Over 10 Years of Creating Satisfied Customers

Founded in 1999, Straker is a privately held company with offices in the USA, Europe and Australasia. We have developed world leading technology that is transforming the translation industry.  We have a global client base and  world leading multilingual and translation technology that gives us the ability to deliver low cost, high quality translations with the shortest turnaround.  We offer organisations the lowest cost and fastest route to get documents and content translated by humans, to build multilingual web sites and portals, and tools and applications to streamline the translation process. Straker's CMS (ShadoCMS) is also the easiest way to build content managed multilingual websites.

Our unique pay-per-hour tranlsation model is a world first and enables clients to significantly drop their ongoing translation costs as well as simplifiying the translation process. We were asked to present our translations by the hour model at the premier localization event  the TAUS Executive Forum in Barcelona,  June 2011 http://www.translationautomation.com/executive-forums/barcelona-2011-overview.html.

Events

Ad-tech London 21-22nd September 2011  http://www.ad-techlondon.co.uk/

Adobe MAX Los Angeles   Oct 1-5 2011 http://max.adobe.com/ 

Management Team

• Grant Straker - CEO

  

  Programmer, Engineer, Paratrooper, Ironman, Volunteer Fire Fighter, Musician and Dad - Grant wears many hats and has had an incredibly varied set of experiences over the past 20 years. As one of the founders of Straker, Grants wide ranging experiences and skills places him in an ideal position to drive the growth of Straker as it continues to grow its Global presence.

• David Sowerby - VP Sales & Marketing

  

  David has over 10 years experience in the Internet and tech industry. David is a Director in Straker and founder of Sportsys Pty Ltd. David's background in statistics, data analysis and a strong entrepreneurial drive has placed him in an ideal position to help accelerate the growth of a number of early stage ventures. He has proven experience in building businesses and has been directly responsible for growing a number of companies from both startup phase or as startup units within larger organizations. David has an Undergraduate Degree in Science from the University of Queensland, a Graduate Diploma in Management from CQU and a Masters of Business Administration from Trinity College Dublin

• Indy Nagpal - CTO

  

  Indiver (Indy) has been working in the area of web application development for over 13 years. During this time, he has been i  nvolved with various companies across different parts of the world -- India, Canada and New Zealand. Over the years, Indy has worked in different aspects of software development -- programming, project management, content development, training and consulting. As the CTO of Straker, Indy is responsible for setting the technical direction of the company across its ShadoCMS and ZoomFlex product sets. Indy is a certified Adobe trainer and spends more and more time on a plane training and meeting new clients and partners all over the world.

• Merryn Straker - VP Operations

  

  In her role as GM Merryn looks after the day-to-day running of Straker and makes sure that the every touchpoint with the company runs smoothly from Client Projects to Finance and everything in between  After completing a Bachelor of Management Studies at Waikato University (1992), majoring in Management and HR, Merryn started work at CLEAR Communications, where she undertook a variety of  administration, supervision and customer service roles. Following that experience, Merryn joined the pharmaceutical sector working as a Marketing Assistant before being promoted to a Product Manager position at Amcal Chemists

• Steve Donovan - Financial Director

  

  Steve is a former partner of Ernst & Young. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the U.K. and has operated within the IT and finance industry in New Zealand for a number of years. Steve acts as Strakers Finance Director and has been working with technology companies across a range of industries.
  Steve sits on the board of several comanies including Software accounting firm Greentree and food company EasyYo