Our Management Team’s Accomplishments

Meet the Management Team of Foreign Translations, Inc.

• Ken Zwerdling CEO

  

  With over 25 years of business experience, Ken is responsible for the company’s growth. He oversees the firm's Business Development, Marketing, Strategic Partnerships and all Internet/Website activities. Prior to joining Foreign Translations, Inc., as CEO, Ken was the President of New VentureZ Business Solutions, Inc., a Management Consulting firm specializing in the preparation of Business, Strategic, Capital and Marketing Plans for emerging and expanding companies.

  Ken has helped launch over a dozen companies in such industries as Technology, Internet, E-Commerce, Telecommunications, Health Care, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Financial Services, Entertainment and other service-related companies. He has extensive experience in financial modeling and in raising venture capital. Prior to forming New VentureZ Business Solutions, Inc., Ken was the Manager of Finance at Ryder System, Inc., Controller for a national architecture, engineering and construction firm, Analyst for a publishing firm and an Accountant for Goldman Sachs, a Wall Street Investment Bank.

  Ken has an undergraduate degree from the State University of New York in Finance and Economics and an MBA from Nova’s Graduate School of Business.

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• Tamar Paltrow President

  

  Ms. Paltrow has been the President of Foreign Translations, Inc., since its inception in 1998. She is responsible for client relations and shares in the tasks of project management and business development. She has been a professional linguist for over 20 years and boasts of a very diverse and exciting career in the field. With Italian interpreting and translation assignments ranging from national and international government projects in both the legal and scientific arenas, to industrial manuals and engineering training, all the way to tour guiding in the US and across Europe, she is sought out by clients across the globe. She was the key interpreter and translator for the U.S. Marine Corps in the multiple court martial trials of the pilot and navigator responsible for killing 20 people in the Italian Alps in 1998. She is regularly hired to interpret for depositions and trials in lengthy multi-million dollar lawsuits and is recognized by Federal and State Courts. Her reputation for excellence has brought her large translation projects including important pharmaceutical trial documents, intergovernmental agreements and highly technical manuals.

  Her background in languages began as an infant born to American parents in France and later developed while she completed her Bachelor studies at Temple University in Rome, Italy. After four years working in Milan for a group of international businesses, Tamar received a full scholarship for her Masters Degree at the prestigious Middlebury College Language Schools in Middlebury, Vermont. Middlebury is world renowned for maintaining a strict use of the language of study, thereby forcing students to fully utilize and develop their language skills. At Middlebury, Tamar was awarded the Cecchetti Award for Academic Excellence.

  As President of Foreign Translations, Inc., Tamar brings to the company an in-depth knowledge of document translation, international experience and professionalism.

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