Founders

MTM’s European founders and partners met during the 80s of the previous century. During those days, they already worked together in close collaboration on international translation projects for global companies such as IBM. In 1994, they decided to bundle their strengths and individual expertise to form one centralized project management office: MTM. MTM is now managed and owned by its Dutch co-founders. MTM can serve the international client from its Dutch office. The office is a local production site as well as a project management hub. We expect the client to outsource more work to translation providers who are able to offer maximum flexibility and added value at a competitive price. We are ready to face this challenge. We represent two decades of translation and localization experience and are able to convert this knowledge into practical and relevant solutions.

Current Management

Désirée van Driel Désirée started her career in 1984 at the IBM Translation Center in Amsterdam. She worked for many years as a senior project manager at IBM and later on at an international translation company, before she co-founded MTM in 1994. At MTM she is still in charge of project management and general operational affairs. She is one of the most experienced persons within the MTM network where it comes to running complex multilingual translations projects. Joop Janssen Joop started his career in 1987 at INK, the largest translation company in Western-Europe at the time. On behalf of INK, he worked at the IBM Translation Center in Amsterdam as a translator and project leader and later on as a project manager an productivity manager at the INK Headquarters. In 1994, he co- founded MTM. Joop is now in charge of project management and business development.