Ronald Croen

Ron is an entrepreneur, leader and business advisor. Ron was founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Nuance Communications. He advises CEO's as a CEO buddy on operations, strategy, leadership and management. His experience spans various sectors in information and communications technology such as artificial intelligence, digital media, big data, enterprise software and SaaS. He has been involved with companies across the life-cycle, from start-up, to very early stage angel and venture funded growth businesses, to medium and large public companies. Nuance is the global leader in voice automation technology and applications, providing software and solutions based on the technologies of speech recognition, speech synthesis and speaker verification. Ron earned a J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a B.A. from Tufts University.