Aivars is a global entrepreneur and Founder of IT Capital. Aivars is best known for his skills in identifying new business opportunities and re-engineering existing businesses to make them profitable. His ability to identify patterns in business cycles as they occur across the globe led him to start blogging in 2006 about global economics and he accurately predicted the 2008 financial crisis. He is the author of three books on the future of global economics. Aivars continues to identify best practices, people, processes and technology deployed elsewhere in the world and bring them to the USA.In the early 2000s Aivars founded Avantcé, a private equity firm, in order to invest in software companies. Aivars was instrumental in investments such as Robocom Systems Intl, Select Business Solutions, Radcliffe, ADT, Aviva Solutions and ROI. Aivars has been retained by private equity firms CVC Capital Partners, Golden Gate Capital, Bain Capital and Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe to advise on their acquisition strategies in Software.Prior to founding Avantcé, Aivars was Group President of Descartes Systems Group. Aivars led the company's global expansion efforts, achieving profitable growth and completing the successful acquisition/consolidation of two EDI businesses. Prior to that, Aivars was with Oracle heading up Applications Software for Australasia. Aivars first entered the tech industry in 1991, when he joined Dun & Bradstreet Software. Prior to that he held various management positions, including COO, CFO and CIO roles in public and private corporations. Throughout his career Aivars has lived in Australia, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong and has conducted business in most industrialized countries. Aivars holds a B Bus, Acct from Swinburne University in Australia. Aivars is an Ambassador for The Transparency Task Force, a collaborative, campaigning community dedicated to driving up levels of transparency in financial services around the world.