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Rado Nikolov Wants to Give Old Software an X-Ray
After building mission-critical systems and marketing IBM middleware, Rado Nikolov found a durable obsession: making sprawling software understandable before anyone tries to change it.
Jack Singh Put His Career in a Spreadsheet. The Answer Was Avahi
The Avahi founder learned business from the packaging bench to the partner channel. Now his operating system is a curious mix of spreadsheets, candid feedback and a bias for shipping AI that earns its keep.
Miten Marfatia Has Spent 25 Years Teaching Old Code New Tricks
Long before legacy software became an AI talking point, the EvolveWare founder was turning source code into something organizations could read, test and change - one cautious phase at a time.
Adam Branch Sold the Old Playbook. Now He Is Mapping the Rules Nobody Wrote Down
After building a federal technology firm into a $255 million acquisition, Adam Branch returned to the least glamorous problem in software: the rules buried inside old systems. Rhino.ai is his second attempt to turn institutional memory into infrastructure.
Armeen Mazda Took the Long Way to Modern Software
For more than two decades, Appeon's CEO has argued that modernization should preserve what already works. His career is a case study in patient infrastructure, customer-led roadmaps, and the quiet economics of helping old software move forward.
Ioan Iacob
Ioan Iacob is the founder and CEO of FlowX.AI, an AI-native platform that helps large banks and insurers modernize mission-critical software in weeks instead of years. A Romanian engineer and repeat entrepreneur, he earned a computer science degree from Politehnica University of Bucharest, worked at companies including Adobe and IBM, and co-founded the tech services firm Qualitance before launching FlowX.AI in 2021. In 2023 the company raised a $35 million Series A led by Dawn Capital, at the time reported as the largest enterprise-software Series A in Europe in two years. His pitch is blunt: bring real innovation to the enterprise software that quietly runs the world.
Joe Zarrehparvar
Joe Zarrehparvar is the President and CEO of Fresche Solutions, a Montreal-based IT advisory and modernization company specializing in IBM i (AS/400) systems serving 22,000+ global clients. A 30-year technology veteran who built his career at Microsoft, Juniper Networks, and Wicresoft, Zarrehparvar took the helm at Fresche in May 2023 and has since driven a wave of AI-powered modernization tools, strategic partnerships with IBM, and a transition to subscription-based service models - all while championing a platform-neutral approach that lets clients modernize on their own terms.
Rakesh Vartak
Rakesh Vartak is the CEO of WAI Technologies, a Santa Clara-based AI-powered software and Microsoft solutions company with 250+ employees and offices in the US and India. With over 30 years in IT and ITES, he leads a company building next-generation developer platforms - including AI Pundit (spec-driven AI development) and Raaghu (open-source React design system) - that promise to deliver digital transformation 3x faster for enterprises across healthcare, finance, and logistics.