Founder Profile
Piotr Dabkowski
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Piotr Dąbkowski holds an absolutely elite, highly specialized background in advanced machine learning and deep neural networks. Educated at the University of Cambridge and trained within the intensely demanding artificial intelligence division at Google, his massive background in building and deploying highly complex predictive algorithms gave him the exact technical mastery required to completely revolutionize AI speech synthesis.
Founding Story
Piotr Dąbkowski is a highly elite machine learning engineer and the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of ElevenLabs. A native of Gdańsk, Poland, Dąbkowski moved to the UK to complete an incredibly rigorous MPhil at the University of Cambridge, where he published groundbreaking research on AI-based image detection. He subsequently joined Google as an elite machine learning engineer. In 2022, he quit his highly lucrative position at Google to co-found ElevenLabs with his childhood friend Mati Staniszewski. Serving as the absolute technical mastermind behind the company's generative voice technology, Dąbkowski architected the incredibly complex deep learning algorithms that power ElevenLabs' hyper-realistic speech synthesis, securing his status as one of Europe's youngest self-made billionaires.