USA
Management
General
October 2013
Vol. 7, No. 25, Autumn 2013
Chanin Ballance
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Chanin Ballance, CEO, VIA brings years of experience in technology, business management and marketing to her role as CEO at VIA. She has spearheaded VIA’s constant advance into new technological landscapes, from mobile training solutions, machine and hybrid translation to customized multilingual product launches in 32 countries. Prior to VIA, Chanin co-founded The Language Company, a language and cross-cultural training school and translation service, where she was responsible for general management and finance, before selling the school to Berlitz. Chanin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Science from Marylhurst College and completed graduate work in Biochemistry at Portland State University. She also completed executive management studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Chanin has studied five foreign languages and has sat on the board of the American Marketing Association and Starve Ups, a non-profit entrepreneur group. She is an active member of YPO and WBENC, and has also been published in prominent industry publications like Compliance & Ethics Professional, Chief Learning Officer, Inside Healthcare, Inc. Magazine and more.
VIA, Inc.
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VIA helps companies to create, culturally align and monitor global content across people, channels and geographies, delivering normally disparate activities such as eLearning, translation and community insights under one umbrella. VIA’s specialized legal division provides accurate legal translation and award-winning web, game-based and mobile training solutions for global organizations. With a global network of over 5,000 legal translators, bilingual attorneys, instructional designers and engineers, VIA Legal uses its in-depth legal industry knowledge, legal specific process, experience and scalability to seamlessly partner with in-house legal departments of large multinational corporations, including Cisco, HP, Intel, Expedia, Nike, St. Jude Medical and more. Corporate Headquarters are located at 700 SW Taylor Street, Suite 300 Portland, OR 97205-3016. For more information, visit www.viadelivers.com or call 503-243-2007.
USA
Management
General
October 2013
Vol. 7, No. 25, Autumn 2013