Founded in 2004, RantNetwork’s vision is simple: “Imagine a world without language barriers”. Based on that vision, RantNetwork’s goal is to provide mobile language translation applications that break down normal communication boundaries. The labors of that vision have given birth to Communilator. Soon to become an industry standard, Communilator is destined to make paper dictionaries and phrasebooks a thing of the past.

RantNetwork’s Communilator now provides support for over 20 different language pairs with more being added constantly. With development teams in the United States and Bulgaria, RantNetwork has created a “best of breed” solution based on the fusion of mobile, internet and machine language technologies. RantNetwork’s flexible architecture allows for the rapid implementation of new or more accurate language pairs. RantNetwork’s development team searches the world over to partner with the technology leaders in machine language translation so that they always offer the newest and most accurate solutions.

Besides offering text to text and text to speech translation, RantNetwork is the only company that offers image text translation. RantNetwork was the first to recognize that sometimes entering text is not possible. Therefore they have created the world’s only Blackberry camera image text translation solution. In an industry first, RantNetwork’s Communilator allows Blackberry users to take a picture of text, such as on a menu or street sign, and translate to text and/or to speech.

RantNetwork – we’ve got the world talking.

Kenneth Volet
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Volet brings more than twenty-five years of technical research, systems operations and senior management experience to the Company. Prior to RantNetwork, Mr. Volet was Co-founder and Managing Partner of TheraClin Systems, LLC, a company in the healthcare IT marketplace. Prior to TheraClin Systems, Mr. Volet was Chief Executive Officer of Maximal Innovative Intelligence, an overseas based supplier of data mining and visualization technology which was acquired by Microsoft in 2002. Mr. Volet was also a Co-founder and Managing Director of ebi Solutions, LLC, a software systems and consultancy services company in the complex analytics marketplace. ebi Solutions was later merged with Gentia Software where Mr. Volet subsequently served as President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to ebi Solutions, Mr. Volet was Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Seagate Software IMG. In this capacity he was responsible for an organization of 300 employees in 23 offices worldwide with annual revenues of over $120 million. Seagate Software IMG was formed in part through the acquisition of Holistic Systems Ltd where Mr. Volet served for eight years as President and CEO of its North American subsidiary. Mr. Volet has also served as a Board Member for a number of technology companies and holds both a BA in Physics and a MBA from Northeastern University. Mr. Volet, for the past two decades, has provided focused and decisive leadership within emerging, mature, and competitive high tech business markets. He has identified and captured new business opportunities resulting in high-profit, high-growth corporations and has extensive experience in strategic planning, sales and marketing, global expansion, strategic development, contract negotiations and venture capital relationships.

Founder, In Memorium
William J. Grandizio (1958-2008)

Michael J. Ducas
Chief Financial Officer
Michael J. Ducas oversees all of RantNetwork’s financial operations including planning and analysis, corporate development, finance, tax planning, risk management, cash management, investor relations, financial reporting and compliance. During his 25 year professional career, he has provided these services to some of the largest names in the advertising and pharmaceutical industries developing business plans, preparing and executing capital-raising strategies, performing tax planning and compliance, audits, and SEC reporting. He has extensive experience performing accounting, financial and management functions on the international, federal and state levels. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Masters of Business Administration from Marywood University.

Josef A. Bastar
Vice President of Technical Services
Josef A. Bastar has been involved in the Information Technology industry for over 30 years as a high-level consultant, project manager, business analyst, system architect, system programmer, and most recently, as an entrepreneur. Prior to joining RantNetwork, he founded x4ms Corporation, a company specializing in multi-lingual software solutions that function with existing software products without requiring source code modification or conversion. He is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, and has a working knowledge of German and French. Currently he is studying Mandarin Chinese. He has a bachelor’s degree from Saint Peter’s College.