Xavier Anguera

Xavier Anguera is a co-founder, CTO, and Chief Scientist at ELSA, Corp since September 2015, where significant contributions have been made towards developing ELSA Speak, an AI-driven personal tutor for spoken English. Prior to ELSA, Xavier served as an advisor at Vilynx, focused on speech and audio analytics, and founded Sinkronigo, specializing in creating read-aloud epub3 eBooks. Experience includes participation in the StartX acceleration program, founding Toastmasters clubs in Barcelona, and pursuing extensive research roles at Telefonica R&D and as a part-time associate professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Academic credentials include a PhD in Speech Technologies and an MSc in European Masters in Speech and Language Technologies from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.