Qualifications, experience/career:
- BA, English & Philosophy majors, Psychology minor + Afrikaans/Nederlands I, +16 LLB subjects - from UKZN https://www.ukzn.ac.za/
- Worked for three years as an attorney's articled clerk in a leading civil law practice. 
- Graduate marketing trainee at Lever Bros (Unilever, R.S.A.).
- Account manager -> account director in global ad agencies like Grey (South Africa) and Lintas (Sydney); founded Lintas:Direct Sydney; managed ans turned around Wunderman Sydney; transferred to their Amsterdam office (Wunderman was then the world's biggest interactive agency, today it's in the global top 5). 
 - Left Wunderman, remained in Amsterdam, turning around and founding other agencies, then becoming an independent consultant/interim manager with long-term clients in mobile telephony, triple-play cable, advertising agencies, etc.
- I added translation to my current service offer about 15 years ago.  

Broad fields of experience and translation expertise:
In addition to my English studies, additional legal subjects at university and legal work experience, I was fortunate to manage the advertising accounts of a wide range of leading global brands during my advertising career. From Land Rover to Lanvin and from Tesa to Toys 'R' Us. Clients require deep immersion and knowledge of their business from full-service ad agencies. As a result I am on intimate terms with the terminology, cultures and language of very many product and service categories. In my work as CEO/MD of ad agencies in the Netherlands I also became familiar with Dutch legal, financial and management terminology and language. 

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