MONTEREY, Calif., Oct. 13, 2011 — Language Line Services, the global leader in interpretation and translation services, announced today it named Robert Koen new vice president and general manager for General Market Sales.
"As we further strengthen our management team, we wanted someone with extensive expertise in building strong partnerships for business growth," said Louis F. Provenzano, Jr., president & CEO of Language Line Services. "Robert is forward-thinking and has a proven record of success in sales leadership, new and international market penetration, business development, account management, consultative selling and negotiation. We believe he is the perfect leader to help drive our expansion."
Most recently, Robert led the System Integrator channel for Alcatel Lucent — Enterprise/Genesys Group as senior director of Channel Sales of the Americas, where he was instrumental in re-defining and implementing the group's partner strategy. Robert helped Alcatel Lucent dramatically increase its revenue generated through partners in North America, and his teams helped close and manage key enterprise deals with Fortune 100 accounts and local and federal government agencies.
With a 15-year-plus track record driving revenue and business expansion with partners and alliances, Robert joins Language Line Services and its executive team and will oversee the company's General Markets, Government and Indirect sales teams.
Originally from South Africa, Robert managed and grew the distribution business for Lotus/IBM. He then relocated to the United Kingdom while with IBM and joined the marketing team for IBM's global strategic alliances. During his long tenure with IBM, he delivered revenue through partners and alliances in more than 30 countries.
Robert earned his Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and his Master of Marketing from Manchester Business School in the United Kingdom.
About Language Line Services
Language Line Services, the global leader in telephone interpreting and language solutions, serves clients in government, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, utilities, insurance and many other industries by quickly connecting them to their customers, patients and sales prospects in more than 170 spoken languages as well as American Sign Language (ASL) and Mexican Sign Language (LSM). Language Line Services is recognized as a trusted partner to thousands of public and private organizations throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, providing easy access to the industry's fastest language interpreting service at highly competitive rates. For more information about Language Line Services' suite of telephone, on-site and video interpreting, document translation, interpreter assessment and training programs, please call (800) 752-6096 or visit http://www.languageline.com.
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Carla Collado
Olmstead Williams Communications
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