INTERSTENO BOARD

Fausto Ramondelli - President (I)

Fausto Ramondelli, born in 1959, is a parliamentary reporter at the Italian Senate and drafts the summary bulletin for the Constitutional Affairs Committee.

He entered Intersteno competitions since 1985 and led the Italian National Group for several years. Participated actively to the policies of Federation, founding the Intersteno Parliamentary Reporters' Section in 1993 and elaborating the new Statute in 2003.

He served as President (2001-2003) and Vice President (2003-2005).

Member of the Italian Academy "Giuseppe Aliprandi", he taught the shorthand method "Michela" and published press articles and a book on professional matters. Recently he has investigated the field of distance reporting, subtitling and other newer advanced services.

Vice President - Jaroslav Zaviacic (Cz)

12.08. 1939: born in Cejc, Czeck Republic.

1958: as student Commercial Academy Hodonin champion keyboarding of  Czechoslovak schools.

1962-1969: head of the technical department (stenographers, typists and teleprinters) of the "Rude Pravo", at that moment the most important newspaper of Czechoslovakia. Due to the resistance of this newsaper to the Soviet occuptation he lost this job. Consequently he was not allowed to attend the world championships in Brussels in 1971.

1965: world vice-champion keyboarding.

1971-1979: coach of the Austrian keyboarding team ; developed collective and distance training methods for keyboarding.

1981-1991: consultant and trainer for electronic typewriers at IBM Chechoslovakia.

1989 and 1991: published textbooks for programmed learning keyboarding, called the ZAV-method, later on transfered to e-learning.

Since 1990: he and Helena Matouskova (world champion) direct the ZAV internet-school for learning keyboarding in the languages Czech, German, Polish and Slovak. Every year there are about 25.000 students. The best of them represent the Czech Republic in the world championships.

1998: founded Interinfo CZ, which is the Czech National Group of Intersteno und unites schools, teachers and competitors.

Since 2000: the ZAV-school organizes international competitions on internet.

2003: honorary member of the "Accademia Giuseppe Aliprandi - Multimedialità della scrittura e dell'informazione" in Florence.

2005: was nominated as president of Intersteno. He organized the Congress held in Prague in 2007 and on that occasion was elected Vice-Presidente. The chair was again confirmed in Beijing 2009 and in Paris 2011.

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Vice President - Mark Golden (USA)

Mark J. Golden was appointed Vice-President of Intersteno at the Assembly in Paris 2011. He has thirty-years experience managing and leading and trade associations. Before joining the NCRA staff in December 1998, Mr. Golden spent eight years with the Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA), Washington, D.C., and 12 years with the Association of Telemessaging Services International, Alexandria, Virginia. Long active in the association community, Mr. Golden is a Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Center for Association Leadership and has served in numerous capacities with the American Society of Association Executives. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on strategic planning, governance and leadership development.

msic@ncrahq.org

Danny Devriendt - Secretary Treasurer (B)

Danny Devriendt is in daily life head of the ICT and informatics teacher training section at the Artevelde University College Ghent (Belgium) [www.arteveldehs.be] and president of the Academie voor Bureauwetenschappen [www.abw.be], an organization that groups about 300 teachers in ICT, especially word processing. He's author of a lot of school books in word processing and webdesign [www.wwwsoft.be] and ICT-teacher in a commercial school in Brugge [www.sintjozefbrugge.be]. Since 1977 he participates on regular base at INTERSTENO-congresses, was secretary-general (2001-2003) and is since 2003, according to the new constitution, secretary-treasurer of Intersteno. He was again nominated Secretary Treasurer by the Assembly in Vienna 2005, Prague 2007 , Beijing 2009 and Paris 2011. From now on he is also coordinator of the organization committee of the 49th INTERSTENO congress that will be held in Ghent (Belgium).

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Georgette Sante - Jury President (B)

After some years as a multilingual secretary, Georgette Sante became a teacher for the Belgian French Community (Official secondary teaching in South Belgium). As a member of the APSB (Teachers' Association for Office and Secretariat), she has taken part in the organization of championships for students; one of them was held in her school (Esneux in 1989).

Being interested in computers, she rapidly introduced her students to Wordprocessing (instead of only typewriting) rather than waiting for the official school programs to incorporate itc into the official programs. In 1990, with some other APSB-teachers, she organized the first contest of word processing.

In 1991, she joins the Intersteno Belgium team and takes part in the organization of the 39e Intersteno congress. In 1999, she represents Belgium at the Intersteno Central Committee in Vienna.

Since this period, according to the linguistic agreements for Belgium, she is the Belgian official delegate, alternatively with a Dutch-speaking delegate; however, during the years "without mandate", she takes part in the activities of the association, attends congresses and committee meetings.

According to the new structure of Intersteno Jury, she becomes, in September 2006, coordinator of the Professional Wordprocessing championship and in July 2007 was named Jury President at the Congress in Prague. Thanks to her successful work, whe was again confirmed in this Chair by the Beijing and Paris Councils.

g.sante@scarlet.be

Jean-Charles Le Masson (F) - Chairman of the Scientific Committee

Other information will be added shortly.