Fathy Shetiah's Lansing-based company,
Global
Image
Network, uses more than 400 freelance translators around the world to handle projects in 35 different languages.
The venture is just one of Shetiah's many ongoing entrepreneurial projects, and it's growing quickly.
According to excerpts from the article:
Fathy Shetiah starts most days at about 6 a.m., checking to make sure
everything is running smoothly at three or four of the 20
Biggby Coffee stores he
co-owns with his
He then heads over to his office in Lansing, where he runs
Global Image
Network, a translation service company. Shetiah switches focus back
and forth throughout the day, depending on which business demands more
attention.
Shetiah, 35, has been performing this balancing act for about two years.
But it seems to suit him.
"I'm a marketing guy," he said. "I can't sit still."
Shetiah moved from Egypt to the United States in 1989, when he was 14.
He attended
East Lansing
High School and graduated from
Michigan State University in 1999 with a
degree in marketing.
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