Karine Allouche

Karine Allouche is General Manager of Language Learning and European Skills Go-To-Market at Chegg. She leads the global strategy and growth of Busuu while expanding Chegg’s workforce skilling presence across key European markets —bridging consumer language learning with enterprise capability building. Karine specializes in scaling education businesses at moments of technological inflection. Her work focuses on AI-native operating models, sustainable growth, and measurable skill outcomes that connect learning directly to employability and organizational performance. Previously, she led Coursera Enterprise, managing their global business and partnering with governments and Fortune 500 companies to drive large-scale workforce transformation in the age of AI. As CEO of GlobalEnglish, she led the company’s evolution into an AI-blended language learning platform and its successful strategic exit. Earlier in her career at Microsoft, she built international enterprise partnerships across global markets. Today, Karine works at the intersection of product innovation, go-to-market strategy, and transformation. She advises executive teams on how to move from AI experimentation to AI-native execution — redesigning learner experiences, cost structures, and human–AI collaboration models to build durable competitive advantage in markets where AI can commoditize features rapidly. She sees language learning as a leading indicator for the broader edtech ecosystem: conversational AI, real-time feedback, adaptive pathways, and continuous engagement embedded at the core of the product. Yet AI fluency also brings structural challenges , intensifying competition, pressure on unit economics, and the need to differentiate on outcomes, trust, and brand. At ASU+GSV, she brings an operator’s perspective on what first-mover language apps can teach the industry about building resilient, AI-native education companies in an era of rapid technological change.