MasterWord Names Yvan Hennecart Vice President of Customer Engagement

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HOUSTON, TX – Aug 19, 2020 . . .  We are proud and excited to announce that Yvan Hennecart has joined Masterword as Vice President, Customer Engagement. Hennecart is an executive-level business leader with more than 25 years of experience working in solutions architecture for global content creation, management and distribution in Asia, South America and Europe. 

Founder and President Ludmila (Mila) Golovine describes his appointment as a strategic driver to consolidate recent growth and accelerate further expansion efforts; “Yvan is well known industry-wide for his excellent track record in creating value and revenue growth. We all welcome him to Masterword and Houston.” 

Hennecart’s specializations are Translation and Interpretation (T&I) Services and Language Technology. He is fluent in English, French, Dutch, German and Spanish. He earned a Master of Arts in Language and Interpretation from the Université libre de Bruxelles (formerly ISTI) and a Certificate in Spanish translation from the Association pour la Promotion de l’Etude des Langues Modernes in Brussels. Since 2015, he has been a lecturer on localization technologies and methodologies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. 

Yvan Hennecart Joins MasterWord

His background includes leadership roles in account management, strategic planning, execution and change management. As Vice President of Operations for the UK-based Content Services company SDL, Hennecart ran the fastest growing business unit. Most recently he led Content Operations for HOOQ TV, Asia’s premiere streaming content platform where he worked on a patent-pending, technology-driven process utilizing voice morphology and artificial intelligence to deliver dubbed content. SmartDub was awarded “Innovation of the Year” at LocWorld’s Process Innovation Challenge in 2019 in Silicon Valley, a leading conference for localization, translation, and global website management.

MasterWord Services, Inc., now in its 27th year, is ranked in the Top 20 largest language service providers in North America by the market research firm, Common Sense Advisory.  A top-quality provider of industry-specific language solutions, the company works with more than 300 clients in Fortune 500 companies. These include energy and engineering, healthcare, government, insurance and non-profit organizations with requirements in more than 250 languages and across four continents.  MasterWord’s strength lies in understanding its clients’ unique challenges and tailoring custom solutions for success.  The company delivers a broad spectrum of solutions and offers one of the industry’s quickest response times with 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-per-week availability.

Present technology combined with a proven level of sophistication in processes and methodologies support constant advancement in MasterWord’s mission to connect people across languages and cultures globally. MasterWord continually enhances customer experience through technology and the implementation of automated features in its client portal. Recently they introduced remote interpreting delivered through 16 popular video platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex and Zoom. This enables them to address vital needs for multilingual communication during the current COVID-19 crisis. 

Golovine affirms; “Our team is constantly pursuing high quality and more robust standards to keep pace with developments on an ever-evolving global stage. Yvan’s experience and skills will contribute significantly to our vision of a truly multilingual enterprise that will delight our clients.”