
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
European Sales
Neil, axle’s man in London, provides support, assistance, and outreach in the EMEA territories.

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 takes the lead on US West Coast and Asia-Pacific sales, bringing years of experience to every conversation.

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

Ahmed "Mimo" Chikhi
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.

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.