Our Team

Even though we use web technology extensively in our products, our team believes there’s no substitute for direct contact with customers – whether in person, by phone, WhatsApp or email. We hope you can take some time to share your requirements with us, and look forward to continuing to sharpen our focus and rapidly evolve axle to meet the needs of the emerging market for affordable video workgroup tools.

We look forward to hearing from you at info@axle.ai or +1-617-262-9222

Sam Bogoch

CEO

Sam spent the last five years in director-level product design, product management and business development roles at Avid. Sam’s exclusive focus was Avid’s Interplay product line, which he helped grow from a very early 1.1 version into an industry leader. With axle, Sam brings years of media management experience to an emerging market of teams around the world in need of simple tools to manage their media.

Patrice Gouttebel

Product Manager

Before co-founding axle, Patrice spent seven years as the product manager (and previously customer support manager) for SeeFile, a lightweight digital asset management system for photography and print media. Patrice has extensive experience with web coding, user interface design, and perhaps most importantly, direct customer dialogue.

Steven Ryan

Lead Engineer

Before co-founding axle, Steve was the lead programmer on SeeFile, as well as a series of distributed processing and client-server software projects developed at Torque Systems. Steve has an in-depth background in coding, including years of experience developing compilers for Intergraph, an early RISC processor vendor.

Neil Blake

EMEA Region Manager

Neil, with decades of broadcast industry experience, manages our European business and also brings his decades of broadcast industry experience to bear for our largest customers worldwide.

Alex Hamilton

North American Sales

Alex heads our US East Coast sales from Philadelphia, bringing technical and product expertise to organizations around the continent.

Colin Anderson

West Coast Sales

Colin’s unique sales and support skills help our West coast customers get up to speed and in a position to manage their media quickly and effectively..

Yogesh Sardana

India Sales

Based in Mumbai, Yogesh manages our presence in India. He has a strong background in enterprise storage for the media and enterprise space, having previously worked at Quantum and Promise.

Rachel Fearon

Operations Manager

Rachel manages the day-to-day operations of the company. She has extensive backround in small business management and startups, as well as knowledge of web design and CSS, which can come in handy.

Ahmed “Mimo” Chikni

Lead Software Support / Solutions Architect

Mimo offers in-depth technical expertise to support axle customers, creates custom tools and solutions to assist with misbehaving hardware, and designs solutions for custom requests.

Elisa Hecker

Presales & Technical Support Coordination

Elisa assists with product demos and training, and helps the technical support team ensure that all requests are handled promptly.

Maris Dembovskis

Software Support

Maris joined the axle team in 2016. He works with our customers to provide software support as well as quality assurance of our software and workflow tools. Maris has Bachelor’s Degree in IT databases and administration.