ALPNET announces addition to corporate management.SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 1995--ALPNET, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AILP AILP Associazione Italiana Lavoratori e Pensionati (Italian Retired Persons Association) AILP Application-Initiated Lightpath Provisioning ), the worldwide supplier of language translation, software localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. , and related services, today announced the appointment of Jaap van der Meer Van der Meer is a Dutch surname that simply means the phrase 'from the lake' in English. Many years ago, descendants would have lived from a lake in the Netherlands which is how the name first originated. as vice president and member of the worldwide executive management team at ALPNET. In making the announcement, the company noted that van der Meer was the founder and former managing director of INK, a major competitor in the language translation industry, which was sold to R.R. Donnelly in 1993. Thomas F. Seal, ALPNET president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , stated, "Jaap van der Meer is widely known and respected in the translation and localization industry as a visionary and creative leader. He was the driving force behind INK, building it from a startup to a successful company with annual revenues of over US$15 million and one of the three recognized market leaders. We are very pleased to have Jaap join ALPNET as a member of our management team. We feel confident his knowledge and abilities will complement those of existing management in moving ALPNET forward in terms of new services, expansion of our software localization business, increased customer service, and the improved use of technology to deliver language services." Seal also said, "Mr. van der Meer will be based in The Netherlands, and will lead ALPNET's establishment of ALPNET-Netherlands in providing translation into Dutch as well as serving Dutch multinational clients with translation into other languages. In addition, he will lead ALPNET's worldwide sales to the Computer Hardware and Software Industries, and will take the lead role in establishing a software localization center dedicated to providing these specialized translation services." With the establishment of ALPNET-Netherlands, ALPNET provides its worldwide language services to clients from 28 offices in 12 countries in Europe, North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , and Asia. ALPNET supplies its customers with language translation, product localization, language interpreting, language training, and multilingual desktop publishing, typesetting typesetting: see printing. typesetting Setting of type for use in any of various printing processes. Type for printing, using woodblocks, was invented in China in the 11th century, and movable type using metal molds had appeared in Korea by the 13th , and printing services. CONTACT: ALPNET, Inc., Salt Lake City D. Kerry Stubbs, 801/265-3300 |
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