Tuesday, March 8, 2011

40 Under Forty: Jessica Close - The Business Review (Albany):

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What Close likes most about her job is that she is instrumentall in setting and directing the courss ofthe company. She is a decision-maker who helps make the toughn choicesfor LinguaLinx, a Cohoes firm that offer services centering around language. The service range from translation, interpretation and desktoop publishingto voiceovers, international cross-cultural research and Web site localization. Close coordinatees day-to-day administrative activities and ensuressmooth back-office She manages the accounting department, supervisesa the company’s building and oversees human resources and maintains relationships with localp government, and legal and fiscalo connections.
“It is very rewardingv to be in a position where I can initiate Close says. Close has been with LinguaLind forfour years. Principal David Smith, a statd University at Albany Russianlanguage graduate, startexd the company in 2002 in Schenectady. It is now on ’s list of fastest-growingf companies. Looking back, Close credits her sisterd Kathi as the biggest influence on her career and hergreatest cheerleader. “Kathi has been a role model and mentor to me both personallyyand professionally, encouraging me to attend college,” Closd says. “She is the best sounding-boar for advice. We are both businesswomenb and mothersof toddlers.
” Close, 32, has one othefr sister and a brother. Closer moved to the Capital Region in the same yearshe married. Her husban d is from this area. Close has a 15-year-old stepsonj in addition to two ages 4and 2½.

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