Recent news and Elanex history
March 2013
Elanex Milestone: 300 million words translated by their “Crowd in the Cloud”.
See news release.
November 2012
Security Innovation and Elanex Collaborate to Open International Markets.
See news release.
October 2012
expressIt Profiled by Translation Reports -- To be Demonstrated at Localization World 2012.
See news release.
September 2012
Elanex celebrates 10th anniversary.
See news release.
August 2012
Elanex ranks number 1822 on the 2012 Inc. 5000 with three-Year sales growth of 154%.
See news release.
June 2012
Elanex announces the launch of expressIt,
offering high quality professional human translations in as little as 3 hours, available 24x7.
See news release.
Elanex vaults into top 100 position in Annual Ranking of Largest Global Language Services Providers.
See news release.
April 2012
Translators without Borders announces First Platinum Sponsor: Elanex.
See news release.
March 2012
Elanex launches expressIt, a revolutionary new approach to language translation.
expressIt provides all the depth, nuance and quality of the world's best quality human translators,
delivered with unprecedented speed resulting from powerful automation technology.
April 2011
IntraLinks announces new translation services for M&A customers and users.
See news release.
March 2011
Russell Trounce joins Elanex as Vice President of Sales.
See news release.
February 2011
Agnieszka Ostrowska joins Elanex as Global Practitioner Manager.
See news release.
December 2010
Elanex announces strategic partnership with MailUp, Italy's market leading email and e-marking services provider.
See news release.
October 2010
Elanex to present at IMAP International Mergers and Acquisitions Symposium in Paris.
See news release.
September 2010
Donald Plumley named CEO of Elanex.
See news release.
June 2010
Market research firm Common Sense Advisory ranks Elanex as one of the largest providers of translation and localization
services in North America. See news release.
January 2010
Robert Gumley, general manager of Elanex Japan, is interviewed by
The Japan Times
about living abroad successfully as a bicultural hybrid.
Donald Plumley, an experienced global business leader and localization industry executive, has joined in the new role of president, to lead the next stage of growth and development.
See news release. Common Sense Advisory
shares their perspective.
March 2009
Elanex offers free translation and translation consulting to Hillary Clinton and the US State Department to prevent future translation blunders.
See news release.
October 2008
Joe Dougherty, a business builder with deep technology expertise, joins Elanex as
General Manager for Italy, and Elanex launches Italian presence. See news release.
February 2008
Thomas Edwards, an industry key player, joins Elanex as Director of Major accounts,
with the mission of building Elanex's business with global key accounts. See news release for more details.
Elanex announces ElanexINSIDE, a ground-breaking managed services platform
combining the best of Elanex technology and Elanex services. See the
news release for more details, or go to the
main ElanexINSIDE page to read more about the program.
January 2008
Russell Hyzen joins Elanex as head of corporate and business
development. See news release for more details.
December 2007
Translation memory 2.0 article by Jonathan Kirk, Elanex CEO,
published in ClientSideNews.
October 2007
Elanex Translation Search Engine (TSE) featured in
Jost Zetzsche's Tool Kit.
Elanex opens new office in Fukuoka, Japan. See news release for more details, or visit our
Fukuoka office home page.
Elanex announces acquisition of Reports From China, and
appointment of Lan Lin as China Practice Leader.
View news release for more details.
September 2007
Elanex introduces the Translation Search Engine - a revolutionary new translator productivity tool.
For more information see the translation search engine
news release. To sign up for the beta program click here.
August 2007
Elanex announces the Elanex University training program for internal
team members and for Elanex Certified Partners (translation resellers).
See news release for more details on the Elanex University.
Read more about Elanex Certified Partners.
July 2007
Elanex introduces the Real-Time Localization™ methodology.
See news release for more details.
August 2006
Tom Dillon, former COO of Netflix, joins
Elanex as investor and board member. See news release for details.
July 2006
Elanex announces formation of Hispanic practice focused on needs of growing US
Hispanic population. See news release for details; read more about the
Hispanic practice.
March 2006
Elanex appoints Michael Teper as CTO.
January 2006
Ask an expert - article by Mathew Ward, General Manager for Elanex Australia,
featured by Australian Business Limited.
November 2005
Elanex opens Melbourne office.
April 2005
Elanex featured as case study
for Overture in Australia.
March 2005
Elanex featured as
case study for
JETRO based on success in Japan.
February 2005
Elanex launches Apollo system enabling any user of Microsoft Word to
access the Elanex Translation Inventory, taking translator productivity
to a new level.
November 2004
Elanex appoints Naoki Nashimoto as practice leader for the
sales support 'First Response' function, and Keith Roeller as
practice leader for major clients in Japan.
July 2004
Elanex appoints Mathew Ward as Regional Manager for
Australia and opens new office in Sydney.
May 2004
Elanex consolidates work for financial clients into new
financial services practice area and appoints
Paul O'Hare practice leader.
February 2004
Elanex opens Silicon Valley office.
November 2003
Elanex launches multilingual server-based Translation Inventory,
with advanced fast matching.
June 2003
Elanex completes development of ETM (Elanex Translation Manager)
and the Inventory, the integrated Elanex
document processing and translation memory system.
May 2003
Elanex appoints Robert Gumley as Regional Manager for
Japan and opens new office in Tokyo.
May 2003
Elanex appoints Troy Helm as Chief Operating Officer.
April 2003
Elanex acquires Bay Area translation company.
January 2003
Elanex completes EON (Elanex Online System) technology development and launches translation service.
November 2002
Elanex opens San Francisco headquarters.
April 2002
Elanex idea conceived and prototype technology development begins.