Jack Welde

Jack Welde
Founder and CEO

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Jack is the pilot of this team’s voyage. Literally. He’s a true renaissance man: a technology early-adopter, serial entrepreneur, software patent-holder, product evangelist and combat-decorated Air Force pilot. Before starting Smartling, he served as SVP Product at eMusic and COO/CTO at SheSpeaks and RunTime Technologies. He also co-founded Trio Development, a software company that created the first Personal Information Manager, which was sold to Apple in the mid ’90s.

He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also studied linguistics and interned with Professor William Labov, and a MBA from Cameron University in Germany. He lives outside of NYC with his wife and children and can usually be found writing product specs at midnight, discovering new music or flying light aircraft.

Watch Jack Present Smartling
Smartling’s mission and the business case for going multilingual