Paul M. English

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Paul M. English (born 1963) is the founder of several software companies and 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.

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Early life and education

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.

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Career

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 from 1995 to 1998.

English was a Director at Intermute from 1999 to 2005, a company founded by his brother Ed English. InterMute was sold to Trend Micro in May 2005. At Intermute, Paul English led the design and development of "SpamSubtract".

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.

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.

Until July 2016, English was a part-time instructor at MIT Sloan School of Management, where he taught entrepreneurship.

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Charitable work

English serves on the non-profit Boards of Summits Education (Haiti), Partners In Health, Village Health Works (Burundi), and Humanity Rises (refugee relief).

English is the founder of the Winter Walk for Homelessness Boston, Massachusetts.

English is the founder of MLK Boston, a project to create a new memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King in Boston, Massachusetts.

English is the founder of "GetHuman.com" which seeks to restore personal contact in customer service.

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Awards

English won 2008 CTO of the Year from Mass Technology Leadership Council and 2012 New England Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst and Young.

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Personal life

In 1996, English was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

English is the founder of the World Xiangqi League, an online Chinese chess community created in 1997.

He has two children.

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References

Bibliography

• Kidder, Tracy (2016). A Truck Full Of Money: One Man's Quest To Recover From Great Success. Random House. ISBN 978-0-8129-9524-4. 

External links

• "paulenglish.com" (2015-08-26)
• Lola Travel Company
• "Here & Now: Kayak Co-Founder Paul English On His 'Truck Full Of Money'" (2016-09-20)
• "Tracy Kidder's new book trails struggles of a bipolar software entrepreneur building a successful start-up" (2016-09-16)
• "'A Truck Full of Money,' by Tracy Kidder" (2016-09-22)
• "New York Times: Paul English of KAYAK, on Nurturing New Ideas" (2013-07-25)
• "How This Introvert Founder Became a Billion-Dollar Leader" (2017-03-03)
• "The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak" (2010-02-01)
• "I Have Never Met A $1.8 Billion Founder Like Paul English" (2017-08-17)
• "He Sold His Business for $2 Billion. Now He's an Uber Driver. Huh?" (2016-06-01)
• "Fast Company: Five Word Performance Reviews" (2013-10-03)
• Fortune/CNN "Why Kayak's coders handle customer service" (2012-09-26 video)
• "OnStartups: Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of KAYAK" (2010-05-10 blog&audio)
• "FastCompany: Creating A Culture of Innovation" (2012-04-03)
• "Mass High Tech: KAYAK CTO Paul English shows knack for finding talent" (2010-04-09)
• "Business Week: Inside the Elephant Room at KAYAK" (2012-12-06)
• "Tnooz: KAYAK Exit Interview" (2014-01-30)

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