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Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Operates a family of companies that offer translation, interpretation and other global business services in over 170 languages.

Liz Elting is a New York-based entrepreneur. She is co-founder and co-CEO of TransPerfect, the world's largest privately owned language services and technology solutions company. The daughter of a successful businessman, Elting learned quite a bit about the entrepreneurial spirit from watching her father, who retired as the CEO of Grey Canada. The family moved around a great deal during her childhood, igniting Elting's passion for international business as well as foreign languages; she studied four. Before turning 25, Elting had lived, studied, and worked in the US, Canada, Portugal, Venezuela, and Spain. Elting received her BA in Modern Languages and Literatures from Trinity College. After graduation, she spent three years working at translation company Euramerica (later acquired by Berlitz), opening her eyes to the industry. She returned to school to obtain her MBA in Finance and International Business from New York University's Stern School of Business. Since co-founding TransPerfect in 1992, Elting has served as President and Co-CEO and as the company has grown, she continues to play a key role in all aspects of day-to-day operations. Elting is profiled in several books, including The New York Times bestseller "Succeed by Your Own Terms"​ (McGraw-Hill), and is featured regularly in the media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Huffington Post, and Crain's New York Business. TransPerfect has been named to the Inc. 5000 list eight times, has ranked among the “Largest Privately Held Companies” by Crain’s New York Business nine years running, and was named “Best Translation and Localization Service” by Elearning! magazine the past three years. Elting was honored with the "Distinguished Alumnae" award from NYU Stern's Women in Business, named to Diversity Journal’s 10th Annual "Women Worth Watching” list in 2011, and recognized as “Woman of the Year” by American Express and Entrepreneur magazine in 2004, among others.