Paul Maglione was born in New York City, grew up in the United States, Italy and the Philippines, and obtained his BA in Economics from Brown University in Rhode Island, USA and his MBA from London Business School in the UK. He also holds a Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Rutgers University.

Following an early career in journalism and magazine publishing, Paul moved into corporate marketing and then cable and satellite television, where he helped establish NBC and CNBC in Europe before taking on senior management positions with Turner Broadcasting Europe and CNN International. He then moved to the videogames industry, in charge of marketing and publishing at Scottish mobile games start-up iPlay and then moving to Paris to become President of Vivendi Games Mobile.

In early 2009 Paul co-founded Entertainment Learning in Paris, dedicated to bringing the power of digital entertainment to the world of education. The company’s first service, English Attack!, is an innovative digital entertainment language immersion platform for learners of English currently used in over 2,500 schools, language institutes, universities and companies worldwide. In 2019 the company will extend the concept of learning languages with film clips and games to the learning of French, German and Spanish.