international conferences, most recently tcworld Conference in Wiesbaden, Germany. He has been in the localization industry for 10 years, and he has served as the chairman of the board for the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA). Prior to the localization industry, Aki was an account executive at Dell Computer Corporation, liaising between the US headquarters and its Japanese subsidiary. He holds a masters degree in international marketing and business administration from Texas A&M University and a BA in international relations from Tokyo International University in Tokyo, Japan.

Kawahara, Masaru
Masaru Kawahara has been a software engineer since 1982. Masaru's projects include XML-based documentation localization and Java-based UI localization with translation memory tools. Prior to working with TOIN, Masaru served as senior manager of one of Bowne Global Solution's project management groups. He was involved with software development as senior consultant for DEC Japan. He also was a senior systems engineer on the first machine translation system in Japan.

Kyriakidou, Argyro
Argyro Kyriakidou is marketing programs manager for SDL Trados Technologies. Argyro is a Greek citizen and holds an MBA from the University of Surrey, School of Management. Argyro has business-to-consumer and business-to-business marketing experience and has held marketing communications and marketing product management positions at various international corporations, including Future Electronics and Wendy’s Hamburger’s Inc. She manages worldwide marketing activities for SDL Trados Technologies and in 2006 launched the SDL TRADOS Certification program.

Kidd, Michael
Michael Kidd is executive vice president for ProZ.com. He has 16 years' experience driving growth performance for successful entrepreneurial ventures and large enterprises. With specific expertise in delivering online technology solutions, leading global software sales and marketing teams and building brands for market leaders, Michael served in senior leadership roles at TRADOS, Inc., and BellSouth Wireless (now Cingular Wireless). Michael is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Lee, SuJeong
Sujeong Lee is founder and CEO of E4NET, a localization provider based in Korea. SuJeong is a 20-year veteran in the software engineering and localization industries and has worked in the last decade to evolve and automate the traditional localization system. For her outstanding service and invaluable contributions to the software industry, Sujeong has been awarded the National E-Business Award by the government of South Korea. Sujeong has a masters degree in computer science.

Li, Shi
Shi Li is the vice president of HiSoft Service (Beijing) Limited. A native of Beijing, China, Shi has spent 12 years of his career in the localization industry. Shi co-founded the first professional localization service provider in China, Beijing InfoTech Media in 1995. Since then, he has experienced the entire evolution of the localization industry. Shi relocated to Shanghai at the beginning of 2006 to expand HiSoft's localization services in one of the fast-growing outsourcing centers in China. He holds a masters degree in computer science.

Li, Tao
Tao Li joined Schaeffler (China) in 2004. In his role as the manager of the Application Engineering Department, Tao is responsible for the organization and management of the localization process, with particular focus on the translation of catalogues and other technical information documents. The Schaeffler Group with its brands INA, LuK and FAG develops and manufactures precision products for anything that moves: in machinery, industrial plant, vehicles and aerospace. Tao brings years of experience from the Harbin Institute of Technology and the Dalian Institute of Technology.

Liu, Joyce
Joyce Liu is the account manager for Welocalize's China branch, a service unit specializing in Asian languages based in Beijing. Joyce holds a degree in computer science. Her nine-year language industry experience covers production process, project management and marketing. She has participated in the entire ISO 9000 certification process and all BSC/PCMM implementation activities.

Meyer, Dirk
Dirk Meyer is a senior program manager at Adobe Systems. Initially a member of Adobe's Type Department, Dirk performed work and research on CJKV fonts and Asian encoding standards and was among the first to describe and analyze the Chinese standard GB 18030-2000. Working across time zones and bridging cultures, Dirk then contributed to a successful integration of shared technologies into the Adobe Creative Suites. Currently supporting the move of Adobe help and learning resources to the web, he is confident that the challenges of applying and localizing "Web 2.0" technologies will keep him busy for a while. Dirk studied at Beijing University from 1985-87 and has been a frequent visitor to China since then. He holds a masters degree in Chinese studies from Tübingen University, Germany.

Mo, Peiying
Peiying Mo has been in the localization industry for more than ten years. While at Palm as a localization services project manager, Peiying works closely with translation vendors as well as Palm international marketing, engineering, user assistance, legal, and operations departments to bring to market consumer and enterprise smartphones, PDAs and their accessories.

Parrish, Donna
Donna Parrish is coorganizer of the Localization World conferences and publisher of MultiLingual. Prior to her work at MultiLingual Computing, Inc., she was a computer programmer for 25 years. Donna holds a degree in mathematics from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University.

Pellet, André
Andre Pellet joined Welocalize in 2006 through the merger with M2 Enterprises where he was president of the 28 year-old firm. As a University of Maryland engineering graduate with a specialty in computer science and as an industry veteran, Andre brings over 20 years of business experience and leadership to the Welocalize executive management team. He currently works with key strategic accounts and teams on the development of new services and offerings.

Quintero, Arturo
Arturo Quintero, co-owner and chief corporate strategist at Moravia Worldwide, is based in the company's corporate headquarters in the Czech Republic and spends extensive periods of time in other Moravia Worldwide locations in North America, Europe and Asia. Currently, Arturo is a member of the board of directors of The Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP) and helps other nonprofit associations in an advisory role.

Riley, Kimberly
Kimberly Riley is principal engineer/manager of product labeling and translations for the Endosurgery Business Unit at Boston Scientific Corporation in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Kim has spent the majority of her career in global packaging and product labeling with a focus on international regulatory and quality requirements. With a background in engineering and quality, she has focused on establishing processes for localization of product information and labeling. Kim’s 27 years of hands-on experience include over 15 years in the medical-device industry, as well as consumer products and the health and beauty industries. She earned a Ph.D. in international business administration in May 2006.

Ryan, Stephen
Stephen Ryan has worked in the translation and localization industry since 1995 and has held positions in project management, sales and marketing working for International Translation and Publishing (ITP) Ltd., ALPNET Inc. and SDL International. He has an engineering degree from Virginia Tech and an MBA from University College Dublin (Ireland). Stephen joined Moravia in January 2003 as business development manager and is currently Moravia’s marketing director.

Sank, Michael
Michael Sank has spent the past decade in a variety of roles for TransPerfect and Translations.com, including sales, operations, and, most recently, managing partnerships, mergers and acquisitions. In his former role as vice president of international operations, Michael lived in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Hong Kong, and he has since lived in Thailand, as well. He relocated back to the United States in 2005 and currently holds the title of vice president of corporate strategy for TransPerfect/Translations.com.

Schils, Clio
Clio Schils is manager of linguistics and publishing in the Technical Literature Translation Services Group of Medtronic in The Netherlands, responsible for the quality of the translation and localization of medical, technical and marketing documentation for the Europe, Middle East and Africa market. Parallel to her ongoing responsibilities at Medtronic, she also joined the Localization World conference organizing team as the coordinator of the preconference Medical Localization Round Table sessions. Starting as a translator after her studies in Brussels, Clio gained 20 years of experience in the translation field and joined Medtronic in May 2000. Before joining Medtronic, she worked as a Greek translator for the IMPs (Integrated Mediterranean Programs) of the European Union in Athens and spent four years in California, working as a freelance translation project manager. Clio holds a masters degree in interpretation in Greek/German/Dutch.

Silberstein, Eric
Eric Silberstein founded Idiom in 1998 and is the company's visionary, focusing on globalization practices and product direction. He takes personal responsibility for customer relations and for maintaining a company culture that is committed to customer success and team enrichment. While completing his BA in computer science at Harvard University, Eric served on the founding team of Chipshot.com as vice president of technology. During summer positions at Microsoft, first in the Redmond office and then in their Beijing office, he worked on the localization of Microsoft Word. Eric has founded and directed several volunteer youth programs, travels extensively in Europe and Asia, and speaks Chinese and Russian.

Stoeller, Willem
Current vice president at Welocalize, Willem Stoeller has been involved full-time in software localization since 1992. He has been directly or indirectly involved in project management his entire career. Willem’s project management "boot camp" consisted of 10 years of IT projects through Andersen Consulting followed by senior software development management positions with several US software publishers. He is a certified project management professional and completed GB18030 certifications for Welocalize clients in 2004 and 2005.

Sun, Maosong
Maosong Sun is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. His research interests include computational linguistics, statistical and corpus-based natural language processing, for example, SMT, Chinese computing (morphology, syntax and semantics), terminology, and information retrieval. He has published more than 120 papers in academic journals and international conferences. Maosong is currently the vice president of the Chinese Information Processing Society (CIPS), chairman of Technical Society of Computational Linguistics of CIPS, director of the Computer Terminology Standardization Committee of China Computer Federation, member of the Council of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, and member of the National Commission for Terminology Standardization of China. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chinese Information Processing, an academic journal in the area of natural language processing in China.

van der Meer, Jaap
Jaap van der Meer is a member of the Localization World management team. A co-founder and director of the Translation Automation User Society (TAUS), he is also co-founder and partner of Cross Language. Jaap started his first translation company in The Netherlands in 1980, and in 1987 he published the first desktop translation memory software. Jaap co-founded the SAE TopTec Multilingual Communications Conference for the automotive industry and was president and CEO of ALPNET.

Vashee, Kirti
As vice president of sales and marketing, Kirti Vashee brings more than 25 years' experience in successful enterprise software marketing to Language Weaver. His background includes small entrepreneurial as well as larger technology companies such as EMC, Dow Jones and Legato. He has extensive worldwide partner channel building experience and is responsible for overall sales and marketing strategy for Language Weaver. Kirti conducted his undergraduate work in economics and finance at Bombay University, India, and received his MBA from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.

Wang, Ben
Ben Wang is president and CEO of Beyondsoft Group, an end-to-end software engineering provider in China. Beyondsoft provides professional services covering the entire software R&D process, including development, testing and localization. Ben has over 12 years of experience in the IT industry and has led Beyondsoft since its inception in 1995. He holds a degree from the Computer Science and Engineering Institute, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a masters degree in business administration.

Wei, James
James Wei has been in the localization industry for more than 10 years. He started his career as an electronic engineer working in CALVT (China Academy of Lunch Vehicle Technology), and, after three years of working with science and research, he began to involve himself in business management. After several successful management positions in the IT sector, he founded his own company, E-C Translation Ltd., to meet the increasing market requirement in China in early 1997. James is one of the pioneers in the China localization industry and wants to share his knowledge on the China market with the localization community.

Wong, Anthony
Anthony Wong is a senior consultant for Beijing, China Centre for Information Industry Development (CCID) TransTech (China) and managing director and co-founder, E-C Consulting (Singapore). From late 1987 to 1996, he worked as a computer systems designer/architect specializing in product research and development, large database system applications and software re-engineering. Anthony has worked for companies such as NCR, Nixdorf Computer, Siemens and Software AG in the United Kingdom, Germany and Singapore. He was the co-founder and general manager of the Asian Language Support Centre, which specialized in software re-engineering, internationalization and Asian language localization. He then served as the regional managing director at LMI (Asia Pacific), later known as Berlitz GlobalNET. He graduated in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s with a BSc (Joint Hons) in computer science and statistics.

Yeng, Shirley
Shirley Yeng has been in the localization industry for more than 13 years. She started her career as an internationalization software engineer working in multinational corporations such as Omron and Software AG. Then after five years of working with machine-interface, she decided to focus on listening to the needs of customers and partners and providing the best-fit localization solutions to them. This has helped her to take on different roles at different phases of her localization career which includes project management, vendor management, account management, sales and marketing and now as a senior partner of E-C Translation Group.