Jaap van der meer

Jaap van der Meer is director of TAUS. 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 inspired and funded the founding meetings of the LISA organization for the localization industry and he co-founded the SAE TopTec Multilingual Communications Conference for the automotive industry. He was president and CEO of ALPNET. He is also cofounder and partner of Cross Language n.v., a consultancy and system integration company specialized in language technology. Jaap van der Meer is a member of the Localization World management team, a regular speaker at conferences and author of many articles about technologies and translation and globalization trends.