Gabi Zijderveld has been with Be Free since July of 1999 when she was brought on board as International Product Manager. Gabi has since moved into the role of managing Be FreeÕs international growth through development of local partnerships.

Prior to joining Be Free, Gabi was International Product Manager at Dragon Systems, a market leader in speech recognition software. At Dragon Systems Gabi was responsible for bringing to market the first foreign, non US English, language versions of continuous speech dictation software.

Gabi began her career in the US working for ON Technology, a Cambridge (Massachusetts) based software company, specialized in Novell optimized networking solutions. As International Marketing Communications Manager, Gabi executed ON TechnologyÕs direct marketing programs across Europe and managed localization of itÕs products.

Gabi grew up in The Netherlands and graduated from Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht in 1991 with a Masters in Art History and Archeology.

Gabi is based in Boston but divides her time between Be Free headquarters and her native Europe.