United StatesFardad Zabetian
Co-Founder & CEO
Fardad Zabetian moved from Iran to the US in 2000 and holds an MSc in Engineering from San Francisco State University. He founded five companies, two before age 24: Media Vision (2002), which sold conference hardware and language interpretation equipment to cities across the US; Conference Rental USA (2007), which leased conferencing technology; and AVAtronics (2016), a Swiss active noise-canceling startup. In 2017 he founded KUDO, a cloud-based multilingual video conferencing platform that pairs live human interpreters across 100+ languages with enterprise meeting infrastructure, serving the UN, governments, and multinational corporations.