Dimitri Boylan is an American businessman and the CEO of Avature, a Web 2.0 Human Capital Management software company.

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 successfully Internet companies to emerge form the late '90s' dot com era. It became profitable in 2001 and was sold to Yahoo!

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

 in 2002, while many other first generation dot coms were collapsing.

HotJobs's Enterprise software product, built on the Netscape

Netscape

Netscape Communications is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California...

 browser, won the Comdex

COMDEX

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 award for Best Network Product in 1998.

Dimitri serves on the Board of Directors of Beijing based Internet company Zhaopin.com, a leading Employment Site.

Education

Boylan has a B.A. in biophysics

Biophysics

Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that uses the methods of physical science to study biological systems. Studies included under the branches of biophysics span all levels of biological organization, from the molecular scale to whole organisms and ecosystems...

 from the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

Boylan did graduate research in X-ray crystallography

X-ray crystallography

X-ray crystallography is a method of determining the arrangement of atoms within a crystal, in which a beam of X-rays strikes a crystal and causes the beam of light to spread into many specific directions. From the angles and intensities of these diffracted beams, a crystallographer can produce a...

 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

Some articles written by Boylan

• http://en.scientificcommons.org/dimitri_boylan Biophysical Journal

External links

• http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/college/boylan_hotjobs.html Fox Leadership Series
• http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-7345438_ITM Investor's Business Daily
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1731251.stm BBC
• http://www.avature.net/en/about-us/our-team/
• http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40497,00.html Fox News
• http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/04/sm.03.html CNN
• http://www.itjj.net/net/zhaopin/20080217/275760.html
• http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4070/is_/ai_86432132
• http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_02/b3765083.htm Business Week
• http://www.generation.com/casestudies_hotjobs.html Generation Partners
• http://www.startup-review.com/blog/hotjobs-case-study-vertical-market-entry-strategy-the-key.php#post