LISA Board Members

Bill Sullivan (IBM) has been the Strategic Advisor and a member of the executive committee of LISA since 2002. He has worked for the IBM Corporation for more than 32 years, the last 16 of which have been in the GILT arena. During that time he has worked with thousands of software and hardware teams for products as diverse as PDAs and mass spectrometers. Bill is currently IBM's company-wide Globalization Executive and is responsible for all aspects of product globalization; he leads IBM's worldwide team of globalization subject matter experts including the teams that develop the open source International Components for Unicode and leading-edge linguistic technologies. Bill is a graduate of Fordham University, with post-graduate degrees from Trinity College Dublin and New York University. Bill is a polyglot manqué: he speaks intelligible German, embarrassing French and laughable Japanese and Chinese.

You may contact Bill Sullivan at wjsullgo@lisaaway.org

Lyra Spratt-Manning (LS Manning & Associates and Interverbum) has worked in senior accounting and international corporate management roles for the past thirty years with fourteen years in the localization industry as COO and CEO for RWS Group LLC and currently as General Manager - Interverbum, USA-West. Ms. Spratt-Manning served six years as board member for the San Francisco Global Trade Council, financial adviser and board member to the Idaho Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and five years as financial advisory board member to LISA.

She is a financial and ISO registration consultant for LS Manning & Associates, and as GM for Interverbum USA - West works with clients to integrate emerging localization technology tools and processes to increase quality, reduce cost and time to market. She holds a B Sc in Accounting and is a certified ISO leader auditor.

You may contact Lyra Spratt-Manning at lyrago@lisaaway.org.

Bobby Liao (TIBCO Software, Inc.) is a senior product manager at TIBCO Software Inc., a provider of enterprise software solutions to over 3,000 customers worldwide. He has been responsible for product globalization and localization across all of TIBCO's product offerings for the past 4 years.

In addition to being the chief localization evangelist at TIBCO, Mr. Liao has also actively participated in LISA Forums as a speaker in Shanghai 2006 and Beijing 2007, as a program committee member for the China Focus Forum in 2007, as an invited participant at the LISA panel at the Third International Conference on TSTT in 2006 and Customer Advisory Board for BigWord in 2007.

As a senior member of the product management and strategy team, Mr. Liao also advises the executives on international product and market strategies with special focus on Asia. He works closely with the business teams and partners in the region.

Mr. Liao opened the doors for TIBCO to establish its China Development Center in Beijing with a local partner. He helped with the initial contacts and survey of potential partners.

Mr. Liao is multilingual and has worked professionally throughout North America and Asia; he is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese and English and is conversational in Spanish and Japanese. He has worked in the computer industry for over 16 years with extensive network of professional contacts. Mr. Liao received his MS in Computer Science and BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

You may contact Bobby Liao at bobbygo@lisaaway.org

Michael Anobile (LISA) is an international businessman with over 25 years experience in the IT sector. He received a Bachelors of Science degree in communications at Syracuse University, and participated in the Masters degree program in political communications at the University of Maryland. After relocating his family to Switzerland in 1980 to become European Training Manager for Exxon Office Systems, he subsequently held a number of European and Swiss senior management positions in the IT and language-technology industries, focusing on global business development and marketing.

A founding member of LISA, and the Managing Director from its inception, he is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Association including outreach programs to other standards organizations (E.g., ISO, Unicode, Openi18N, W3C, OASIS, etc.) and government agencies (E.g., US Department of Commerce, the DoD, FBI, NVTC, NSA along with various Asian, Canadian and European language technology and national standards and trade bodies) as well as its international forums, training programs and industry marketing and public relations projects.

You may contact Michael Anobile at mikego@lisaaway.org

Kurt Ramin is Commercial Director, IASCF, at the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in London, where he participated in the re-structuring and re-funding of the International Accounting Standards Committee into the current organization (www.iasb.org.uk). He currently also acts as Vice Chair, XBRL International (www.xbrl.org) to promote the use of this xml-based business reporting language. At the IASF he lead the effort to standardize and develop a 32-language glossary for accounting terminology. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS/IAS) are now accepted as Financial Reporting standards by over 90 countries and governments around the globe.

Formerly, he was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, New York, and CFO for several large international companies.

You may contact Kurt Ramin at kramingo@lisaaway.org.

Mrs. Alison Rowles-Anobile is the Director, Global Operations, The World Conservation Union (IUCN), located in Gland, Switzerland. She manages IUCN's global administrative services, including finance, legal and auditing, along with human resources, information management, performance assessment ensuring an effective and integrated worldwide cohesive set of support systems for operations throughout the organization.

She, formerly LISA's Controller and Business Manager, launched SMP Marketing Sarl in 1999 to provide localization industry marketing support through a virtual organization located on all continents. Prior to that she was Marketing and Business Consultant for Genevest, a high-technology investment fund, in addition to working with a variety of small entrepreneurial companies seeking growth opportunities and partnerships worldwide.

Her international experience also includes serving as Founder and Managing Director for Boxmart, SA, an international on-line trading network and working with a variety of global management and marketing positions with IT companies, including Exxon Office Systems, which first brought her to Geneva, Switzerland in 1980.

You may contact Alison Rowles at ahrowlesgo@lisaaway.org

Arnaud Daix is the business manager of the Application and Content Globalization (ACG) team in Hewlett-Packard Services. The team provides internationalization, localization, and global Enterprise Cataloguing and Publishing to both internal business units and external customers. It addresses product and software globalization challenges through an innovative approach including automation and offshore delivery capabilities.

Arnaud has been with HP since 1994, with responsibilities in Finance, Supply Chain, and Consulting both in the US and France. He's been in the localization business and ACG since 2000, handling business development and operations management.

You may contact Arnaud at arnaudgo@lisaaway.org.