Paul M. English
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English in 2012
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| Born | 1963 (age 53–54) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts-Boston (B.S. Computer Science '87, M.S. Computer Science '89) |
| Occupation | CEO and co-founder of Lola |
| Years active | 1989–present |
Paul M. English (born 1963) is the founder of several software companies and he is a philanthropist. He is the CEO and co-founder of Lola, a Boston-based travel service. English was previously the CTO and cofounder of Kayak.com. KAYAK was acquired by Priceline in November 2012.
English received a BA in Computer Science from UMass Boston in 1987, and an MS in Computer Science in 1989. English graduated from Boston Latin School in 1982.
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 APC Systems (real-time data acquisition for the US Air Force) in Melrose, Massachusetts, and at Individeo (sound effect development) in Woburn, Massachusetts.
English worked in as SVP of Engineering and SVP of Product Management and Marketing at Interleaf in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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 serves on the non-profit Boards of Summits Education (Haiti), Partners In Health and Village Health Works.
English is the founder of “GetHuman.com” which seeks to restore personal contact in customer service.
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 VP 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 Lab.
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