Jaap van der Meer

Jaap van der Meer is a language industry pioneer and visionary, who started his first translation company in The Netherlands in 1980. In 1987, his company INK published the first desktop term extraction and translation memory software. He initiated the standards initiatives for the localization industry in the mid 80s and was leading in applying corpus analysis to support more efficient translation processes. He inspired and funded the founding meetings of the LISA organization and co-founded the SAE TopTec Multilingual Communications Conference for the automotive industry. He was President and CEO of ALPNET from 1997 till 2004, a period of tremendous growth for one of the first publicly traded global translation companies. In 25 years, Jaap accumulated a vast network of contacts in the globalization and localization industries. In 2005, Jaap van der Meer established the Translation Automation User Society (TAUS), along with founding members from most of the leading IT companies. TA