Meet the team

Rebecca spends most of her time managing multi-language translation projects for our clients in the technical and manufacturing sectors, as well as several EU institutions. She also dedicates time to working towards our ISO accreditation and has helped to arrange CPD training for the Wessex team to ensure we keep our skills in tip-top shape.

Having grown up in Belgium, Rebecca is our resident expert in Flemish and also speaks English and French. If that wasn’t impressive enough, she has also been learning Finnish!

In her spare time, Rebecca enjoys spending time out and about with her family, tending her allotment and meeting friends for cheese and wine.

Now an experienced member of the team, Emily manages a wide variety of translation projects, including highly specialised multi-language projects for our medical and technical clients all over the world. She is also the main contact for many of our German-speaking clients across Europe. German isn’t Emily’s only language though – she is a talented linguist and revises German, French and Spanish translations.

In her role as Production Manager, Emily is also responsible for supporting, mentoring and training our new team members.

When she isn’t working, Emily is an avid reader and theatregoer and also enjoys travelling, crafting, baking and gardening.

Anne-Marie manages some of our most specialised translation projects, including lengthy technical manuals for our clients in the manufacturing industry. A skilled linguist, she regularly carries out thorough revisions of translations in Spanish and French.

With her eye for detail, Anne-Marie also dedicates time to maintaining our Quality Management System and working towards our ISO accreditation.

Outside of Wessex Anne-Marie works as a freelance translator and reviser, and when she does find some free time she likes to play the piano and go to the theatre.

As a French native speaker, she focussed on managing and revising a wide range of translation projects from English into French.

Delphine still coordinates and revises French translation projects, although now from Wessex’s French office, which she set up in 1997 and has managed ever since.

In her role as French Office Manager, Delphine is the main point of contact for our existing French client base, while also attending trade shows and liaising with potential new clients.

Although based across the Channel, Delphine is an integral part of the Wessex team, and luckily enjoys the English sense of humour! In her spare time, Delphine is a keen swimmerand also enjoys spending time with her family and friends and decorating her home.

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David keeps himself mentally and physically active in his spare time with creative writing, reading, running and boxing!

Imogen has been learning from our in-house DTP experts, and now focusses on projects that involve typesetting, including technical manuals and marketing brochures.

Having lived in the French countryside during much of her childhood, Imogen is a keen linguist and speaks French and Spanish as well as her native English.

In her spare time Imogen enters dressage and show jumping competitions with her horse, Pinocchio.

Following a sharp rise in interpreting requirements, Eva took on the role of Interpreting Manager in 2011, arranging interpreters for both public and private sector requirements such as court hearings, social services and business meetings as well as simultaneous interpreting at conferences.

Nowadays, Eva splits her time equally between translation and interpreting projects and enjoys balancing the urgent and dynamic nature of interpreting assignments with the careful, meticulous planning of translation projects.

In her spare time, Eva enjoys listening to music and has a soft spot for J.S. Bach, Puccini and Beverley Knight – catching live concerts and operatic performances whenever she can. Eva also loves to spend time reading contemporary Czech literature in her native language.

Jonathan oversees all areas of the company and has built a close rapport with our clients in his native Switzerland. With Swiss-German as his native language, Jonathan can often be heard speaking his mother tongue to our Swiss-German clients, or anyone who’s willing to listen.

Jonathan enjoys managing complex translation projects, with a particular interest in website localisation, and has a colourful personality which keeps the rest of the team entertained.

Outside of Wessex, Jonathan enjoys music, gardening, cooking and spending time in the countryside.

He is a crucial cog in the Wessex Translations machine, being responsible for prompt submission of invoices to clients as well as timely payments to our freelance translators. This is something he knows our clients and providers appreciate and is something he and the rest of the Wessex team are very proud of. Steve is also our go-to person for all queries about money matters.

Outside of Wessex, Steve is a motorcycle enthusiast and has toured the UK and Europe with various motorcycle clubs. Steve also enjoys football, and despite having hung up his own goalie gloves, remains a keen football follower.

Nowadays, Daniel heads up the Production team and coordinates some of our most complex and time-sensitive translation projects, many of which are for our French client base. He specialises in finding solutions to software and workflow‑related challenges in order to ensure that clients can receive their translations in the format required while meeting their tight deadlines.

An enthusiastic linguist, Daniel still enjoys revising translations from French and Spanish into English and learning about the many industries in which our clients work.

Outside the office, Daniel can often be found on a long-distance hike along the south coast. He also enjoys music, the theatre and following baseball, cricket and football.

With his background in sales and marketing, Paul concentrates on business development, as well as bidding for public and private sector tenders. Although in the minority as a non-linguist, Paul enjoys contributing wherever he can to the life of the firm and putting his many years of experience in the industry to good use.

Now part time, Paul enjoys many hobbies including country sports, the local church, and his work as a governor of the local school. He also dedicates time to supporting NGOs in the Middle East peace process, through the sale of his paintings.

Robin oversees all areas of the company and has a passion for client and supplier engagement. You can often hear him on the phone to our oldest contacts with whom he has developed a close business relationship spanning decades.

He enjoys managing complex translation projects and approaches all work with a positive and ambitious attitude that rubs off on the rest of the team.

Outside of Wessex, Robin enjoys time with his family and recently dabbled in unicycling. He is even known to have won the odd baking competition.

With her previous experience as a technical translator of German and Italian into English, Chitika enjoys revising translations of mechanical texts and learning new terms and how things work in the process! She is also responsible for ensuring strict adherence to glossaries and style guides for our clients, including the European Institutions.

Outside of Wessex, Chitika is a keen birdwatcher and is currently learning how to identify the large variety of bird calls we can hear here in the UK countryside.