Apart from being concerned with translation and the many
other topics related to it, the people who work at Comms
are the ones who make the company what it is.
At its head is Sue Orchard
- the founder of the company. Her professional life has
been spent in International Sales and Marketing, something
she is passionate about. For many years, she worked as the
International Sales Director for a worldwide publishing
company, but then decided that she needed a new challenge,
hence the creation of Comms Multilingual. Sue is a languages
graduate with a top degree in German and Russian, a good
knowledge of French, and a working understanding of most
of the European languages. Sue won the "Modern Languages
Prize" for being the top language student in her final
year at University. Sue is a member of the following professional
organisations :
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.
- Member of the International Test Commission (representing Psychometric Test Publishers).
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Sales and Marketing Management.
- Member of the Institute of Directors.
Manda Patel handles our
administration and she is a native Gujarati speaker. Her team
is responsible for dealing with all our payments to suppliers
and for handling our linguist database. Manda brings with
her a wealth of experience in administration.
Graham Morris is our Technical
Director. He is in charge of our IT strategy, systems and
our web sites. Graham also provides assistance with translation
projects that involve more complex formats.
Our main project managers are as follows:
Sonia Sala is our Operations
Manager. Sonia is a Spanish national, who has a Degree in
Translation and Interpreting from the Universitat Autonoma
de Barcelona in Spain in English, Italian and Danish. She
also has some knowledge of Portuguese, and German. She has
also undertaken year-long courses in Translation and Interpreting
at Copenhagen Business School, in French Language and Culture
at Université Marc Bloch de Strasbourg in France
and a Teacher Training course at the Universitat Autonoma
de Barcelona, Spain. Sonia has lived and worked in Spain,
Italy, Ireland, England, France, Denmark and Portugal and
offers a variety of experience, including Project Management
and Translation for a translation agency in Barcelona. She
has also worked in a variety of roles in the Tourism and
Leisure sector, including as an International Conference
organiser and as a Conference Interpreter. Sonia has specialised
at Comms in handling the translation of psychometric tests.
Catlin Fu
comes from Beijing, the Capital of China. She holds a
Bachelor degree in Engineering, from Beijing Institute of Technology,
China. A three-time first prize winner of the National English
Contest for College Students, Catlin’s always passionate
about languages. She came to the UK to study for an MSc in Scientific,
Medical and Technical Translation with Translation Technology
at Imperial College London. She’s responsible, hardworking,
and enthusiastic about both translation and technology, and
determined to integrate them by using TM and all the other
translation-related applications for her projects. Catlin
is your main contact for typesetting, website localisation
and voice-over projects at Comms.
Sophie Malik
is a Canadian citizen and has lived in both Canada and the
USA. She has
completed majors in International Studies and Spanish from
the University of Illinois, with a specialised concentration
on European Affairs. Sophie has additionally studied at
Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao, Spain as well as at the
Spanish Language School of Middlebury College. Sophie is
responsible for projects localised for North America and
Canada, amongst other types of projects.
Heike Weber
is from Germany, and is training as a legal translator with
economics and natural sciences as additional subjects. Heike
is responsible for the maintenance of our suppliers
database and project assistance,
amongst other duties.