February 28, 2012 | 9am MDT An Introduction to Acrolinx IQ in the cloud Register Now
Dr. Andrew Bredenkamp is co-founder and CEO of Acrolinx. Andrew has over 20 years of experience in multilingual information development. Before starting Acrolinx, Andrew was Head of the Technology Transfer Centre at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Language Technology Lab. Andrew holds degrees in technical translation and linguistics and a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics. He is on the advisory board of a number of organizations, including Translators without Borders and The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL).
Markus Juhr-De Benedetti has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry. Before joining Acrolinx, Markus led the international expansions of Crossgate AG – a privately held SAAS/B2B company – and Chordiant Software Inc. (NASDAQ CHRD) into the US and several European countries during phases of hyper-growth as global COO and local chief executive. Before that, he directed global Business Process Reengineering, M&A and post-merger integration projects as a principal at a top-tier US management consultancy. Markus holds an MBA degree from INSEAD (France), and a Masters of Computer Science degree from Rutgers University (US). He speaks German, English, French and Italian.
Ulrich has more than 10 years of experience in designing and implementing advanced natural language processing systems. He holds a Diploma (MsC) in Computer Science with a minor in Computational Linguistics from Saarland University. At YY Technologies in Mountain View, CA, he developed an accurate and efficient natural language analysis component. Before joining Acrolinx in 2003, he was a researcher at Saarland University.