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Our Team

We believe that good teamwork is essential for creating the intellectual climate for providing consistently reliable, high-quality translations and for sound project management. This coupled with the requirement for induction training of new staff and on-going training of existing employees means that becoming a "virtual company", like so many of our competitors would not be appropriate for us. Our office provides a pleasant working environment where we can foster good teamwork to provide you with a superior service!

Meet the team:

Office Manager - Dorota Swiatek
Dorota comes from Poland where she studied Applied Linguistics at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. She speaks Polish, English and German fluently and also has excellent French and Russian. She’s responsible for the smooth running of our office and also manages our translator network.
Project Manager - Renata Simson
Renata also comes from Poland and studied German language & literature at the University of Gdansk. She worked for a number of years as an in-house translator for a German-Polish telecoms company and then as a freelance translator. She is our second project manager and advises us on all matters to do with the Polish language.
Accounts Executive - Jan Carrington
Jan is our longest-serving member of staff and brings many years of experience in accounts administration. She's responsible for issuing client invoices, paying our translators and the general running of our accounts department.

Staff Translator - Peter Robbins

Peter studied French & German at Oxford University. Following a spell in France as an English Language Teaching Assistant, he joined us in May 2008 as a trainee translator for German & French to English.
Translation consultant and proofreader - Ulrich Guettinger
In the early 1970s, Ulrich, who is a German speaker, moved from Switzerland to London where he completed his studies with a First Class Honours Degree in French. He joined D.F. Long & Co (Translations) Ltd in 1981 and later bought the company. He now works part-time as a translation consultant and specialises in the revision of French and German financial translations.
Founder and Managing Director - Andrew Schlich
Andrew graduated in Modern Languages at Oxford University. He set up AST after spotting a gap in the market for premium quality translations into English for German and Swiss multinationals. Since then he has successfully transformed AST into a full-service translation company with a reputation for top quality in any language combination.


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