AXLE-VIDEO.COM - Key Persons


Ahmed "Mimo" Chikhi

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Alex Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • North American Sales
Alex heads our US East Coast sales from Philadelphia, bringing technical and product expertise to organizations around the continent.

Colin Anderson

Job Titles:
  • West Coast Sales
Colin takes the lead on US West Coast and Asia-Pacific sales, bringing years of experience to every conversation.

Elisa Hecker

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Neil Blake

Job Titles:
  • European Sales
Neil, axle's man in London, provides support, assistance, and outreach in the EMEA territories.

Patrice Gouttebel

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Sam Bogoch - CEO

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Steven Ryan

Job Titles:
  • 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.