Company

Shelly Freeman

President and Chief Executive Officer

Shelly brings over 20+ years of experience in SaaS, AI and technology. Her experience extends into all organizational areas and she has successfully helped organizations scale to their next level of success. She holds an Executive MBA from the University of Washington and a Business/Corporate Communications degree from Pacific Lutheran University.

Alex Khmelnisky

Chief Scientist

As one of the original members of BoldIQ, Alex’s contribution as the Chief Scientist over the past 10+ years has been invaluable as we continue to evolve our core platform engine. Alex holds a PhD from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Eugene Taits

Chief Technology Officer

Eugene is also one of the original members of BoldIQ. He brings a wealth of industry knowledge and an extensive background in Physics and Engineering, which have led to the successful development of our sophisticated software platform. Eugene holds a PhD in Physics from Belarusian State Technological University.

Debbie Walford

Chief Financial Officer

Debbie has nearly 35 years of financial accounting experience, beginning her career as an auditor at KPMG. She transitioned into corporate accounting and finance where her experience extends into manufacturing, distribution, and aircraft leasing.  She has a BA in Accounting from Western Washington University and became a licensed CPA in the state of Washington in 1990.

Eyal Levy

Chairman of the Board

Eyal has been the Executive Chairman of BoldIQ since its inception in 2008. He is a managing partner at GTD Capital LLC, the largest investor at BoldIQ. He was a founding Partner of AIG Orion, a technology venture fund focused on Israeli companies, and was COO of Pi Corp. (sold to EMC). Eyal served as President & CEO of Pelephone Communications, Israel’s first and leading cellular carrier, and served as VP of Personal Communication Products at Motorola. Eyal was a co-founder and CEO of Medicom Computers which merged with Ready Systems (acquired by Mentor Graphics) where he served as General Manager and VP of Engineering. He was on the Faculty of the Tel Aviv University Computer Science department specializing in Database Management Systems and Software Engineering.

Michael Brown

Mike held a number of roles at Microsoft Corporation, including as the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Microsoft Corporation. Prior to Microsoft, he spent 18 years with Deloitte & Touche LLP in various positions including Managing Partner. He also served as the Chairman of Nasdaq, Inc. (alternate name, The Nasdaq OMX Group, Inc.). He has been an Independent Director at VMware, Inc. and continues to serve on a number of boards today.

Paul Maritz

Paul served as the Chief Strategist at Dell EMC. He also served as the CEO of VMWare. Prior to joining VMware, he was President of Dell EMC’s Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division after Dell EMC acquired Pi Corporation, where he was a founder and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Before founding Pi, Paul spent 14 years working at Microsoft Corporation, where he served as a member of the five-person Executive Committee that managed the company.

Yakov Friedman

Yakov has served as an investment analyst and fixed income/credit derivatives trader for the Friedberg Mercantile Group Ltd. in Toronto, Canada since 2001. In addition, he has negotiated numerous transactions on behalf of affiliates of FMGL and continues to represent these entities. Yakov holds an MBA, a BAS and an LLB from York University. He was formerly a member of the Board of Directors of BiolineRx Ltd. and serves on several charitable foundation boards.

Ed Iacobucci, the former founder and CEO of Citrix and a software industry veteran decided to evolve his passion for aviation. En-route, he assembled a group of versatile and diverse software professionals and mathematicians that developed a sophisticated platform, providing an extremely efficient solution to manage on-demand scheduling for an air taxi service. The core components of the technology were a state-of-the-art operations management system and an integrated resource scheduling system.

When market conditions became more challenging in 2008, a group of investors lead by GTD Capital and United Technologies identified the opportunity to take the original on-demand scheduling software, and the value it provided, to other business aviation operators and into other vertical markets, which resulted in the founding of BoldIQ in September of 2008.

Over the course of the first six years of operations, BoldIQ productized its technology and acquired its first six business aviation customers in the USA and Europe. In 2014, the company signed an agreement with Jeppesen (a Boeing Company) to distribute its Astro Operations Manager and the Solver Realtime Resources Scheduling products in the Business Aviation market. At the same time, the company acquired its first customers for on-demand scheduling in the transportation, mobile workforce, utilities and distribution markets.

Currently, BoldIQ is bringing its real-time, on-demand scheduling solutions to aviation, logistics and other complex and essential industries.

These industries are continuously faced with demands to do more with the same or even less resources than previously. Solver delivers a proven way to unlock hidden value, with users reporting they free up to 30% of their resources and reduce operating costs by up to 25%, resulting in an increase in profitability of up to 20%.