Alberto Balanza Martinez is a conference interpreter and translator born in Spain and resident in Malaysia since 1990; he has been in this line of work since his university days and has operated as interpreter in more than 300 events in seventeen countries, chiefly in Malaysia and Singapore but also in Australia, India, China, Denmark and many others.
Since 2001 he runs a Language Service Provider, B Lingo Communications Sdn Bhd, based in Kuala Lumpur and whose core business is and has always been verbal interpreting. Even the company’s entry in the Registrar of Companies ( RoC no. 201201019513 ) merely reads: “ to provide interpretation services” as the sole purpose of the organization.
Here are some key facts and milestones in Alberto’s career as a company director and as interpreter
Conferences/Workshops Attended Asian Translators Forum VI, November 2010, Macao, S.A.R 13th International Conference on Translation, July 2011, Shah Alam, Malaysia Proz.com International Conference, June 2013, Porto, Portugal Asian Translators Forum VII, August 2013, Penang, Malaysia Cambridge Conference Interpreting Course, August 2017, UK Translation and Technology Seminar & Workshop, October 2018, Malaysia Malaysian Court Interpreter Accreditation Course, 2019 Interpreting Workshops for TiPs, Migrants, and Vulnerable Populations IJM, (Virtual) 2021 & 2022 Innovation in Interpreters’ Summit (Virtual), 2022 & 2023 Thammasat University – Consecutive Interpreting & ToT AIIC Workshops, 2025, Bangkok, Thailand | Key Milestones 2008 – Opened Main Office near KLCC 2010 – Representative Office established in Singapore (closed by 2015) 2014 – Main Office moved to KL Sentral 2017 – Representative Office established in Madrid, Spain (closed by 2020) 2018 – Representative Office established in Tokyo, Japan (closed in 2020) 2020 – Introduced RSI Hub 2022 – Main Office moved to Bangsar South 2023 – 2nd generation joins the company |
References:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/b-lingo-communications/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-balanza-1331641b/
