Management

Ralph Michael Strozza

Ralph Strozza is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Interpro Translation Solutions Inc., which he co-founded in 1995.

Ralph has over twenty years in the translation business. He began his career in 1982 while in graduate school by working as a translator and lexicographer for WCC (Weidner Communications Corporation, later changed to Worldwide Communications Corporation), at the time the leading developer of computer-assisted translation software and services. He then moved into system support, responsible for systems installation, training, and customer support.

In 1984, Ralph moved to Toulouse, France to assist in setting up WCC's European distribution channel. He returned to the US in 1985 and assumed the position of Vice President of Marketing and Sales for WCC.

In 1988, Ralph was hired by Intergraph Corporation in Huntsville, Alabama, to manage its Localization and Translation Department until 1989 when he moved back to Chicago after being hired by System Software Associates to establish and manage its in-house localization and translation department.

System Software Associates (then SSA, now Infor) was at the time the leading developer of System i-based ERP application and CASE tool software. Ralph was responsible for the release of SSA's flagship BPCS and AS/SET product lines in 20 languages. He left SSA in February 1995 to start operations at Interpro Translation Solutions.

Ralph received Bachelor of Science degrees in International Marketing and French, and a minor in Spanish from Northern Illinois University in 1981. He received his Master's Degree in French and Italian from Northwestern University in 1983. He is a native speaker of English, and is fluent in French, Italian, and Spanish.

Ralph and his wife Beatrice live in the western suburbs of Chicago with their two children.