Dimitri Boylan is the CEO of

Avature Avature is a privately-held global human capital management software as a service company. It is incorporated in London, United Kingdom, and operates subsidiaries in Argentina, Australia, China, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Avature of ...

, a

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Human Capital Management software company.

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) Forest Hills High School (FHHS) is a high school in Forest Hills, Queens, Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. Dedicated in 1937, it educates students in grades 9–12 and is operated by the New York City Department of Education. The school serves ...

. He has a B.A. in

biophysics Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. ...

from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

. He did postgraduate research in

X-ray crystallography X-ray crystallography is the experimental science determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract into many specific directions. By measuring the angles ...

at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

and published two papers, ''Large scale fluctuations of tropomyosin in the crystal'' in 1984 and ''Motions of tropomyosin: characterization of anisotropic motions and coupled displacements in crystals'' in 1986.

Career

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

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in 2002, while many other first generation dot coms were collapsing. HotJobs's Enterprise software product, built on the

Netscape Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California and then Dulles, Virginia. Its Netscape web browser was onc ...

browser, won the

Comdex COMDEX (an abbreviation of COMputer Dealers' EXhibition) was a computer expo trade show held in the Las Vegas Valley of Nevada, United States, each November from 1979 to 2003. It was one of the largest computer trade shows in the world, usually ...

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 New York Times, Business Week, Business Reporter, The New York Daily News, Investor’s Business Daily, and other print publications. He 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.

References

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