People

Muriel Jérôme-O’Keeffe

Founder

Ms. Muriel Jérôme-O’Keeffe is the founder and former CEO of JTG. She continues to play an integral role at JTG, lending her support and expertise as a Board Member from 2016 to April 2021. Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe now serves on the Board of Advisors to the CEO. She is a recognized leader in the language and localization industry and is frequently called upon to consult on language issues impacting national security.

Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe founded the company in 1995 to respond to a growing need for professionalization of the language industry and to promote the integration of technology with education and language services. In 1996, JTG developed the Concept of Operations for the first online university in South East Asia. This pioneering work in the field of e-learning highlights Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe’s vision. She expanded the company in 2003, adding government services as a new business line. Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe designed a number of best-of-breed methodologies to increase productivity and accuracy in the production of language products, as well as a process to test and measure linguistic performance ability in real time.

Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe served on the board of the American Translators Association (ATA), the largest trade association in the language industry, as Director and President. During her tenure, Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe launched the effort to develop National Translation User Standards. She served on the board of the American Foundation for Translation and Interpretation (AFTI) as Director and President, which afforded her the opportunity to sponsor investment in quality education for those responsible for the future of our national security efforts. In 2000, she was appointed to the board of Semantix (acquired by Convera), a company that specialized in cross-lingual processing and computational linguistics technology.

Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe graduated Summa Cum Laude in English and Linguistics from Université de Haute Normandie, Rouen, France – Maîtrise.

John Roppo

Board Member

Mr. Roppo has held senior financial and operating roles at several companies, including the CFO or COO position at seven companies ranging from startup to billion-dollar multinational. After graduating from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University with an M.S. in Industrial Administration, he started his career at Ford Motor Company as a financial analyst.  He progressed into senior roles in the U.S., Argentina, and Brazil, and the top financial positions at Jaguar Cars North America and Lincoln Mercury.  Since Ford, he has been CFO at closely held and private equity-sponsored companies and successfully completed the sale of three companies.  Most recently he has worked as a consultant and interim CFO.  Mr. Roppo is a CFA^Ò charterholder and Certified M&A Advisor™.