Draft:Dimitri Boylan

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
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 Large scale fluctuations of tropomyosin in the crystal in the Journal of the American Crystallographic Association in 1984 and, Motions of tropomyosin: characterization of anisotropic motions and coupled displacements in crystals  in Biophysics Journal in 1986.

Career
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. 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, became profitable in 2001 and was sold to Yahoo! in 2002, 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, Fox News, The Fox News’ Cavuto Report, and CNBC Power Lunch, and has been featured in the undergraduate marketing text book Marketing: Real People Real Choices (3rd edition), The New York Times, Business Week, Business Reporter, the Los Angeles Times,  The Washington Post, The Street.com, 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. In 2004 Dimitri founded Avature, a SaaS company that provides services to multinational companies and government agencies, and frequently works on issues relating to AI  and cybersercurity. Dimitri currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology Chair for the Universidad del País Vasco, Spain.