Paul English

Who is Paul English?

Paul English is the CEO and Co-founder of Blade, LLC, a Boston-based consumer technology foundry. English was previously the CTO and cofounder of Kayak.com in Concord, Massachusetts. KAYAK announced it was being acquired by Priceline in November 2012.

English is a part-time instructor at MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches entrepreneurship.

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.

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 Vice President 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 is the founder of the “gethuman” movement to restore personal contact in customer service.

English serves on the non-profit Boards of Partners In Health and Village Health Works.