Fardad Zabetian

CEO

New York, New York, United States27 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of KUDO, revolutionizing language accessibility.
  • Led redesign of UN meeting facilities, enhancing global communication.
  • Advised over 20 startups as an angel investor.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur specializing in audio-visual solutions and multilingual communication.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipProduct ManagementEvent ManagementAudio Engineering

Other Skills

Audio ConferencingVideo ConferencingInterpretationElectronicsSimultaneous InterpretationCablingIntegrationSolution SellingLive SoundLive EventsNetworkingCorporate EventsLighting ControlVideoStreaming Media

About

Fardad Zabetian is a visionary entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of KUDO, a company revolutionizing language accessibility to connect people and businesses without boundaries. With a track record of founding two of America’s fastest-growing companies, Fardad has led expansions into Europe and Asia, solidifying his presence as a global business leader. Known for tackling complex projects, he played a pivotal role in the 2012 redesign of the United Nations’ meeting facilities, including the iconic General Assembly Hall in New York. His expertise has also supported major international gatherings, including the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings and key European institutions. At KUDO, Fardad is taking multilingual meetings and events beyond physical borders, empowering real-time communication across languages and geographies. Passionate about supporting new entrepreneurs, Fardad actively advises early-stage founders and has invested in over 20 startups as an angel investor, sharing his insights and experience to fuel the next wave of innovation and opportunities.

Experience

Atmoky

Advisor

Apr 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Austria · Remote

  • Atmoky revolutionizes the perception of audio by providing Hyper-Realistic Spatial Audio. atmoky's solutions combine high-tech signal processing and perceptual expertise to form efficient and licensable software libraries. The result: "True-to-life spatial audio experiences"

Sweatpals

Advisor

Oct 2022Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · Remote

  • an app that brings fitness and wellness communities together and makes them more visible and accessible.

Ypo

NY Liberty Chapter

Jul 2019Present · 6 yrs 8 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • YPO is the premier global leadership organization for more than 28,000 chief executives in over 130 countries and the global platform for them to engage, learn and grow. Today, YPO member-run companies, diversified among industries and types of businesses, employ more than 22 million people globally and generate USD9 trillion in annual revenues.

Kudo, inc

Co-founder & CEO

Jan 2017Present · 9 yrs 2 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • KUDO is a powerful cloud-based platform allowing people and businesses to collaborate and meet more effectively, across geographic and language barriers. KUDO streams real-time language interpretation to your web meetings and live conferences, so everyone can speak in their mother tongue. KUDO will keep participants engaged no matter where they are.
Audio ConferencingVideo ConferencingInterpretationProduct ManagementEntrepreneurshipEvent Management

Avatronics

Co-Founder

Oct 2016Present · 9 yrs 5 mos · Lausanne Area, Switzerland

  • AVAtronics is a Swiss R&D and technology company, developing the highest-performance active noise cancellation technique for Audio industry with applications in headphones/earphones/earbuds as well as video conferencing. Conferencing speakerphones also can be equipped with our technology. AVA enables a clear call without the sounds of keyboards tapping, paper shuffling, air-conditioning or chairs squeaking around all the time.
  • The main differentiation point of AVA technique is its higher bandwidth comparing to the best available noise cancelling techniques in the market. AVA technique also outperforms all the other techniques in their own operation bandwidth.
Audio EngineeringElectronicsProduct Management

Conference rental

Founder

Jan 2007Present · 19 yrs 2 mos

  • Wholesale Rental solution provider for conference microphones, electronic voting, and simultaneous interpretation system in North America. We provide wireless and daisy-chain push-to-talk microphones to AV companies, hotels, and convention centers.
  • our wireless audience response and voting system help the interactive participation in corporate events.
Audio ConferencingElectronicsEvent ManagementEntrepreneurship

Media vision

Founder

Jun 2002Jul 2022 · 20 yrs 1 mo · Greater New York City Area

  • Acquired by Televic Conference ****
  • Media Vision is premier solution provider in conferencing, voting, and simultaneous interpretation systems with support network throughout the United States and Canada, France, Switzerland and the UK.
  • Media Vision has provided conferencing solutions for the boardrooms, city council chambers, lecture halls, and distance learning centers of companies including JP Morgan Chase Bank, of Universities including those located in the States of Colorado and Texas, and of numerous cities located in the West and mid-West of the country. Media Vision USA also partners with rental and staging companies, and most recently, has announced its partnership with a leading nationwide distributor of integrated audio and video systems

Pg engineering company

Engineering Manager

Apr 1998Oct 2001 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • PG is leading provider of education technologies including audio visual, computer training labs for universities, colleges, and corporate training facilities in the Middle East.
Audio ConferencingEvent ManagementSimultaneous InterpretationEntrepreneurship

Education

San Francisco State University

Master of Science in Engineering — Computer & Communications

Jan 2002Jan 2004

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