Who we are?
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.
Meet Our Team
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Vu Van
Co-Founder - CEO
MBA & M.Ed @ Stanford
Co-founded an app outsourcing agency 8yrs experience in international ops Engagement Manager, Booz & Co
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Xavier Anguera
Co-Founder - CTO
PhD in Speech Processing, 15yrs experience/100+ papers.
Previously a senior Speech Scientist at Telefonica research
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Tia Gao
Product manager
MS Electrical Engineering @ Stanford.
30+ engineering publications. Former Google PM. YCombinator alum. Blogs about international cultures and startups.
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Ganna Raboshchuk
Speech scientist
PhD in Audio Processing
Passionate about humane applications of machine learning. Book worm and devoted yoga practitioner
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sinan Shoukath
Android
BE Computer Science @ Cochin University
Passionate Android Developer with 5+yrs experience . Music Lover | Technology explorer
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Daniel Povey
Technical advisor
World-leading speech recognition expert
PhD Speech Recognition (Cambridge)
Prof @ Johns Hopkins University
Creator of KALDI
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Paul Meier
Speech advisor
World-class accent reduction coach
35+ yrs training executives and Hollywood stars. Founder of International Dialects of English Archive