Founding Partner and Chief Operations Officer for Responsive Translation, formerly 1-800-Translate. Leading provider of high-stakes translation for compliance-intensive industries. Special emphasis on educational assessments. Ranked first for client satisfaction globally.Responsible for managing company performance, productivity, quality and profitability; maintaining key relationships and ensuring we exceed client expectations, and assessing and implementing new technologies for continuous improvement.

Principal Partner of marketing and public relations firm with special emphasis on Japan-US business marketing and communications. Clients included Dentsu, Japan’s largest advertising agency, Fuji Sankei communications, Japan’s largest media group, the Foreign Ministry of Japan, Scientific American Magazine and leading names in Japanese industry and government. Highlights• Speechwriting for the Emperor of Japan, Prime Minister(s) of Japan, etc. • Speechwriting for Mario Cuomo, then Governor of New York State• Planning consumer marketing campaigns and developing pitches for the advertising industry.• Documentary development for PBS.• Feature film script consultant for Michael Douglas, Pegasus films.

Public affairs advisor to the Japanese government on US relations. Responsibilities included analysis of American news coverage of Japan, cultivating and facilitating positive press coverage of Japan, participation as American media analyst in policy planning at the ministerial level, and writing speeches for Japanese leadership, including Prime Ministers Nakasone and Takeshita and the Emperor of Japan.

Reporter in the New York Bureau of one of Japan's leading newspapers.