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Xavier Anguera

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Senior Vice President AI for Language Learning at Babbel
📍 Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal

Xavier is the SVP of AI for Language Learning at Babbel, with over 20 years of experience turning research into production-scale AI. An entrepreneur and brilliant scientist, he co-founded the language-learning app ELSA. He holds a PhD in Speech Processing from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and has authored over 100 publications and patents.

Originally from Barcelona, Xavier is an engineer at heart who enjoys tinkering and building small coding projects in his spare time. He has a passion for effective communication, having previously founded a Toastmasters club to help colleagues improve their public speaking skills. Colleagues describe him as a visionary, innovator, and a gifted communicator.

While considering his next career move after a solo venture, he serendipitously met his co-founder for ELSA at a research conference in Germany, which led to their successful collaboration.

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
Senior Vice President AI for Language Learning
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal
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Priorities

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AI for Language Learning
His entire career, from founding ELSA to his current SVP role at Babbel, is dedicated to using AI to help people learn and speak new languages more effectively.
Turning Research into Products
He has a demonstrated history of taking academic concepts from speech processing and AI and building them into successful, scalable consumer applications like ELSA.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Senior Vice President AI for Language Learning
Babbel
11-2015 - 1-2016
fall 2015 alumni
StartX.
9-2015 - 9-2025
co-founder, CTO and Chief Scientist
ELSA, Corp
2-2015 - 12-2016
Founder and CEO
Sinkronigo
3-2013 - 1-2015
Founder and Club president
Toastmasters International
In the press

Media appearances

203. Babbel's 'AI Boss' (ELSA's co‑founder) on the Future of Language Apps. Featured in YouTube
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Education
1996 - 2001
Electrical Engineering
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2003 - 2006
PhD
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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