Seasoned IT executive and automated translation technology visionary Kirti Vashee joins Asia Online
Industry veteran and statistical machine translation evangelist to spearhead international sales
(EMAILWIRE.COM, April 02, 2008 ) Bangkok - Seasoned IT sales and marketing executive and SMT (statistical machine translation) evangelist, Kirti Vashee, has joined automated translation technology expert, Asia Online, as Vice President of Sales for the Americas and Europe.
An industry veteran, Vashee joins Asia Online from SMT pioneer, Language Weaver where, as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, he was responsible for the company’s worldwide business development strategy.
Vashee brings extensive enterprise software and information services industries experience to the company, having held senior sales and product marketing positions in both small entrepreneurial start-ups that were successfully sold to much larger public companies, as well as large blue chip organizations, including EMC and Dow Jones.
Rapid economic growth in Asia, and globalization trends in general, have led to significant demand by the world's largest companies to bring content, product, and services to Asian markets. Asia Online is focused on building best-of-breed translation systems that pair 11 Asian languages with the most widely spoken European languages, not just to English.
Additionally, the next billion Internet users are also largely expected to be Asian, offering lucrative new markets to Global 2000 companies who reach out to this new user base. In addition, Asia Online plans to expand its core Asian language portfolio to include direct translation to/from many key European languages throughout this year.
By 2012, Asia is expected to account for almost 50% of all Internet users.
Asia Online aims to have more than 48 million new users throughout Asia, who will be regularly using the Internet in their own languages, for everything from email, to in-depth research and educationally-focused content.
“It is extremely gratifying that our vision has caught the attention of such a key industry player. This is a key appointment that will significantly boost our global sales and marketing push at a pivotal point in our growth,” said Dion Wiggins, Chief Executive Officer of Asia Online.
“Kirti has built an enviable reputation as a thought leader and visionary in large-scale corporate translation and its role in furthering international trade and communication. His in-depth understanding of the knowledge management and translation industries, coupled with his expertise in building worldwide partnerships, will unquestionably help us to strengthen and build our partner and customer network.
Vashee has established successful sales operations for several companies in Europe and the Asia Pacific region, and has extensive experience developing motivated and effective distribution channels and partner networks. He joined Language Weaver in 2005 from EMC where, most recently, he was Vice President, Xtender Solutions. He became part of EMC’s organization when it acquired Smart Storage (Legato), a company that he was instrumental in building from a five-person start-up to a successful, globally recognized
125 person organization.
Vashee is a sought-after and accomplished speaker on automated translation technology at localization and globalization technology focused conferences around the world.
“Asia Online has a tremendously compelling – even world-changing vision. I am excited to be part of a company whose unique services will enable people to transcend language as a barrier to knowledge,” said Vashee. “Today, more than 86% of all content on the Internet is in non-Asian languages. The remaining 14% is mostly Chinese, Japanese and Korean, with all other Asian language combined accounting for less than 0.03% of all content online.
Asia Online will make a massive amount of new content available in these under-served languages and quite possibly change the translation landscape in doing so.”
“Asia Online offers a technology infrastructure that I believe is truly revolutionary and provides significant productivity increases to its emerging corporate customer base as this architecture allows their systems to improve with each use and ongoing corrective feedback. This continuous feedback loop will drive constant quality improvements, which will encourage and enable massive translation projects that would never otherwise be undertaken.”
Vashee did his undergraduate work in economics and finance at Bombay University, India, and received his MBA from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. He is an active member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs Association www.tie.org).
About Asia Online (www.asiaonline.net)
Asia Online’s unique services enable people to transcend language as a barrier to knowledge by providing unrivalled access to the limitless store of English-language content on the Internet, in their language of choice.
Asia Online's primary focus delivers huge amounts of content in local languages. In doing so it has created a core technological infrastructure that enables massive translation projects to be undertaken. Asia Online is working with language service providers and publishers with its unique infrastructure that facilitates the ongoing evolution of real time corrective improvements that aims to deliver machine translation quality that is second to none.
Formed in 2006, Asia Online is a privately owned company backed by a number of individual investors and institutional venture capital. It is headquartered in Singapore, with operational headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, from where it conducts R&D and daily business operations. Asia Online currently employs more than 150 staff and is in the process of being incorporated in an additional 10 Asian countries.
Issued by Asia Online
For further information please contact:
Dion Wiggins
18 Soi Sukhumvit 41 (Pirom)
Sukhumvit Road
Klongton-Nua, Wattana
Bangkok 10110
media@asiaonline.net
+66 8786-3353
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An industry veteran, Vashee joins Asia Online from SMT pioneer, Language Weaver where, as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, he was responsible for the company’s worldwide business development strategy.
Vashee brings extensive enterprise software and information services industries experience to the company, having held senior sales and product marketing positions in both small entrepreneurial start-ups that were successfully sold to much larger public companies, as well as large blue chip organizations, including EMC and Dow Jones.
Rapid economic growth in Asia, and globalization trends in general, have led to significant demand by the world's largest companies to bring content, product, and services to Asian markets. Asia Online is focused on building best-of-breed translation systems that pair 11 Asian languages with the most widely spoken European languages, not just to English.
Additionally, the next billion Internet users are also largely expected to be Asian, offering lucrative new markets to Global 2000 companies who reach out to this new user base. In addition, Asia Online plans to expand its core Asian language portfolio to include direct translation to/from many key European languages throughout this year.
By 2012, Asia is expected to account for almost 50% of all Internet users.
Asia Online aims to have more than 48 million new users throughout Asia, who will be regularly using the Internet in their own languages, for everything from email, to in-depth research and educationally-focused content.
“It is extremely gratifying that our vision has caught the attention of such a key industry player. This is a key appointment that will significantly boost our global sales and marketing push at a pivotal point in our growth,” said Dion Wiggins, Chief Executive Officer of Asia Online.
“Kirti has built an enviable reputation as a thought leader and visionary in large-scale corporate translation and its role in furthering international trade and communication. His in-depth understanding of the knowledge management and translation industries, coupled with his expertise in building worldwide partnerships, will unquestionably help us to strengthen and build our partner and customer network.
Vashee has established successful sales operations for several companies in Europe and the Asia Pacific region, and has extensive experience developing motivated and effective distribution channels and partner networks. He joined Language Weaver in 2005 from EMC where, most recently, he was Vice President, Xtender Solutions. He became part of EMC’s organization when it acquired Smart Storage (Legato), a company that he was instrumental in building from a five-person start-up to a successful, globally recognized
125 person organization.
Vashee is a sought-after and accomplished speaker on automated translation technology at localization and globalization technology focused conferences around the world.
“Asia Online has a tremendously compelling – even world-changing vision. I am excited to be part of a company whose unique services will enable people to transcend language as a barrier to knowledge,” said Vashee. “Today, more than 86% of all content on the Internet is in non-Asian languages. The remaining 14% is mostly Chinese, Japanese and Korean, with all other Asian language combined accounting for less than 0.03% of all content online.
Asia Online will make a massive amount of new content available in these under-served languages and quite possibly change the translation landscape in doing so.”
“Asia Online offers a technology infrastructure that I believe is truly revolutionary and provides significant productivity increases to its emerging corporate customer base as this architecture allows their systems to improve with each use and ongoing corrective feedback. This continuous feedback loop will drive constant quality improvements, which will encourage and enable massive translation projects that would never otherwise be undertaken.”
Vashee did his undergraduate work in economics and finance at Bombay University, India, and received his MBA from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. He is an active member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs Association www.tie.org).
About Asia Online (www.asiaonline.net)
Asia Online’s unique services enable people to transcend language as a barrier to knowledge by providing unrivalled access to the limitless store of English-language content on the Internet, in their language of choice.
Asia Online's primary focus delivers huge amounts of content in local languages. In doing so it has created a core technological infrastructure that enables massive translation projects to be undertaken. Asia Online is working with language service providers and publishers with its unique infrastructure that facilitates the ongoing evolution of real time corrective improvements that aims to deliver machine translation quality that is second to none.
Formed in 2006, Asia Online is a privately owned company backed by a number of individual investors and institutional venture capital. It is headquartered in Singapore, with operational headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, from where it conducts R&D and daily business operations. Asia Online currently employs more than 150 staff and is in the process of being incorporated in an additional 10 Asian countries.
Issued by Asia Online
For further information please contact:
Dion Wiggins
18 Soi Sukhumvit 41 (Pirom)
Sukhumvit Road
Klongton-Nua, Wattana
Bangkok 10110
media@asiaonline.net
+66 8786-3353
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