Paul M. English is the founder of several software companies and a philanthropist. He is the CTO and co-founder of Lola.com, a Boston-based travel service. English was previously the CTO and cofounder of Kayak.com. KAYAK was acquired by Priceline in November 2012 for 1.8 billion dollars. English founded the business travel startup Lola in 2015 and was its first CEO.
English is the founder of the WorldXiangqi League, an online Chinese chess community created in 1997. He worked as a software engineer at Texet Corporation in Arlington, Massachusetts, at Haemonetics in Braintree, Massachusetts, at Data General in Westboro, Massachusetts, at APC Systems in Melrose, Massachusetts, and at Individeo in Woburn, Massachusetts. English worked in as SVP of Engineering and SVP of Product Management and Marketing at Interleaf in Waltham, Massachusetts from 1995 to 1998. He was also the President of Boston Light Software, an ecommerce company he co-founded in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1998 and sold to Intuit in 1999, where English became Intuit’s VP of Technology. At Intuit, he managed the QuickBooks web site creation and merchant account / service ecommerce development teams and he led the creation of the Intuit Developer Network and the Intuit Innovation Lab. He was a Director at Intermute from 1999 to 2005, a company he co-founded with his brother Ed English. InterMute was sold to Trend Micro in May 2005. At Intermute, Paul English led the design and development of “SpamSubtract”. In 2008–2009, he served as the Chief Technology Director of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequality at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, leading the creation of GHDonline community of global health workers. In July 2015, English founded the travel startup and was the founding CEO. Lola initially used chat and AI to create a more efficient way to book travel. Until July 2016, English was a part-time instructor at MIT Sloan School of Management, where he taught entrepreneurship. In 2017, Lola pivoted into business travel and hired former HubSpot CMO Mike Volpe to replace English as CEO; English became Lola's CTO.
Charitable work
English serves on the non-profit Boards of Summits Education, Partners In Health, Village Health Works, and Humanity Rises.
English is the founder of the Winter Walk for Homelessness Boston, Massachusetts.
