Indre Bates is an experienced vendor manager at Autodesk, where she centrally oversees the relationships with Autodesk partners who provide a breadth of services such as translation, engineering, project management, quality assurance and so on. She manages vendor performance, skills and risks on an ongoing basis through various means to ensure they provide the best services to localization solutions. Indre has also recently launched and is now managing the Women in Localization Singapore Chapter.