Jean-Louis Queguiner is Co-Founder and CEO at Gladia, an AI-powered audio intelligence platform providing real-time multilingual speech-to-text transcription and analytics for enterprises. Gladia serves over 70,000 users and 600 enterprise clients including Calendly, VEED.IO, and Aircall.

Jean-Louis spent over 10 years at OVHcloud, Europe's leading cloud provider, where he served as Group VP of Data, AI, and Quantum Computing. He holds a Master's Degree in Symbolic AI from the University of Quebec and Arts et Metiers ParisTech.

Jean-Louis founded Gladia in 2022 to solve the multilingual transcription challenge after existing services failed to understand his French accent. He started coding at age 10 and has extensive experience in big data, AI, and quantum computing.

Under his leadership, Gladia raised $16M Series A in 2024 led by XAnge, bringing total funding to $20.3M from investors including Sequoia Capital, New Wave, and XTX Ventures. The company launched its real-time transcription engine with industry-leading 300ms latency across 100+ languages.

Gladia's API processes transcriptions for contact centers, meeting assistants, and voice AI platforms worldwide, with advanced features including sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and code-switching capabilities. The platform achieves best-in-class accuracy while supporting multilingual conversations and noisy audio environments.