Paul Gollash
Born
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
NationalityAmerican
Education
Occupation(s)Founder and CEO, Voxy

Paul Gollash is an American entrepreneur and business executive. He is the CEO and founder of Voxy, a language-learning platform that uses mobile and web technology to teach English as a second language. He is currently based in New York City.[1][2]

Early life

Gollash is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[1] He studied at Dartmouth College where he received his BA in Economics in 1997. At 22, he graduated from college and moved to Santiago, Chile.[2][3][4]

Career

Gollash traveled to Chile to learn Spanish and begin an import/export company.[1][3][5] When he was 24, he moved to Madrid to work for Opel, a subset of General Motors Europe, where he sold car parts and established auto repair shops in Spain, Portugal, and other parts of southern Europe.[1][2][6]

After his time in Madrid, Gollash returned to the United States to attend The University of Chicago-Booth School of Business. He received his MBA with Honors in 2004.[3][6] He then worked as a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton for a short time before he left to work for Virgin Group.[1][2] During his time there, he helped conceive, raise funding for, and launch Virgin Hotels.[1][2]

Gollash co-founded Voxy with Gregg Carey in September 2010. He serves as the company's chief executive officer and lead spokesperson. The concept for Voxy was based on Gollash's experiences of learning a second language and his ideas about engaging language learners with real-world content.[1][5] At the 2010 TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Gollash pitched Voxy in front of a panel that included Sean Parker, Greg Tseng, James Slavet, and Victoria Ransom.[7] Since then, Voxy has received a total of $20.4 million in funding.[8]

Personal life

In May 2015, Gollash married Maria Cabo. They have a daughter, Greta.[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "How to stand up to investors who rejected your idea – with Paul Gollash". nixergy.com. Andrew Warner. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Meersschaert, Kate (6 October 2014). "Profiles: Paul Gollash". newlearningtimes.com. EdLab. Teachers College, Columbia University. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Paul Gollash, Founder & CEO at Voxy". blogs.ubc.ca. The University of British Columbia. 28 September 2013. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Graduation List as of June 5, 1997". thedartmouth.com. The Dartmouth, Inc. 8 June 1997. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  5. 1 2 Holmes, David (7 June 2012). "Voxy's Paul Gollash Makes Language Learning Social, Local, and Mobile". fastcompany.com. Mansueto Ventures, LLC. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Paul Gollash, '04". chicagobooth.edu. The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  7. ↑ Tsotsis, Alexia (28 September 2010). "Voxy Helps You Learn A Language By Text, iPhone, Email And Web". techcrunch.com. AOL Inc. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  8. ↑ Crook, Jordan (3 September 2012). "From Disrupt Finalist To $8M In Funding And 2M Users, Voxy Tells All". techcrunch.com. AOL Inc. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  9. ↑ Sridhar Pappu (January 7, 2016). "Meet the New York Bachelors Who Yearn for Something More". The New York Times. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
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