Recent news and Elanex history
June 2010
Market research firm Common Sense Advisory ranks Elanex as one of the largest providers of translation and localization
services in North America. See press release.
January 2010
Robert Gumley, general manager of Elanex Japan, is interviewed by
The Japan Times
about living abroad successfully as a bicultural hybrid.
Donald Plumley, an experienced global business leader and localization industry executive, has joined in the new role of president, to lead the next stage of growth and development.
See press release. Common Sense Advisory
shares their perspective.
March 2009
Elanex offers free translation and translation consulting to Hillary Clinton and the US State Department to prevent future translation blunders.
See press release.
January 2009
Elanex is now represented in South East Asia by Calvin Lee, a successful translation industry entrepreneur and a published author. Calvin, who heads up Elanex Bangkok, has already been featured by the Bangkok Post (see Elanex wants Thai presence) and in Bernama.com, the Malaysian National News Agency (see Elanex: Translate Product Info Into Multiple Languages).
December 2008
Stefan Joris, a long time insider in Europe's localization industry, has joined as General Manager for Belgium, accelerating Elanex's European expansion. See press release.
October 2008
Joe Dougherty, a business builder with deep technology expertise, joins Elanex as
General Manager for Italy, and Elanex launches Italian presence. See press release.
February 2008
Thomas Edwards, an industry key player, joins Elanex as Director of Major accounts,
with the mission of building Elanex's business with global key accounts. See press release for more details.
Elanex announces ElanexINSIDE, a ground-breaking managed services platform
combining the best of Elanex technology and Elanex services. See the
press release for more details, or go to the
main ElanexINSIDE page to read more about the program.
January 2008
Russell Hyzen joins Elanex as head of corporate and business
development. See press release for more details.
December 2007
Translation memory 2.0 article by Jonathan Kirk, Elanex CEO,
published in ClientSideNews.
October 2007
Elanex Translation Search Engine (TSE) featured in
Jost Zetzsche's Tool Kit.
Elanex opens new office in Fukuoka, Japan. See press release for more details, or visit our
Fukuoka office home page.
Elanex announces acquisition of Reports From China, and
appointment of Lan Lin as China Practice Leader.
View press release for more details.
September 2007
Elanex introduces the Translation Search Engine - a revolutionary new translator productivity tool.
For more information see the translation search engine
press release. To sign up for the beta program click here.
August 2007
Elanex announces the Elanex University training program for internal
team members and for Elanex Certified Partners (translation resellers).
See press release for more details on the Elanex University.
Read more about Elanex Certified Partners.
July 2007
Elanex introduces the Real-Time Localization™ methodology.
See press release for more details.
August 2006
Tom Dillon, former COO of Netflix, joins
Elanex as investor and board member. See press release for details.
July 2006
Elanex announces formation of Hispanic practice focused on needs of growing US
Hispanic population. See press release for details; read more about the
Hispanic practice.
March 2006
Elanex appoints Michael Teper as CTO.
January 2006
Ask an expert - article by Mathew Ward, General Manager for Elanex Australia,
featured by Australian Business Limited.
November 2005
Elanex opens Melbourne office.
April 2005
Elanex featured as case study
for Overture in Australia.
March 2005
Elanex featured as
case study for
JETRO based on success in Japan.
February 2005
Elanex launches Apollo system enabling any user of Microsoft Word to
access the Elanex Translation Inventory, taking translator productivity
to a new level.
November 2004
Elanex appoints Naoki Nashimoto as practice leader for the
sales support 'First Response' function, and Keith Roeller as
practice leader for major clients in Japan.
July 2004
Elanex appoints Mathew Ward as Regional Manager for
Australia and opens new office in Sydney.
May 2004
Elanex consolidates work for financial clients into new
financial services practice area and appoints
Paul O'Hare practice leader.
February 2004
Elanex opens Silicon Valley office.
November 2003
Elanex launches multilingual server-based Translation Inventory,
with advanced fast matching.
June 2003
Elanex completes development of ETM (Elanex Translation Manager)
and the Inventory, the integrated Elanex
document processing and translation memory system.
May 2003
Elanex appoints Robert Gumley as Regional Manager for
Japan and opens new office in Tokyo.
May 2003
Elanex appoints Troy Helm as Chief Operating Officer.
April 2003
Elanex acquires Bay Area translation company.
January 2003
Elanex completes EON (Elanex Online System) technology development and launches translation service.
November 2002
Elanex opens San Francisco headquarters.
April 2002
Elanex idea conceived and prototype technology development begins.