Xavier Anguera is the co-founder and CTO of ELSA Corp. Within ELSA he is responsible for engineering, research in speech/AI and data science. Prior to ELSA, he founded a digital electronic/audio-books publisher to help language learners getting used to a new language while reading. Earlier on he was a founding researcher in the multimedia research department at Telefonica, where he pursued research in speech and multimedia processing. Xavier holds a PhD in speech processing and is the coauthor of over 120 published research publications. He is also the co-inventor in multiple patents and an active contributor to the open source community.