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Vasco Pedro is a co-founder and chief executive officer of Unbabel, an AI-powered Language Operations platform that helps businesses deliver multilingual support at scale. He developed his love of both languages and technology during his time at Carnegie Mellon University. After a degree in language and knowledge learning, Vasco went on to develop his master’s degree and doctorate around language technologies — an academic study that covered over a decade of research. Vasco then worked at both Siemens and Google, where he helped develop technologies to further understand data computation and language. He cofounded Unbabel in 2013. Vasco’s knowledge of bridging both language and technology is at the core of everything that is built at Unbabel. He is bilingual in Portuguese and English.

João is a co-founder, the chief technology officer and computational genius behind Unbabel, an AI-powered Language Operations platform that helps businesses deliver multilingual support at scale. Portuguese born, João studied computer science at doctorate level at one of Lisbon’s most well-respected technical universities, Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa. During his studies, he published a number of well-received papers on machine learning, computational research, and computational linguistics — all of which form the bedrock of Unbabel’s machine translation engine. After graduation, João worked with INESC-ID, developing research in natural language processing (NLP) and went on to do his postdoc in NLP at the University of Pennsylvania. João was awarded a Marie Curie, Welcome II Scholarship (2011), which he declined in favor of entrepreneurship. He worked with now Unbabel CEO, Vasco Pedro, together on the development of language learning algorithms and machine learning tools before co-founding Unbabel in 2013.

Wolfgang Allisat is the chief revenue officer of Unbabel, an AI-powered Language Operations platform that helps businesses deliver multilingual support at scale. Wolf has a strong history of success in growing companies from promising pioneers into industry leaders, whether it’s driving Omniture’s European growth from zero to 1,100 customers, or managing global revenue for Nasdaq listed comScore. Wolf holds a masters degree in economics from the University of Saarland, Germany.

James Palmer is the CFO of Unbabel, an AI-powered Language Operations platform that helps businesses deliver multilingual support at scale. With over 30 years of experience, James previously advised a broad range of private equity-backed, emerging technology companies, and also worked and led high-revenue enterprise businesses such as Achilles Information Limited, Cable & Wireless Plc, and MessageLabs (now Symantec). He earned his M.A. in Mathematics and Statistics from Cambridge University.

Sophie Vu is the chief marketing officer for Unbabel, an AI-powered Language Operations platform that helps businesses deliver multilingual support at scale. She partners with more than 150 customer-centric brands who trust Unbabel to power their multilingual customer service and experience. With more than 20 years of experience growing and leading innovative tech companies, Sophie has a strong pulse on the current and emerging market landscape. Her career includes strategy and management of marketing, communications, brand, and product strategy for leading tech brands. She has a graduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management.

Ana is Chief of Staff at Unbabel, working with the CEO and the Leadership Team on strategic initiatives and management of the business. An experienced advisor across a variety of corporate functions, Ana has over a decade of experience, having worked in several continents and industries. Currently based in Lisbon, she speaks 4 languages and spends her time between the Unbabel hubs, creating understanding across the business.

Leah Bucellato is the vice president of people for Unbabel, an AI-powered Language Operations platform that helps businesses deliver multilingual support at scale. Prior to Unbabel, Leah helped Media Art Lab (MAL), the creative advertising agency for Apple, grow their London office from 20 to 200 people and managed the Italy, Spain, and France offices. For The App Business, she created the HR function and built a first-class team. She also led the HR team and created the global HR strategy for BBH, the global advertising agency that produced campaigns for top brands, including Audi, Axe, Google, and Virgin.