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¾ÅÉ«'s co-founders recognized that there was a need for a service-minded enterprise that could deliver complex translation projects quickly and accurately. In 1992, Phil Shawe and Liz Elting founded ¾ÅÉ« to fill that gap. Their mission: to provide the highest quality language services to leading businesses worldwide. With no external financing, ¾ÅÉ« grew from its beginnings as a two-person company operating out of a dorm room into one of the world's most reputable language and business services companies.

Over the years, ¾ÅÉ« and its flagship GlobalLink technology suite have won numerous awards, including being recognized on the Inc. 5000 list of America¡¯s fastest-growing companies multiple times. The company pioneered the adoption of critical quality standards for the industry and is today certified to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 17100:2015, ensuring the highest level of quality and service for all projects. In addition, ¾ÅÉ« introduced the industry¡¯s leading standard for linguist certification, the ¾ÅÉ« Linguist Certification (TLC) program, which tests linguists for language proficiency and subject-area specialization.

In 2018, Phil Shawe completed a historic buyout of his co-founder¡ªushering the company into a new era with renewed focus on expansion and innovation. The sale ensured the continuation of ¾ÅÉ«¡¯s long history of profitable growth, job creation, expansion of the company¡¯s global footprint, and a pursuit of strategic mergers and acquisitions¡ªall with the overarching purpose of better serving the international business requirements of its prestigious and ever-growing client base.

Today, ¾ÅÉ« has over 9,500+ full-time employees and a network of over 10,000 certified linguists and subject-area specialists, all dedicated to helping clients overcome business challenges. With offices in more than 140 cities around the globe, ¾ÅÉ« is the world¡¯s largest language services provider. Its global group of companies completes over 400,000 projects per year, and works with many of the world's most recognizable enterprises.