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Name Plate Changes for Offices on Executive Row
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This update includes some movement that we expected within a year of the Lionbridge's acquisition of Bowne Global. Some of the changes involve people who have been in the language services and software business so long that their industry credentials are written in Roman numerals.
- Brian Kelly retired as Chief Operating Officer of Lionbridge Europe after more than 20 years in the localization industry. He joined Lionbridge after it acquired Bowne Global last June.
- Peter Reynolds left Lionbridge to join Idiom as director of its LSP Advantage program. Reynolds is the secretary of OASIS' XLIFF Technical Committee and chair of the Translation Web Services Technical Committee. He came to Lionbridge with the Bowne Global acquisition.
- Ben Sargent, Lionbridge's director of marketing communications, joined Common Sense Advisory as a senior analyst. Previously Sargent held positions at MT tool maker Transclick, LSP International Communications, and web development agency iXL.
- Localization specialist Denise Spacinsky, the Globalization Strategist at Hewlett Packard's All-in-One division, joined Larsen Globalization, a language industry recruiter.
- Ben Martin left Industrial Wisdom (see "Too Many Words Threaten to Strangle Business"), a consultancy focusing on content optimization, for a job as Senior Director of Content Management and Strategy at manufacturing-focused ERP vendor QAD. Martin earned his content stripes with a multilingual, single-source CMS implementation at the late, lamented J.D. Edwards (now Oracle via PeopleSoft).
- Language service provider Sajan hired Vern Hanzlik, former CEO of CMS developer Stellent, as VP of Business Development. Hanzlik will will lead Sajan's product commercialization efforts with an emphasis on its authoring tool.
- IBM's Bill Sullivan, head of its
global software business unit, was reportedly promoted to group director.
- Dominique Trouche joined French language service provider WHP as its managing director. Trouche brings more than 20 years of service in global enterprises and worldwide logistics to WHP, prompting him to tell us that "I have been involved in localization for 20 years without knowing it."
As always, we think this activity is healthy. Movement of new blood into the language business ensures that the best ideas from other industries will find their way into the globalization space. At the same time, the cross-pollination of companies by executives moving to different firms shakes up the status quo and gives people and companies a chance to experiment with new ideas and directions. And for those pioneers like Brian Kelly retiring from the industry, it gives everyone in the business a sense of accomplishment.
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