Doug Lawrence

Doug Lawrence is a sought-after international speaker with an engaging style that is energetic, informative, and based on almost 20 years in the translation industry; having held several international sale roles with leading translation companies and a translation tool vendor.
Mr. Lawrence is a passionate advocate for the professional translation industry, working to raise its profile and promote the value chain mentality in clients, translation companies, freelancers and educators.
Lawrence founded an independent translation technology consulting company, Amicus TransTec, in 2006. In 2007 Lawrence created the industry’s leading sales training programme Selling Translations^®.
When not delivering training or running Amicus TransTec, Lawrence works for the UK Government as an Export Communications Consultant for UK small and medium sized businesses. Lawrence is a consultant lecturer on the MA in Translation Studies and MA in Translation in a European Context at Aston University, UK, and the Instructor for ITSE 6083 Managing the Sales Process at Austin Community College Texas, USA. He is also a Business Language Champion visiting schools to encourage children to study languages, and is on the Regional Advisory Board for Links into Languages which provides support for language educators. Lawrence is one of the UK's Principal Experts to ISO TC 37 (SC 3 and 4) and is a qualified ISO 9001 Lead Auditor.
Lawrence (BSc in Computer Science, MBA) is an associate member of the Institute of Translation & Interpreting and a member of the Institute of Sales & Sales Management.

Angela Starkmann

Over 10 years experience as freelance translator (Dutch/English/French/Swedish/German <>English/German), interpreter (Days of Independent Film, Augsburg), reviewer, language teacher and copywriter.

Chris Tibbetts

With 26 years of international sales experience Chris is a natural motivator for sales leaders and their teams. Chris has sold enterprise level software into industries including Oil and Gas, Defence, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing and Utilities across Europe, Africa and South America. He has held sales and marketing positions at a national and international level with profit and loss responsibility. A hungry new business developer Chris has set up a number of successful country offices from scratch.