Like many other American companies, Acutrans is a product of immigrants.
After World War II, Ginta Raudonis immigrated to the United States through President Truman’s Displaced Persons Act of 1948. As a hopeful, young Lithuanian girl, Ginta held on to her heritage and linguistic abilities throughout her childhood and into adulthood. After graduating from the University of Connecticut, Ginta moved to Chicago.
In Chicago, she noticed a growing demand for skilled language professionals for the large immigrant population in the city. Friends and family would come to her for help with interpreting and translations. In 1976, Ginta founded Acutrans. Originally working from her kitchen table while caring for her three children, she built a network of interpreters and translators across Chicago. As more people relocated to Chicago in search of the American dream, Ginta saw the demand for her business increase each year.
In 1996, twenty years after she started the business, she handed it over to her two sons, Linas and Andrew. Linas and Andrew took Acutrans to new heights by adding services such as video interpreting, interpreter training, and increasing the size of both the interpreting and language translation departments. By focusing on and embracing emerging technology trends as well as providing radical customer service, the brothers helped to grow Acutrans into the national and international language company it is today.
