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Lionbridge Expands Management Team to Support Increased Demand for Its Language Technology Platform and Community-Based Translation

Posted on: Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 08:30 CST

WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lionbridge (Nasdaq: LIOX), a leading provider of globalization and testing services, today announced that Yvonne Cekel has joined the Company as Vice President of SaaS and Communities. Cekel will lead and manage the Company's strategy for expanding and opening the Lionbridge language technology platform, including its advanced, web-architected translation memory technology, to clients and translators worldwide in a hosted managed service model.

Cekel brings more than 20 years of experience in building and growing successful go-to-market strategies for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and enterprise applications. Cekel spent her early career in the application development industry followed by almost a decade in language technology products and services including Machine Translation. She then worked for several years in the hosted information services business where she advanced both workflow specific solutions and embedded applications offered through subscription distribution models. Lionbridge will leverage her expertise to integrate, unify and market the Lionbridge technology platform to customers, translators and communities.

The Lionbridge language technology platform consists of Logoport(TM), a web-based translation memory technology and related linguistic production and quality assurance tools. This platform is now the world's largest, web-architected language platform with more than 52,000 individual client translation memories and 14,000 individual translators serving more than 700 clients. The Company also continued to improve the grid architecture of this platform to enable more than 2,000 concurrent users and 99.9% uptime. The Company is also scaling Freeway(TM), Lionbridge's free, web-based translation management platform.

Cekel will lead and expand Lionbridge's initiatives to provide the industry's only open, on-demand translation software that accelerates clients' time to global markets and lowers costs, without requiring costly software systems.

"Yvonne's extensive experience will enable us to drive the commercial scalability of Logoport and Freeway in the SaaS world while enabling us to further reduce costs," said Rory Cowan, CEO of Lionbridge. "With an impressive track record of developing and marketing SaaS based solutions, Yvonne has effectively grown revenues, developed international market strategies and developed channel marketing programs for leading technology and services organizations worldwide. This expertise, combined with her passion for innovation, will prove extremely valuable for expanding our market opportunities and defining future requirements for our growing language technology platform."

Most recently Cekel was Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for ClearPoint Metrics, a provider of performance management solutions. At ClearPoint, Cekel led strategic alliances with system integrators, launched new products and managed marketing programs and communications. Prior to ClearPoint, Cekel was Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for SoundBite Communications, a voice messaging company. She also spent several years with OneSource Information Services in several executive roles including President and General Manager and Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. At OneSource, she led the Company's go to market strategy, sales growth, product development and marketing. Prior to OneSource, Cekel was with Transparent Language, a leader in language technology and software, where she rose to become the Company's Executive Vice President and Board Member responsible for worldwide sales and marketing.

"Through the power of its next-generation language technology and its years of experience working with individual translators worldwide, Lionbridge is connecting the language technology 'cloud' with the community 'crowd' to create a new model for the delivery of language services," said Cekel. "With my experience in both language technology and hosted applications, I look forward to taking Lionbridge's strategy to the next level in order to provide new value for Lionbridge clients and translators worldwide."

The increased adoption of Lionbridge's technology platform is enabling the Company to increase its value to customers while reducing total costs. Lionbridge has reduced its headcount in high cost locales by over 100 over the past several months. In addition, the Company recently reduced its office and lease expense in one of its European locations and further eliminated overhead in another region.

About Lionbridge

Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) is a provider of globalization and offshoring services. Lionbridge combines global resources with proven program management methodologies to serve as an outsource partner throughout a client's product and content lifecycle -- from development to globalization, testing and maintenance. Global organizations rely on Lionbridge services to increase international market share, speed adoption of global products and content, and enhance their return on enterprise applications and IT system investments. Based in Waltham, Mass., Lionbridge maintains solution centers in 26 countries and provides services under the Lionbridge and VeriTest brands. To learn more, visit http://www.lionbridge.com.

SOURCE Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.

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