L'équipe

Simon has been involved in translation and localization since 1980, when he was co-founder of INK International, the first software localization company in Europe. After the acquisition in 1993 of INK by a US company, he moved to California for a few years, to support its integration. Back in the Netherlands in 1996, he set up MediLingua: the translation company specifically geared to the medical sector.

Having managed MediLingua for 27 years, in 2023 he handed over the responsibility for the daily operations to Henk de Jonge, who took over his role as Managing Director. As founder of the company, Simon is still involved in MediLingua in an advisory and supervisory role, serving as sounding board for the management team and ambassador for the company.

He used to be involved in the Localization World translation conferences as a member of the Advisory Board for the Life Sciences pre-conference days and gave many presentations on aspects of medical translations and regulatory affairs. He served a 4-year-term as member of the Board of Directors of Translators without Borders (TWB), an organization facilitating the work that professional translators volunteer to do for humanitarian organizations. In 2012 he set up the TWB Health Translators’ Training Centre in Kenya and presented his healthcare translation course to over 250 linguists in Kenya and other countries in Africa.

Henk has been Managing Director of MediLingua since June 2023. He studied Law and Work- and Organizational Psychology at the Free University in Amsterdam. After his studies, he worked as a researcher and consultant for several years before being introduced to the translation industry in 1992. Fascinated by the diversity of people and cultures within the translation world and technological developments, he remained in the translation industry.

From the beginning of his involvement in the translation industry, he has focused on general management, project management, setting up translation processes and technological developments. This led him to co-found Doczone, a CCMS including translation technology for technical documentation, in 2006. He was also involved in the further development of the translation system XTM as a shareholder from that period.

Since June 2023, he has combined management positions at MediLingua and Scriptware, a general translation agency where he began his career in the translation industry in 1992 and has been a director since 2003.

Esther joined the MediLingua team in 2021. She principally deals with multilingual projects in the field of dentistry and spinal surgery, and has extensive experience in working with multimedia projects involving subtitling and voice over.

Esther holds a university degree in Translation Studies from the University of Groningen, in Spanish, Italian and English. After her studies, she went on to live and work in Spain for 2 years. Back in the Netherlands, she worked as a case manager for IBM for a few years before returning to her passion: translation. Before joining MediLingua, she was a project manager for a general translation agency, dealing with large projects in a broad spectrum of fields (e.g. technical, legal, marketing).

Esther is a native speaker of Dutch, speaks fluent English, Spanish and Italian, and B2-level German and French.

Joyce est arrivée chez MediLingua en 2004, après des études en sciences biomédicales et une mineure en « journalisme et nouveaux média » à l’Université de Leyde.

En tant que gestionnaire de projets, elle s’occupe de traductions dans tous les domaines de la médecine, de l’enregistrement de médicaments et de la recherche médicale. Elle est aussi notre rédactrice médicale interne : c’est elle qui rédige actes de symposiums et procès-verbaux de réunions des comités consultatifs, articles de presse et scripts pour des notices d’information des patients animées, et autres documents.

Joyce parle néerlandais et anglais.

Simone est responsable de la gestion financière et de des ressources humaines de MediLingua depuis avril 2000. Avant cette date, elle travaillait pour une grande banque internationale.

After having completed an internship, Miranda started working as an editor for Medilingua in 2021. This involves working on clinical trials, websites, commercial material, IFUs, and PILs.

Miranda has a bachelor’s degree in Dutch law and a master’s degree in translation, specialising in legal translation, from Leiden University. She also completed an elective course in French language acquisition during her studies.

Miranda is a native speaker of English and Dutch.

As Quality Assurance Editor, Jowen performs language and quality checks on an array of translated texts, including website texts, commercial texts, IFUs for medical devices and clinical studies. Additionally, they check whether SPCs and PILs conform to the EMA QRD templates.

Jowen has studied Biology (BSc) and Translation (MA) and has been working in the translation industry since July 2021, where they started out as a translator. They gained an abundance of biological knowledge and completed a specialisation in medical translation during their education, which has made them fully able to comprehend complex biomedical texts. Jowen started working at MediLingua in June 2022.

Jowen is fluent in both Dutch and English and is interested in Scandinavian languages.

As a QA Editor, Francesca revises a large variety of texts and performs QA checks on clinical trials, websites, commercial material, IFUs, SPCs and PILs.

She has been working in the localisation industry since 2010 as a transcreator, content writer and project manager, specialising in the marketing, audiovisual and publishing industries.

An Italian native speaker, Francesca holds a Master’s degree in Literary Translation from Milan’s Civica Scuola Interpreti e Traduttori (a partner of Strasbourg University), where she studied English, Dutch and French. She also has an N4 level in Japanese and has been enrolled in a small group course since late 2019.

Annemarie est traductrice diplômée de l’Université d’Amsterdam. Après ses études, elle a été traductrice, relectrice et comptable dans une société de traduction internationale, au sein de laquelle elle a également suivi un cours de management.

Depuis 1998, elle est gestionnaire de projets chez MediLingua et s’occupe principalement de tous les textes concernant les essais cliniques et les dispositifs médicaux. Traductrice assermentée pour le néerlandais et l’anglais, elle a suivi une formation à la traduction médicale et pharmaceutique en 2011, ainsi qu’une mineure en relecture de publications scientifiques.

Annemarie est bilingue en néerlandais et en anglais. Elle parle aussi espagnol, français et allemand et apprend actuellement le portugais.

Esther revises a great variety of texts and performs QA checks. She has experience with working on clinical trials, websites, commercial material, IFUs, SPCs, PILs and checking whether texts comply with QRD templates issued by EMA.

She has been working in the translation industry since 2011, predominantly as a translator and reviser. Before that she studied at University College London and obtained a Master’s degree in Translation Theory and Practice. She has successfully completed several French courses as well as a beginner’s Italian course, a minor in literary translation and various courses on audiovisual translation. She is also a sworn translator.

Esther is a native Dutch speaker, fluent in English and at B2 level in French.

Depuis 2000, il assure l’assistance technique, la gestion de projets et les travaux de mise en page sur ordinateur (PAO) chez MediLingua.

Britannique d’origine, diplômé de civilisation et politique européennes à l’Université du Kent, Justin a aussi vécu en France et en Belgique Il a travaillé comme relecteur et rédacteur technique et comme gestionnaire de projets dans différentes agences de traduction internationales.

Justin parle anglais, néerlandais et français.

Jelle has been working as a Project Manager at MediLingua since 2022 and manages projects related to dentistry.

He holds a college degree in Biotechnology, majoring in Forensic Sciences, a university degree in Scandinavian Languages and Cultures, with Swedish as main language, and a master's degree in Translation Studies. He speaks Dutch, English and Swedish, can also read and understand Frisian, Danish, Norwegian and German and is learning the basics of Japanese. With a combination of these Alpha and Beta diplomas, he feels completely at home at MediLingua.

Mischa has been active in the translation sector since 2000, mainly as a translator/reviewer, dealing with a variety of text types, including ICFs, product information and package leaflet texts, as well as commercial texts and websites. His duties also include QA checks and checking product information texts for compliance with the applicable EMA QRD templates. Mischa is fluent in Dutch and English.

Mary a étudié la rédaction technique à l’Université Purdue, à West Lafayette (Indiana) aux États-Unis. Arrivée aux Pays-Bas dans le cadre d’un échange universitaire, elle a été gestionnaire de clientèle pour les projets informatiques dans une société de traduction internationale.

Elle est gestionnaire de projets chez MediLingua depuis 1998. Elle s’occupe principalement des projets d’orthopédie et d’implantologie dentaire. Elle a suivi des cours sur les technologies de l’orthopédie à l’Université de Dundee.

Mary est de langue maternelle anglaise ; elle parle couramment néerlandais et se situe au niveau B2 en espagnol et en français.

Wytze has been working at MediLingua as a Quality Assurance Editor since January 2022. He works on a variety of medical texts in a multitude of languages.

He has studied Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University and has developed a broad interest in the world’s languages, and those belonging to the Indo-European language family in particular. He completed an Italian language course in Rome and is always improving his skills in some language or other.

Wytze is fluent in Frisian, Dutch and English.

Laureen has been working as a Project Manager at MediLingua since 2022 and she manages projects related to dentistry.

She holds a university degree in Japanese studies, Asian Studies, and is currently finishing her master’s in Translation Studies. She speaks Dutch, English, and has a N2 level in Japanese.

Agnita est arrivé chez MediLingua en septembre 2001, après une carrière de directrice de rédaction dans une grande maison d’éditions médicales. Elle a étudié l’anglais, le français et l’espagnol à l’Université Libre d’Amsterdam. Elle est traductrice assermentée pour le néerlandais et l’anglais. Elle a travaillé à Londres pendant trois ans comme rédactrice et traductrice technique dans une société de technologies publicitaires.

Elle a passé un diplôme de traduction médicale et pharmaceutique en 2011, une mineure en relecture de publications scientifiques en 2013 et une mineure en transcréation (le processus d’adaptation d’un message d’une langue à une autre en conservant l’intention, le style, le ton et le contexte) en 2016.

En tant que gestionnaire de projets, elle s’occupe surtout de textes concernant tous les aspects des essais de médicaments et des documents réglementaires pour les médicaments et les agents radiopharmaceutiques.

Agnita parle néerlandais, anglais, français, espagnol et allemand.