TMServe is a Peoples Company. As a bespoke client-centered service provider, what we do, what we are and what we can do is based on the people that make up our company and work with us.  That is why we try to be the best and constantly improve ourselves, to select and work with the best in their field, to have a strong team spirit and passion with what we do, and to work very closely with our clients on a personal level.  Since the demands, in volume and subject matter, are varied and we have to depend at times on trusted subcontractors that are experts in their field, we do have a small internal full-time team the main core of which is presented below:

Costas Nadalis the Founder, Major Shareholder, and General Manager of TMServe was born in Athens, Greece in 1959. He studied Math and Physics in England, and Archaeology and Computer Science in Canada (McGill University). Through the years he has participated in numerous seminars on Project Management, Sales & Marketing, and various IT topics. Nowadays, he teaches and participates in seminars, conferences and events relating to translation, localisation, project management and translation tools.

He started his carrier at ORCO S.A. in 1987 as IT Specialist and Consultant and was responsible for the IT infrastructure of the company and served as the main figure behind a number of SW development and IT-related projects and studies. He participated and carried out a series of organization and computerization studies for major clients, acquiring specialisation in the air transport organisation and IT systems.

He has been involved in the technical translation and software localisation business since 1989, initially as Project and Systems Manager for the IBM localisation projects and later on, for all major technical translation and localisation clients including Microsoft, HP and Oracle. He showed special interest in the use of Computer-Aided Translation Tools from the early 90’s and has provided technical support and training (Certified SDL Trados trainer) to Trados users since 2002. He was Head of the Translation and Localization Department and Vice President of ORCO S.A. until 2007 and a member of the Board of Directors until 2008.

Since 2008 he is offering his services as an independent technical consultant, developer and instructor to the greater translation and localization sector in Greece and abroad through his company TMServe.

He specialises in technical translation and localization-related issues, project setup, process optimization, project monitoring and control, creation and maintenance of translation memories and terminology databases with the selection and use of the most appropriate per case tools, offering technical support and consulting to TMServe clients.
He is teaching CAT tools (at ORCO S.A. and in the Master in Translation program of the Hellenic American University), translation and localization project management (at meta|φραση school of translation studies) and Machine Translation (at Dimetra Academy). He also designs and delivers ad hoc client-specific training on tools and localization topics. Costas Nadalis is a Certified SDL Trados Trainer since 2002, and a Memsource Certified Trainer since 2016.
Finally, he is designing and developing various client-specific translation-related applications for process automation, and in the areas of pre and post translation, file processing, translation QA and PM, translation memory and terminology, project creation, monitoring, accounting etc. Costas Nadalis is an SDL Beta Tester and an active developer of the SDL App Store (second prize for most downloaded free application in 2011). See the SW Tools section for relevant information.

Georgia Papaspyrou, Shareholder and Senior Software Engineer of TMServe was born in Athens Greece in 1994. She studied Informatics and Telecommunications in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and extended her knowledge through seminars and conferences in the IT and accounting sector.

She started working in the family business, mainly assisting in the implementation phase of computerizations studies by installing and configuring HW and SW for clients as well as by developing software utilities. Georgia also worked for a year (2017) as an executive assistant in Enarxi Business Solutions were among her other duties she was involved in implementing and supporting accounting processes for clients.

She joined TMServe in 2018 and since then she has been involved in the analysis and design of automation processes as well as in the development of relevant SW solutions.  Georgia is also responsible for the support of current clients as well as the updates and support of existing TMServe applications.

Georgia, in addition, is responsible for monitoring the company’s budget and cashflow and assists accounting and management in financial matters.