ADVISORS

The TAUS Advisory Board supports the management with advice on strategic direction, content of forums and meetings and the growth of the membership. Advisory Board members review all membership requests. The board consists of the following members:

Aiman Copty
General Manager, Oracle Worldwide Product Translation Group

Diane Wagner
Director, Office International Publishing Group, Microsoft

Francis Tsang
Director Globalization, Adobe

Karen Combe
Vice President Localization, PTC

Fred Hollowood
Director Translation, Shared Engineering Services, Symantec

Jessica Roland
Director, Product Management, Yahoo! Global Product Development Group

Jack Boyce
Localization Director, Google

Valarie Gilbert
Senior Director, e-Services, EMC

Alison Toon
Globalization Manager, Hewlett-Packard 

"TAUS is a rare and open forum that leaders of globalization meet, share, and collaborate. We meet for a simple reason - to identify or create innovations and trends in language and communication technology that solves our complex business problems in serving customers worldwide." Francis Tsang

"TAUS provides a valuable service to the localization industry by disseminating information on changing technologies. The TAUS meetings offer a forum for localization leaders on both the vendor and client sides to discuss the pros and cons of their strategies, and to establish the way forward to greater productivity. TAUS participants explore structures to apply new and existing technologies, as well as appropriate business models." Karen Combe

"TAUS acts as a champion in the field of language technology. It provides a platform for current practice and promotes communication across the broad range of language technology users. It acts as a focal point for both the vendor and publisher communities. Its function is to build effective communication and critical mass around language technologies." Fred Hollowood

"TAUS is leading the way to better understanding and adoption of new technologies and practices that will fundamentally change the content globalization landscape. It is a very effective forum for in-depth discussion among top globalization technology and service buyers, as well as leading innovators on the supplier side. It provides a way for buyers and sellers to join forces in a collaborative way, in order to move the entire state-of-the-industry forward." Jessica Roland