Maryse M. Benhoff

Maryse M. Benhoff is the President and Founder of BG Communications International Inc., a leading translation services provider headquartered in Montreal, Canada. She is recognized as a pioneer in the industry for introducing translation standards to Canada. In 2003, she was appointed as Canada’s official representative to the Comité Européen de Normalisation during the development of the European translation standard, EN 15038. In January 2018, she was elected as the International Chair of ISO’s TC37/SC5: Translation, interpreting and related technology for a six-year mandate. Maryse also serves on the Board of Directors of Canada’s national Language Industry Association (AILIA). Since its founding in 1994, BG Communications International Inc. has grown to be a major player in the world of translation, with a staff of 20 and a network of 2,500 translators worldwide working in 200 languages, and over 3,000 clients