Mudar Yaghi is the CEO and founder of AppTek, an AI and machine learning company specializing in speech recognition and machine translation. AppTek has sold technology assets to SAIC in the fall of 2010 and its MT platform to eBay in 2014. Mudar is also a founding investor and board member of Ignite Media Solutions, a provider of interactive voice, web, and mobile direct response solutions that is backed by ABS Capital. He is also an investor and board member at TCOM, which is a telecommunication aerostat systems company.