Veronica Mehno, a West Windsor resident and founder of LM Language Services, is the recipient of the 2013 Best of Manhattan Award. “This is a very prestigious award, and it is a recognition of our hard work and dedication,” she says about the company located in Carnegie Center. “This award means that even being a small business owner, dedication, sacrifice, and perseverance pays off.”
Her husband, Christopher Mehno, a lawyer at Windels Marx, specializes in corporate and malpractice litigation. They met in Manhattan in 2005 and were married in 2007.
With an MBA in finance from Boston University, she was working very long hours at HSBC. “When the financial crisis came around, I was juggling work with doctor’s appointments for infertility, and it was just too much,” she says. The couple agreed that she should start her own company.
“Chris is always in need of an interpreter so I decided to go down that path,” she says. Mehno registered at Hunter College to get her certificate as an interpreter and translator from Spanish into English and vice versa. She also became accredited as an interpreter by the New York State Unified Court System. LM Language Services (Language Management, Language Services) was incorporated in 2009.
“Chris and I were happy living in New York, but when Matthew was born we knew we needed to move to a more spacious place,” she says. “We wanted a place where diversity is welcome and embraced and where Chris could commute. West Windsor was the perfect combination as it had great schools, it is diverse, and it is only one hour away from New York City.” They moved to West Windsor in 2010.
Matthew, now 3, attends pre-K at Millstone River School in the WW-P Community Education program. Their twins, Sophia Marie and Aidan John, are 20 months old.
“I could not have been happier in moving my family from Manhattan to Princeton Junction,” she says. “My three kids love it and cannot get enough of running around and playing.”
“I am the type of person that I want my clients to be happy with my service all the time,” she says. “I am aware that in this modern world the apps are the in thing now, but I am very old school and I believe in talking to the client and custom making a plan according to their needs.” Visit www.lmlangaugeservices.com.
