Chairman
Roy Allkin, Co-founder and Director, Wolfestone Translation Ltd
ATC Chairman
Member ATC Membership Committee
Member ATC Conference Organising Commitee
Roy Allkin is the co-founder and Operations Director of Wolfestone Translation Ltd Ltd.
Vice Chairman
Jesper Sandberg, Executive Chairman, STP Nordic
Vice-chair ATC
Member ATC Conference Organising Committee
Member ATC Membership Committee
Jesper Sandberg graduated in Denmark in 1990 with a vocational Master's degree in technical, legal and commercial translation and interpreting.
Treasurer
Cherie Plaice, MD, Wordfish Translations
ATC Treasurer
ATC's EUATC Representative
Member Conference Organising Committee
Cherie Plaice is the founder and MD of Wordfish Translations (formerly SBC Translations).
General Secretary
Geoffrey Bowden, General Secretary
Geoffrey has served the Association of Translation Companies for 37 years and will be retiring at the end of June 2017.
Council member
Isabella Moore CBE, Co-Director, Comtec Translations
Chair, PR & Public Affairs Committee
Member ATC Ethics Committee
Isabella is Co-Director of Comtec Translations , which Isabella originally founded in 1986, sold in 20002 and re-acquired with daughter, Sophie Howe, in 2007,
Council member
Paul Stewart, Director, Wessex Translations
Member ATC ISO Advisory Panel
Member ISO Mirror Group
Paul Stewart is director of Wessex Translations Limited, the longest standing member of the ATC. Paul holds the National Diploma in Agriculture from Harper Adams University College, and a Diploma in Management Studies.
Council member
Levent Yildizgoren, MD, TTC wetranslate
Levent is the Managing Director of TTC wetranslate . He is a seasoned English-Turkish translator and a PRINCE2 qualified project manager. Levent has been in the translation industry since 1992.
Council member
Lynn Everson, MD, Lifeline Languages
Member ATC ISO Advisory Panel
With an MA in Translation, Lynn is MCIL (Spanish) and MITI (French) and founded Lifeline Language Services in 1990 to provide emergency response language to the haulage industry.
Council member
Ruth Partington, Founder, RP Translate
Chair ATC Membership Committee
Chair ATC Conference Organising Committee
Ruth Partington graduated in 1986 with a degree in Russian and Italian from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.
Council member
Mark Robinson, MD, Alexika
Member of the ATC PR and Public Affairs Committee
Mark has a degree in German Studies from the University of Lancaster, a Diploma in Translation from the Chartered Institute of Linguists and an MBA from Cranfield University.
Council member
Christine Weightman, CEO ETLS International
Member PR & Public Affairs Committee
Member ATC Ethics Committee
Christine Weightman, the Chief Executive of ETLS International, has been working in the translation profession for more than 25 years, after an earlier career in management.
Co-opted Council member
Raisa McNab, Quality & Training Manager, Sandberg Translation Partners (STP)
Co-opted Council lead on standards
She chairs the ATC's ISO commenting group. At STP she is responsible for it’s quality management system and translation services standard certification.
