Newsletter - Message from the board
Meet the 2007-2008 GALA Board
GALA welcomes new board member Kim Harris. The GALA Board is composed of five volunteer members who are elected by the GALA membership to serve for two-year terms.
Pictured L-R : Kim Harris, Stephen Ryan, Arancha Caballero, Matthias Caesar and Christiane Bernier
Stephen Ryan, Chair
Marketing Director
for Moravia Worldwide, Czech Republic
Stephen has
worked in the translation and localization industry since 1995 and has
held positions in project management, sales and marketing, and
operations management with 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). A frequent participant and speaker at industry events,
Stephen joined Moravia in January 2003 as Business Development Manager
and is currently Moravia's Marketing Director, based at Moravia's
Princeton, NJ location. Stephen is an avid football (soccer!) fan, and
he eagerly follows the international leagues and the MLS.
Kim Harris, Vice Chair
Co-owner and
Managing Director for text & form GmbH, Germany
Kim
studied French and German at the University of Toronto, Canada and moved
to Berlin, Germany 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. As
Managing Director of text & form, Kim has performed a number of
extracurricular duties within the translation and localization
community. She has published several articles and spoken at a number of
events on various topics including trends in the localization industry
and the future of SMEs in the industry, quality standards, and industry
metrics. When she's not working, Kim enjoys swimming, reading
short-listed Booker Prize novels, and researching new and exotic travel
destinations.
Christiane Bernier, Treasurer
Country
Manager, Lionbridge Technologies, Canada
Christiane
Bernier has worked in the localization industry for over 14 years and is
currently General Manager for Lionbridge's Canada operations. She has
previously held various Operations Management roles at Lionbridge,
International Communications, DLC and Prisma International, as well as
project management and French language lead roles at Creo International
and a short sales-focused position at Merrill Brink International. She
has worked at very small boutique-like firms, fast-growing start-ups and
larger, maturing public and private companies during periods of industry
consolidation, economic growth and market downturns. Christiane is a
native of Montreal, Canada and regularly travels to Spain to visit
family and friends. Languages are a part of her family life, too, as
her husband is a translator, and they are working to raise their
4-year-old daughter trilingual.
Matthias Caesar, Secretary
Managing
Director, Locatech GmbH
Matthias studied Mathematics
and Computer Science at University Dortmund and University College
Dublin and joined the localization industry in 1994. In those ten years
he has been acting as a tools and process trainer, project manager and
since 1999 Managing Director of Locatech GmbH in Germany. Additional
mandates include the position as a board member and General Manager of
LCJ EEIG, a group of four localization companies in Europe which,
according to Common Sense Advisory, ranks as the 12th largest LSP
world-wide. Locatech is a founding member of LCJ (founded in 1999). He
has also served as a board member of TILP (The Institute of Localisation
Professionals, Dublin) and as Deputy President and International Officer
of JCI Dortmund (Junior Chamber International) between 2000 and 2004.
Matthias likes spending his spare time traveling to nice hideaways with
his wife and working out at their local sports club.
Arancha Caballero, Board Member-at-Large
Co-founder
and COO of TSG (Servicios de Traducción GLOTAS), Spain
Arancha
Caballero is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of TSG. She is
responsible for the overall operations of TSG in both Europe and the
United States. Ms. Caballero received her Translation and Interpreting
Degree from the University of Granada and her MBA in Strategic
Management from the University of Madrid. She started her career as an
in-house Spanish translator for ITP (Bray, Ireland), one of the historic
names in the localization industry. She is recognized as an authority on
Spanish within the industry and is frequently asked to submit
presentations and articles on the topic of localization. As TSG
continues to grow in size and reach, Ms. Caballero is committed to
making sure that all TSG clients continue to receive the personal touch
that she is so proud TSG has been able to maintain. Arancha notes, “As a
Mediterranean, I like to enjoy good chats with friends and family over a
nice meal, but also enjoy traveling and meeting people from other
cultures, something that this industry easily allows!”