Our history
Translexis Ltd was founded in 1986 by Niki Watts, already an experienced Greek translator, to offer high quality Greek language services.
She was later joined by Quentin, who with a background in chemistry and lengthy experience in the pharmaceutical industry, helped strengthen the company's resources in technical translation from Greek into English.
The company is based in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, a small market town about 12 miles northwest of the university city of Cambridge.
Our language services
Our core business is translation from Greek into English and English into Greek.
From time to time, Translexis has also been involved in publishing and has acted as a consultant to major publishers such as Oxford University Press and HarperCollins Publishers.
Niki has also written a number of books on Modern Greek, for details see Greek books.
Our clients
Our clients range from private individuals to major multinationals and we are privileged to include among our customers leading companies in manufacturing, services, health care and the financial sector in both the UK and worldwide. We also work for public sector organisations and act as subcontractors to a number of general and specialist translation companies.
The nature of our clients' business demands that we take confidentiality and security of data very seriously. For example the workstations we use for translation have no internet connection and files that need to be on servers connected to the internet for communication purposes are promptly deleted when no longer required.
Whilst we recognise our professional obligation not to reveal our clients' identities or confidential information and undertake this obligation as a matter of course, we are always ready to enter into any reasonable formal secrecy agreement.
The people
Niki Watts
Niki has a first degree in Education and English as well as an MA in Education and an early background in teaching. She has been translating into her native Greek for over 20 years; she works in a number of specialist areas including engineering, pharmaceuticals, general commercial texts, advertising and marketing.
Niki has also written a number of books including the Greek Folk Songs as part of the series Studies in Modern Greek of which she was series editor, phrase books and two introductory courses to the Greek language. She also acted as a consultant for the new Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, a qualified Member of the Institute of Translation & Interpreting and a Member of the Translators Association.
Quentin Watts
Quentin graduated in chemistry and after a period of research in organic synthesis and teaching, he worked for many years in the pharmaceutical industry in various functions including sales and marketing, clinical trials administration and business development including patent licensing and acquisitions.
He has been translating from Greek into English for over 15 years and is a qualified Member of the Institute of Translation & Interpreting.
Richard Watts
Richard runs the information technology that underpins the technical aspects of Translexis's business; he has over ten years' experience dealing with various representations of the Greek language and is involved with various technology companies in and around Cambridge.
Richard holds an MA and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, and among other things is involved in Deadage Design, the company behind this website.