Who we are
Nick Wong is the Founder and Chief Product Officer of inteligbl. His cross-cultural background has shaped a deep interest in how communication works—and breaks down—across languages and contexts. Prior to inteligbl, he held global product leadership roles at Activision Blizzard, building and scaling teams across Asia from Hong Kong and Shanghai, working closely with non-English speaking markets, before driving growth into new markets from Amsterdam across Europe and the Americas, reaching over 300 million users.
Earlier in his career, he worked in corporate strategy across media, including News Corp–owned cable networks, and later led strategy at SBS, a multicultural broadcaster delivering content in more than 60 languages—further shaping his perspective on communication across cultures and real-world environments. He began his career in investment banking at JPMorgan. Nick holds an Executive MBA (Distinction) @AGSM and a Master of Commerce (Finance) from UNSW, and has volunteered supporting migrants to settle and find employment in Australia.
Professor Kirrie Ballard, University of Sydney served as Head of Speech Pathology and Director of the Graduate Entry Masters program until July 2012. She has recently taken up a four-year research fellowship. Professor Ballard has published on diagnostic approaches and procedures for acquired and childhood speech and language disorders (particularly apraxia of speech) and on application of the principles of motor learning framework to treatment of motor speech disorders in adults and children.
Professor Ballard completed her undergraduate degree at University of Queensland in 1983 and worked primarily as a pediatrics speech pathologist in Queensland and New South Wales until moving to the USA in 1992. She completed a Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology (1994) and PhD (1997) at Northwestern University in Illinois and went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Voice and Speech at University of Iowa.
Dr. Beena Ahmed is an Associate Professor in Signal Processing with the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW. She received her B.Sc. Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan in 1993 and her Ph.D. from UNSW in 2004. She joined UNSW in 2017. Prior to that she was an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar.
Dr. Ahmed has been awarded international research grants for projects on long-term insomnia monitoring and remote speech therapy. She also received funding to use wearable physiological sensors to identify physiological correlates of mental stress and then adopt these correlates to develop biofeedback mobile games to teach users relaxation skills. Her current research interests are on applying machine learning and remote monitoring in healthcare and therapeutic applications.
Deepti is a Senior Product Consultant at inteligbl, based in Sydney, Australia, with an MBA from AGSM @ UNSW and an exchange at NYU Stern in New York. She operates at the intersection of technology and product strategy, leading customer discovery through to delivery and translating insights into clear product direction for Simi Pro X, inteligbl’s enterprise offering. With a background in cloud and data platforms, she also currently leads cloud platform initiatives at Commonwealth Bank, with prior experience at APRA AMCOS and Genworth Australia. At Inteligbl, she shapes product strategy and roadmap for an AI-driven speech intelligibility platform, focused on improving real-world communication outcomes in enterprise environments.
Deepti brings a strong perspective on building technology with real-world impact. Having lived and worked across multiple geographies, she brings a globally informed, people-first perspective, shaped by diverse environments and active involvement in the startup ecosystem.
Chuanxin Wang works as a Language Learning Community Facilitator at inteligbl. He is a dual recipient of the ADA Dean’s List (2024, 2025) at the UNSW, recognised for outstanding academic performance in the Bachelor of Arts/Secondary Education program. He is currently majoring in Sociology and minoring in Linguistics, with a focus on English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching and culturally responsive education. His academic achievements also include the UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture Global Academic Scholarship, alongside multiple excellence awards during his Foundation Studies.
Chuanxin brings a thoughtful and well-rounded perspective to student-centred teaching, with a strong focus on how learners from diverse cultural backgrounds engage with language and communication. At inteligbl, he works as a Language Learning Community Facilitator, where he contributes to shaping how the platform communicates with and supports its learners. His work involves translating user feedback into actionable insight, identifying common language challenges, and ensuring onboarding and learning content are clearly understood by non-native speakers. He also contributes to UI and UX design, helping create an experience that is intuitive, accessible, and culturally relevant.
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