John Nguyen

John Nguyen is a distinguished figure in the technology sector, particularly known for his expertise in speech recognition and mobile technologies. He co-founded Vlingo and served as the Vice President of Product and Business Development until its acquisition by Nuance in 2012. Prior to Vlingo, Nguyen was the Vice President of Engineering at Groove Mobile, where he initiated significant innovations in mobile content search, superdistribution, and recommendations. His career also includes a tenure as Senior Director of Network Speech Products at ScanSoft, a role he assumed following the acquisition of SpeechWorks. At ScanSoft, he managed the research and development of all network speech recognition products. Earlier, at SpeechWorks, he directed the development of the speech recognition engine and platform. Academically, Nguyen is highly credentialed with a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from MIT, as well as B.S. degrees in Math and Computer Science from the same institution.