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University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Paul English
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English was previously the Chief Technology Officer and cofounder of Kayak.com in Concord, Massachusetts. KAYAK announced it was being acquired by Priceline in November 2012. English is a part-time instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, where he teaches entrepreneurship.
English served in 2008–2009 as the Chief Technology Director of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequality at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, leading the creation of GHDonline community of global health workers.
English was the President of Boston Light Software, an ecommerce company he co-founded in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1998 and sold to Intuit in 1999, where English became Intuit’s Vice President of Technology. At Intuit, he managed the QuickBooks web site creation and merchant account / service ecommerce development teams and he led the creation of the Intuit Developer Network and the Intuit Innovation Laboratory
English was a Director at Intermute from 1999 to 2005, where he led the design and development of “SpamSubtract”. InterMute was sold to Trend Micro in May 2005.
English previously worked in as SVP of Engineering and SVP of Product Management and Marketing at Interleaf in Waltham, Massachusetts.
English worked as a software engineer at Texet Corporation (electronic publishing software) in Arlington, Massachusetts, at Haemonetics (blood centrifuge device drivers) in Braintree, Massachusetts, at Data General (operations research) in Westboro, Massachusetts, at American Power Conversion Systems (real-time data acquisition for the United States Air Force) in Melrose, Massachusetts, and at Individeo (sound effect development) in Woburn, Massachusetts. English received a Bachelor in Computer Science from UMass Boston in 1987, an Mississippi in Computer Science in 1989. English graduated from Boston Latin School in 1982.
English was previously on the product advisory boards for LinkedIn and Pixable.
Achievements
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English is the founder of “GetHuman.com” which seeks to restore personal contact in customer service. English is the founder of the World Xiangqi League, an online Chinese chess community created in 1997. English won 2008 Chief Technology Officer of the Year from Mass Technology Leadership Council and 2012 New England Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst and Young.
