Bill Maslen is Managing Director of the Word Gym, a small craft firm based in Oxford that specializes in the translation and adaptation (transcreation) of advertising and marketing copy. Prior to founding the Word Gym in 1990, Bill worked first as a conference interpreter, then as a manager (in var... read more »

Michael Benis is a translator/interpreter and member of the Institute of Linguists and Institute of Translation and Interpreting in the UK. He has published widely on the integration of new technologies into the translation process. He is also a highly sought-after speaker at events organised by pro... read more »

Ros Schwartz is an award-winning literary translator, a leading light in the Translators’ Association of the Society of Authors and one of the UK’s foremost specialists in cross-cultural corporate communications. A freelancer since 1980, Ros Schwartz has translated some 50 works of fiction a... read more »

Cate read German and French at Oxford University, following which she was appointed staff translator at Mannesmann Kienzle. She went on to study for an M.A. in German from Dalhousie in Canada and, on her return to the UK in 1986, became a staff translator and graduate recruitment officer at RWS Tran... read more »

Dr J L Kettle-Williams holds qualifications in Spanish, French, German, Russian, Quechua and Guaraní. As a Hispanist, he has published and broadcast extensively and lectured widely. An experienced translator (incl. UNO) specialising in commercial and legal texts, trainer of translators, expert wi... read more »

Jost Zetzsche is an English-to-German technical translator, a translation technology consultant, and a widely published author on various aspects of translation. His computer guide for translators, A Translator's Tool Box for the 21st Century, is now in its eleventh edition; and his technical newsle... read more »

Nick Rosenthal is an experienced translation professional, the founder of Salford Translations Ltd and a former ITI Council member. More recently, Nick has been President of the UK Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. He has a keen interest in translation technologies, and in efficie... read more »

Katharine Allen is co-President of InterpretAmerica, an organization dedicated to raising the profile of the interpreting industry, which hosts the annual InterpretAmerica Summit. She also trains interpreters and interpreter trainers, and provides curriculum design and review for academic and licens... read more »

István is the CEO of Kilgray, and thinks that there is nothing more important than channeling the customers’ business challenges to development and coming up with innovative yet easy-to-use solutions. He loves to work with customers who can articulate what they are looking for and believes that t... read more »

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I was raised in a bilingual environment, and was introduced to computers at a very young age. I first got involved in translation when I started helping my father with the translation of repetitive hardware and software manuals. This, combined with my interest in programming, inevitably led to the c... read more »

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