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