Fardad Zabetian

Fardad Zabetian

Co-founder & CEO at KUDO, Inc

Qualifications

Co-founder and CEO of KUDO, a multilingual meeting and AI speech translation platform

Founder of Media Vision (acquired by Televic Conference) and Conference Rental

Member of YPO; co-founder of Swiss audio technology company AVAtronics

Expertise

Language interpretation technology

AI speech translation

Localization

Conferencing systems

Global communication

Entrepreneurship

Fardad Zabetian is the co-founder and CEO of KUDO, a cloud-based platform that delivers real-time language interpretation and AI speech translation for web meetings and live conferences. A serial entrepreneur in the conferencing and language-technology space, he previously founded Media Vision (acquired by Televic Conference) and Conference Rental, providers of simultaneous interpretation and conferencing systems. He is focused on removing language and access barriers so people can communicate in their own language across the globe.

Experience

Co-founder & CEO at KUDO, Inc

Jan 2017 — Present · 9 yrs 7 mos

Leads a platform combining professional interpreters and AI speech translation for multilingual meetings and conferences.

Founder at Conference Rental

Jan 2007 — Present · 19 yrs 7 mos

Wholesale rental provider of conference microphones, voting, and simultaneous interpretation systems in North America.

Co-Founder at AVAtronics

Oct 2016 — Present · 9 yrs 10 mos

Swiss R&D company developing high-performance active noise cancellation for audio and video conferencing.

Advisor at SweatPals

Oct 2022 — Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

Advises a fitness and wellness community app.

Advisor at atmoky

Apr 2023 — Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

Advises a spatial-audio signal processing company.

Founder at Media Vision

Jun 2002 to Jul 2022 · 20 yrs 1 mo

Founded a conferencing, voting, and simultaneous interpretation systems provider, later acquired by Televic Conference.

Qualifications

Co-founder and CEO of KUDO, a multilingual meeting and AI speech translation platform

Founder of Media Vision (acquired by Televic Conference) and Conference Rental

Member of YPO; co-founder of Swiss audio technology company AVAtronics

Expertise

Language interpretation technology

AI speech translation

Localization

Conferencing systems

Global communication

Entrepreneurship

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