Our Translators

Experience and qualifications

Our translators:

are all native English speakers, some native British and some native American speakers;

have university degrees;

live in Italy or have spent a minimum of five years living there and most for considerably longer;

have experience and expertise in translating financial and legal and corporate affairs documents;

have well over ten years experience as translators, most have many more.

Most have translated for JDFT for five years or longer.

Experience is extremely important when it comes to translation. The latest scientific research into cognitive skills shows that while other skills decline with age, verbal ability increases constantly. The learning curve for translation never flattens or falls, it rises steadily as increasingly more experience is gained. Our translators are all at the height of their profession.

Our Translators

James Davis BA (Hons), MITI

James is the Managing Director of JDFT and also its lead translator.

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Dominic Currie Bsc, Msc.

Dominic is a translator with over 16 years’ experience.

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Michael Pawlik BA

Michael has been a full-time freelance translator for over 15 years.

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Sally Winch BA (Hons) Italian

Sally has 35 years’ translation experience.

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James Davis BA (Hons), MITI

James is the Managing Director of JDFT and also its lead translator. Over the last twenty years he has translated for multinational compaines and a major Italian bank specialising in finance and legal and corporate affairs. Prior to that he gained experience in a broad range of subjects, including art (PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea), urban planning, sociology, economics, civil engineering (Pietro Lunardi, former minister of infrastructures and transport) and wire and cable manufacturing. Having lived and worked in Milan for over thirty years, in 2014 he moved to the Seychelles where his wife was born. In the internet age, global communications are no problem.

Email: jamesdavis@jdft.co.uk

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References and testimonials

“For many years now, James Davis has translated the separate financial reports of the parent of the group, Recordati Spa. Jim is not only a reliable and accurate translator, but has always been attentive to the company’s needs and in this sense he has always been very helpful in terms of making time to quickly translate last-minute changes before financial reports are submitted to the board. Also in my opinion he provides a service with a good cost quality ratio.”

– Giorgio Montuori
Director of Finance Recordati Spa (Separate financial reports of the Parent Recordati Spa)

“Jim is a brilliant professional, passionate about his work, with boundless curiosity. He gets straight to the heart of a subject, understands the nuances and renders the concepts clearly and effectively. His is not a translation, it is a joint enterprise.”

– Donato Berardi
Partner REF Ricerche

“Excellent translator: serious, precise and first class prose.”

– Giovanna Maria Fossa
Claudio Boschiroli, Partners at BFP – Commercialisti Associati (firm of Accountants)

“I had the opportunity of testing James Davis’ skill in translating different texts when I needed an English translation of an Italian project on world access to energy, something that had to be precise for specialists and attractive for common readers as well. Quite a successful and also pleasant experience.”

– Pippo Ranci
Former president of the Supervisory Board of A2A spa, an Italian utility