LISA Board Members

Bill Sullivan (IBM) has been the Strategic Advisor and a member of the executive committee of LISA since 2002. He has worked for the IBM Corporation for more than 32 years, the last 16 of which have been in the Globalization Services arena. During that time he has worked with thousands of software and hardware teams for products as diverse as PDAs and mass spectrometers. Bill is currently IBM's company-wide Globalization Executive and is responsible for all aspects of product globalization; he leads IBM's worldwide team of globalization subject matter experts including the teams that develop the open source International Components for Unicode and leading-edge linguistic technologies. Bill is a graduate of Fordham University, with post-graduate degrees from Trinity College Dublin and New York University. Bill is a polyglot manqué: he speaks intelligible German, embarrassing French and laughable Japanese and Chinese.

You may contact Bill Sullivan at wjsullgo@lisaaway.org

Lyra Spratt-Manning (LS Manning & Associates and Interverbum) has worked in senior accounting and international corporate management roles for the past thirty years with fourteen years in the localization industry as COO and CEO for RWS Group LLC and currently as General Manager - Interverbum, USA-West. Ms. Spratt-Manning served six years as board member for the San Francisco Global Trade Council, financial adviser and board member to the Idaho Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and five years as financial advisory board member to LISA.

She is a financial and ISO registration consultant for LS Manning & Associates, and as GM for Interverbum USA - West works with clients to integrate emerging localization technology tools and processes to increase quality, reduce cost and time to market. She holds a B Sc in Accounting and is a certified ISO leader auditor.

You may contact Lyra Spratt-Manning at lyrago@lisaaway.org.

Alison Toon is Translation and Localization Manager, Content Management Services at Hewlett-Packard. She has worked for Hewlett-Packard since 1991, originally as a usability engineer and technical author with localization responsibilities, for a networks division in Grenoble, France. After several years in this role, Alison moved on to creating, designing and introducing services such as web-based distribution of documentation and software to HP's support engineers.

Alison has been managing her localization program and team since 1997, growing the scope of responsibilities and increasing the team from one to many, and introducing centralized localization workflow tools to HP. The WW Operations CMS Translation and Localization team is now seen as an HP center of expertise for translation workflow.

Alison has recently moved to Long Island, New York. She manages a worldwide team responsible for the localization of web portals and services, and provides consulting to other HP organizations and program teams.

Before joining HP, Alison worked as an analyst-programmer and as a technical documentation consultant in various companies in the UK and the Netherlands.

You may contact Alison Toon at alisongo@lisaaway.org.

Michael Anobile (LISA) is an international businessman with over 25 years experience in the IT sector. He received a Bachelors of Science degree in communications at Syracuse University, and participated in the Masters degree program in political communications at the University of Maryland. After relocating his family to Switzerland in 1980 to become European Training Manager for Exxon Office Systems, he subsequently held a number of European and Swiss senior management positions in the IT and language-technology industries, focusing on global business development and marketing.

A founding member of LISA, and the Managing Director from its inception, he is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Association including outreach programs to other standards organizations (E.g., ISO, Unicode, Openi18N, W3C, OASIS, etc.) and government agencies (E.g., US Department of Commerce, the DoD, FBI, NVTC, NSA along with various Asian, Canadian and European language technology and national standards and trade bodies) as well as its international forums, training programs and industry marketing and public relations projects.

You may contact Michael Anobile at mikego@lisaaway.org

Joseph Hsu is Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Symbio, and Chairman and CEO from 1994 to 2007. Prior to founding Symbio in 1994, he was Executive Vice President of IISI, an IBM Joint Venture. He joined the NeoTech Development Corporation (NDC) in 1987, a 100% IBM-funded software and embedded system development company in Taiwan. NDC was the first in Greater China to focus on offshore software development directly with U.S. clients. NDC developed many of IBM's products, including Net Management and the Banking Transaction Security System. Mr. Hsu received his Master's degree in Econometrics from New York University and his Bachelor's degree in Economics from National Taiwan University. He is also on the Board of Directors for a number of software and technology companies in the U.S. and China.

Kurt Ramin is Commercial Director, IASCF, at the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in London, where he participated in the re-structuring and re-funding of the International Accounting Standards Committee into the current organization (www.iasb.org.uk). He currently also acts as Vice Chair, XBRL International (www.xbrl.org) to promote the use of this xml-based business reporting language. At the IASF he lead the effort to standardize and develop a 32-language glossary for accounting terminology. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS/IAS) are now accepted as Financial Reporting standards by over 90 countries and governments around the globe.

Formerly, he was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, New York, and CFO for several large international companies.

You may contact Kurt Ramin at kramingo@lisaaway.org.

Mrs. Alison Rowles-Anobile is the Director, Global Operations, The World Conservation Union (IUCN), located in Gland, Switzerland. She manages IUCN's global administrative services, including finance, legal and auditing, along with human resources, information management, performance assessment ensuring an effective and integrated worldwide cohesive set of support systems for operations throughout the organization.

She, formerly LISA's Controller and Business Manager, launched SMP Marketing Sarl in 1999 to provide localization industry marketing support through a virtual organization located on all continents. Prior to that she was Marketing and Business Consultant for Genevest, a high-technology investment fund, in addition to working with a variety of small entrepreneurial companies seeking growth opportunities and partnerships worldwide.

Her international experience also includes serving as Founder and Managing Director for Boxmart, SA, an international on-line trading network and working with a variety of global management and marketing positions with IT companies, including Exxon Office Systems, which first brought her to Geneva, Switzerland in 1980.

You may contact Alison Rowles at ahrowlesgo@lisaaway.org

Arnaud Daix is the business manager of the Application and Content Globalization (ACG) team in Hewlett-Packard Services. The team provides internationalization, localization, and global Enterprise Cataloguing and Publishing to both internal business units and external customers. It addresses product and software globalization challenges through an innovative approach including automation and offshore delivery capabilities.

Arnaud has been with HP since 1994, with responsibilities in Finance, Supply Chain, and Consulting both in the US and France. He's been in the localization business and ACG since 2000, handling business development and operations management.

You may contact Arnaud at arnaudgo@lisaaway.org.