Voice Over Agency Voquent Appoints John Burke to Drive Next Phase of Growth
Voquent, are thrilled to announce the appointment of John Burke, a veteran in the multi-lingual service industry. He joins Voquent's Glasgow office on 1st March to lead sales for the fastest growing voice over agency in the world.
“We're on a mission to accelerate audience engagement on a global scale. Voquent is intensely focused on innovation and has an excellent market position. I’m excited to play an integral role in its success.” John says. “Voquent has established a presence in the worldwide voice over industry that has taken a lot of people by surprise, and when you’re part of something that’s ascending so rapidly, the journey itself is very rewarding”.
John comes to Voquent with an extensive history of delivering both value and a personalised service to thousands of customers including many of the world’s biggest brands. He has years of experience delivering multi-lingual voice casting and audio-visual translation services for all types of content, including commercials, animations, video games, eLearning courses and more.
Founder and Managing Director Miles Chicoine remarks on the addition of John: “We place a lot of value in our people having the drive, energy and relevant expertise, and John is no exception. There are few people that have his wealth of knowledge and experience in the localisation industry and I’m convinced he’ll be a huge asset to us. His leadership and insight are going to be an invaluable contribution as we continue to serve an expanding international customer base. Particularly when translation, subtitling and audio description services in addition to voiceovers are increasingly playing a pivotal role in our solution offerings.”
Starting initially in London and recently opening a new office in Glasgow, Voquent hosts the fastest growing voice over website in the world, with thousands of professional voices from around the globe at the time of writing. Classifying a huge variety of dialects and accents, there is no charge for talent to join the site and customers are free to shortlist voice actors for their projects with no obligation. Voquent offers solutions for projects with a collection of services to enable full accessibility including: translations, subtitling, audio description and audio-visual localisation.
John is working on building a centralised commercial unit that will collaborate and coordinate with voice talent and customers worldwide in both the corporate and entertainment sectors. John can be contacted by phone (+44 (0) 203 6033 676), or by email (johnb@voquent.com).