Keep track of the movers and shakers of the language industry and where they innovate next
Lionbridge founder Rory Cowan steps down as CEO, remains Chairman. Former Hire Right CEO and Thomson Reuters executive John Fennelly to take over as CEO. Cowan hints at accelerated M&A strategy as new private equity owners want to put their money to work. Continue reading
Argos Multilingual appoints a new VP for Global Sales, and The Language Group, a new Senior Vice President and General Manager; Welocalize hires new Directors for Business Development. Meanwhile, WordPower recruits a Localization Division Manager in Italy. Continue reading
Translation Laboratory has a new Managing Director, Commit Global Translations appoints a Chief Development Officer, and United Language Group and Paragon Language Services name new Business Development Managers Continue reading
Unbabel has a new VP of Engineering, Iconic hires a new Machine Translation Scientist, XTRF and Intonation name new Business Development Managers, and Literra appoints a new Sales Director. Continue reading
Antonio Tejada steps into GM role at Capita TI, says too early to fully assess impact of pulling back from Ministry of Justice contract; predicts translation productivity tools to cause alteration in price-per-word paradigm. Continue reading
AAC Global hires a Sales and Marketing expert, Summa Linguae appoints a Sales Manager and a Vendor Manager, LanguageWire hires a Marketing Manager, AdHoc Translations names a Marketing and Communication Manager, Stealth Translations hires a Business Development Manager, and ExperTrans Global appoints a Production Director. Continue reading
TranslateNow hires a Managing Director for China, MotionPoint appoints its EVP of Worldwide Sales, Dyade names its Director of Operations for Linguistic Services, and Blarlo hires a Director. Continue reading
After stepping down as Kilgray’s CEO in August 2016, István Lengyel joins Spanish boutique LSP On Global Language Marketing as Director for Customer Success. Lengyel remains a shareholder of Kilgray, the developer of translation productivity tool memoQ. Continue reading
Conversis has a new Account Director, Summa Linguae takes on a Consultant of Business Strategy for Growth and M&A, Xplanation appoints a Regional Manager for the UK and Ireland, and SwissGlobal names its Head of Quality Management. Continue reading
Unbabel and United Language Group hire new VPs, XTM International hires a Client Solutions Manager for America, Venga Global takes on board a new Vendor Manager, and PAB Translation Centre has a new Business Manager Continue reading
RWS recruits from within and appoints current CFO Richard Thompson to take reins from Reinhard Ottway, who will step down end of March 2017. RWS shares continue to climb, pushing market cap to within striking distance of USD 1bn mark. Continue reading
Summa Linguae names a new Vendor Manager, and Alpha, a new Program Manager. Clear Accent appoints two Regional Sales Managers, and SeproTec, two BDMs. Meanwhile, United Language Group continues to beef up key sales posts. Continue reading
From newly formed ULG to MotaWord, Cloudwords, thebigword, and RWS’s CTi unit, 2016 has seen its fair share of senior appointments in the language industry. Here is a roundup of last year’s most important new hires. Continue reading
BTI Studios has a new Apac Operations Director, GlobalLexicon names a new Associate Director, Cloudwords appoints a new Growth Strategy VP and a Chief Customer Advocate, and United Language Group beefs up Legal with a couple of new directors Continue reading
Amplexor recruits a couple of Alpha CRC veterans and United Language Group, a new Human Resources Director; SDL’s new Business Change Executive is reunited with his Xura colleague, the SDL CEO; and inWhatLanguage’s new VP works anew with the company CTO. Continue reading
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