David Currie joins Elanex as Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Development

Elanex, Inc. today announces that David Currie, a seasoned and successful entrepreneur, has joined as Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Development.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 24, 2008 -- Elanex, Inc. today announces that David Currie has joined Elanex as SVP of Product Strategy and Development. David brings 25 years of experience building highly successful managed services, enterprise applications and web services to his new role.

As co-founder and CEO of ScanAlert, David helped to create what is now the most recognized trustmark in the world, HackerSafe™. David was instrumental in developing the underlying vulnerability scanning platform, user interface and the trust mark itself. David served on the board of ScanAlert until its successful acquisition by McAfee in January of 2008.

Previously, as a consultant to the International Finance Corporation, David developed localization technology and tools for the SME Toolkit, a global business portal currently spanning 30 countries and 14 languages. As co-founder and COO of Etera Systems, David developed the world's first managed application services platform and was key in negotiating a successful merger with Corio, Inc. In his career, David has been involved with numerous startups, has served as founder, director, CEO, COO, CTO, CIO or consultant in companies ranging in size from zero to $6B in revenue, and has served on multiple corporate boards. David has called the US, England and France home, and has led technology and product development projects across North America, China (PRC), Western, Central and Eastern Europe, India, Indonesia and the Balkans.

"We are extremely pleased to have a person of David's caliber driving our product strategy," said Jonathan Kirk, CEO of Elanex. "As a pioneer in language translation technologies, Elanex depends on continuous innovation to offer the best possible quality and value to our clients. Elanex is in a period of rapid global expansion, and David brings renewed focus to building out our product portfolio. Initially, David will be focusing on the Translation Search Engine and Elanex CROWD™, both of which have fantastic potential. In addition to these, Elanex will be introducing a range of new enabling technologies, products, and services over the next 24 months.

"I enjoy solving tough problems," says David, "and there are none more challenging than those being driven by the unprecedented pace of economic, political and social globalization. Elanex impresses me as a nimble technology-based translation company that is uniquely positioned to take full advantage of rapidly expanding opportunities in the market. I am very excited to be given a chance to work with such a creative team on great solutions like the Elanex Translation Search Engine and Elanex CROWD™. I believe these two products have the potential to bring high quality translations to a much larger market than is possible now."

ElanexCROWD™ is a crowdsourced translation solution which offers publishers, non-profits, social networks and others a full range of easy to implement hosted, un-moderated and moderated crowdsourcing solutions. ElanexCROWD™ will enable clients to access new markets, and will help to bridge the digital divide. ElanexCROWD™ is a trademark of Elanex Inc.

About Elanex. Elanex is a language translation services and technology company. We develop cutting-edge technology and combine it with our growing global network of 22,000 of the best available human translators, to provide top-quality translation at highly competitive prices. Elanex is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Silicon Valley, Albuquerque, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Sydney, Melbourne and Warsaw. For more information about Elanex visit us at Elanex Translation Services (http://www.elanex.com).

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