ABOUT
ELSA Corp. is a rising star startup founded in San Francisco with engineering office in Lisbon. Our vision is to enable everyone to speak foreign languages with full confidence, which helps to reach a better life and career opportunities.
Vu Van - Co-Founder - CEO
MBA & M.Ed @ Stanford Co-founded an app outsourcing agency 8yrs experience in international ops Engagement Manager, Booz & Co
Xavier Anguera - Co-Founder - CTO
PhD in Speech Processing, 15yrs experience/100+ papers. Previously a senior Speech Scientist at Telefonica research
Tia Gao - Product manager
MS Electrical Engineering @ Stanford. 30+ engineering publications. Former Google PM. YCombinator alum. Blogs about international cultures and startups.
Ganna Raboshchuk - Speech scientist
PhD in Audio Processing Passionate about humane applications of machine learning. Book worm and devoted yoga practitioner
Jorge Proença - Speech scientist
PhD in Speech Processing / University of Coimbra. Interested in language learning and proficiency assessment. Has a mean slice serve, less mean at board games
João Nuno - Full Stack
Applied Statistics / University of Lisbon Co-Created the Frappe Recommendation engine used by Mozilla Can hold his breath for almost 2 minutes
Nabil Shabab - Android
BE Information Technology at Cochin University. 7+yrs experience in developing android apps. Love helping people | executive member of a charity organization
Bruno Morgado - IOS
MSc Comp Sci @ Birkbeck, University of London. Software developer passionate about AI. Professional expat. Lived in 6 cities, 4 countries in 7 years
Sinan Shoukath - Android
BE Computer Science @ Cochin University Passionate Android Developer with 5+yrs experience . Music Lover | Technology explorer
Daniel Povey - Technical advisor
World-leading speech recognition expert PhD Speech Recognition (Cambridge) Prof @ Johns Hopkins University Creator of KALDI
Paul Meier - Speech advisor
World-class accent reduction coach 35+ yrs training executives and Hollywood stars. Founder of International Dialects of English Archive