Dimitri Boylan

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.

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] 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,[7] Fox News,[8] The Fox News’ Cavuto Report,[9] and CNBC Power Lunch, and has been featured in The New York Times,[10][11] Business Week,[12] Business Reporter,[13] 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.[14] In 2004 Dimitri founded Avature.[15]