Draft:Dimitri Boylan

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Dimitri Boylan
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Born (1960-12-21) December 21, 1960 (age 63)
Montpelier, Ohio
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA biophysics)
Occupation(s)Businessman, investor


Dimitri Boylan (born 1960) is businessman, entrepreneur, and investor. He is the founder and CEO of Avature, a Web 2.0 Human Capital Management Software as a Service (SaaS) company. And he was the co-founder and former CEO of Hotjobs.

Early life and education[edit]

Dimitri was born in Ohio to Irish immigrant parents. His father was an electrician from Cavan and his mother was a nurse from county Cork, Ireland. He was raised in New York City and graduated from Forest Hills High School (New York). He has a B.A. in biophysics from the University of Pennsylvania. He did postgraduate research in X-ray crystallography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and published two papers, Large scale fluctuations of tropomyosin in the crystal[1] in 1984 and Motions of tropomyosin: characterization of anisotropic motions and coupled displacements in crystals[2] in 1986.

Career[edit]

Dimitri is the founder and CEO of Avature. Avature is a Human Capital SaaS that provides services primarily to large multinational companies and government agencies. Avature was founded in 2005 and has operating affiliates in the US, UK, Germany, Spain, Argentina, Australia, and China. Prior to Avature, Dimitri Boylan co-founded and was the COO and later CEO of Hotjobs.com.[3] HotJobs.com was a New York-based Internet Services company and one of the most successful Internet companies to emerge from the late '90s' dot com era. HotJobs went public on the NASDAQ in 1999,[4] became profitable in 2001[5] and was sold to Yahoo! in 2002,[6] [7] while many other first generation dot coms were collapsing. HotJobs's Enterprise software product, built on the Netscape browser, won the Comdex award for Best Network Product in 1998.

Dimitri is a noted authority on the labor market and has appeared on CNN,[8] Fox News,[9] The Fox News’ Cavuto Report,[10] and CNBC Power Lunch, and has been featured in the undergraduate marketing text book Marketing: Real People Real Choices (3rd edition), [11] The New York Times,[12][13] Business Week,[14] Business Reporter,[15] the Los Angeles Times,[16][17] The Washington Post,[18] The Street.com, [19] The New York Daily News, Investor’s Business Daily, and other print publications. He invested and served on the Board of Directors of Beijing-based Internet company Zhaopin.com, a leading Chinese employment site for six years. Zhaopin went public on the NYSE in 2014.[20] [21] In 2004 Dimitri founded Avature, [22][23] a SaaS company that provides services to multinational companies and government agencies, and frequently works on issues relating to AI [24][25] and cybersercurity[26]. Dimitri currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology Chair for the Universidad del País Vasco, Spain.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Large scale fluctuations of tropomyosin in the crystal
  2. ^ Motions of tropomyosin: characterization of anisotropic motions and coupled displacements in crystals
  3. ^ "Case Studies: hotjobs.com". Generation Partners. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  4. ^ "HOTJOBS COM LTD (HOTJ)". NASDAQ.
  5. ^ "HotJobs Case Study: Vertical market entry strategy the key". startup-review.com. March 4, 2007. Archived from the original on January 29, 2009. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  6. ^ "Yahoo enters jobs market". 2001-12-27. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  7. ^ Sorkin, Andrew Ross (December 25, 2001). "HotJobs.com Tells Suitor to Surpass a Rival Bid From Yahoo". The New York Times.
  8. ^ "CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: How do You Find a Job in Today's Economic World? - February 4, 2001". transcripts.cnn.com. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  9. ^ "Dimitri Boylan, CEO of Hotjobs.com". Fox News. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  10. ^ "Cavuto Transcript: Dimitri Boylan, CEO of HotJobs.com". Fox News. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  11. ^ Solomon, Michael R.; Stuart, Elnora W. (January 1, 2002). Marketing: Real People, Real Choices (3 Illustrated ed.). Prentice Hall. pp. 1–6. ISBN 0130351342.
  12. ^ "Yahoo Wins Race for HotJobs As TMP Declines to Raise Bid". The New York Times. 2001-12-27.
  13. ^ "Mr. Semel's Internet Search; How a Former Hollywood Man Is Trying to Make Yahoo Click". The New York Times. 2002-01-07.
  14. ^ "BW Online | January 14, 2002 | The Bids Sure Are Getting Hostile". 2002-02-16. Archived from the original on 2002-02-16. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  15. ^ How an empowered workforce can power your business, archived from the original on 2021-12-15, retrieved 2020-02-03
  16. ^ "Functions of Job-Search Dot-Coms Evolving". Los Angeles Times. August 8, 2000.
  17. ^ "Yahoo Says HotJobs CEO to Step Down". Los Angeles Times. March 21, 2002.
  18. ^ "CareerBuilder Alters Focus Online Job Site Deepens Ties With Newspapers". The Washington Post. January 21, 2002.
  19. ^ "HotJobs Founder Leaves Yahoo! to Find a New One". The Street. 20 March 2002.
  20. ^ "Zhaopin IPO raises $76m on NYSE". China Daily.
  21. ^ Magnier, Mark. "Zhaopin Shares Rise in Trading Debut". WSJ. The Wall Street Journal.
  22. ^ "The Top 100 Software Companies of 2020". The Software Report. 21 July 2020. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  23. ^ "Our Team". Avature. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  24. ^ "The University of the Basque Country and Avature Are Selected to Launch the First Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology". Yahoo!. 30 January 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
  25. ^ "UPV/EHUk eta Avaturek lehenengo Adimen Artifizial eta Lengoaiaren Teknologiako Katedra bultzatu dute" (PDF). HiTZ: Basque Center for Language Technology Universidad del Pais Vasco.
  26. ^ "Avature's Dimitri Boylan on cybersecurity in 2021". FedSCoop. September 2021.
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