Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, USA, I created and now run this site. Before ProZ.com, I worked for two years as a Japanese-to-English translator. Most of my experience prior to that is as an engineer. (I graduated from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering.)

Jared oversees member services at ProZ.com. An ex-language teacher, he has lived and worked in Argentina since 1996. He has been with ProZ.com through the La Plata office since 2007.

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 »

Massimo Ghislandi is Vice President Sales & Marketing, Translation Productivity at SDL Language Technologies. A native of Italy, he is a business administration graduate from Bocconi University, Milano, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (MCIM). With over ten years of business- to-... read more »

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Clove Lynch is director of product management at Lionbridge. He has been involved in localization technology management and implementation for 15 years, holding positions as translation tools manager at ILE, principal product manager at GlobalSight, chief product strategist at Translations.com, and ... read more »

Doug Lawrence is an approved ProZ.com trainer and the creator of “Selling Translations™” the world’s only sales training programme specifically designed for the professional translation. He has 15 years experience in the translation industry, having worked in sales positions for companies s... read more »

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Mats has run his own business for 28 years, 13 of them in Germany, having marketed Swedish products in 5 languages in Sweden, Germany and Europe for 30 years. Returning to Sweden in 1996, he started translating professionally (deu/eng/fra/esl>swe). Wife Sylvia soon joined on a part-time basis a... read more »