admundi PROFESSIONAL has been providing comprehensive foreign language services and top-quality language training since 1989. Founded by Neil van Siclen as a sole-proprietorship, admundi PROFESSIONAL has continued to develop. |
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Neil van Siclen As the founder and creative mind behind admundi PROFESSIONAL Neil has developed the areas “Business Services”, Translation and Interpreting” and “Language Holidays”. Neil van Siclen grew up in Boston, USA, and spent his first lengthy stay abroad in Zweibrücken in Germany, where he attended a local grammar school for a full school year. He then went on to study German and Economics in Minneapolis, Trier and Düsseldorf. After university, he qualified as a translator and interpreter and worked in private schools in Düsseldorf and later in Bremen before founding admundi Language Services. |
1989 | Neil van Siclen sets up business as a freelance translator and interpreter. |
1992 | admundi Language Services is founded |
1993 | the portfolio is extended to include foreign language courses |
1996 | the business expands further, offering study trips for people who wanted to focus on language for business and programs for pupils, students and trainees |
1998 | the pool of translators is enlarged and cross-cultural communication is added to the range of services offered |
2000 | moves to larger premises to cater for growing numbers |
2004 | moves into new premises near the University of Bremen |
2008 | Neil van Siclen appointed to the board of the Carl Schurz Deutsch-Amerikanischer Club Bremen e.V. (non-profit) |
2009 | company restructured to form two business fields with different foci: admundi LANGUAGE SERVICES offers language travel packages for the private individual and admundi PROFESSIONAL specialises in catering for the foreign language needs of companies |
2010 | Neil van Siclen nominated by the board to the position of President of the Carl Schurz German-American Club Bremen e.V. |