APEK.AI

Leading innovative tech company. APEK is a Virginia-based AI engineering and automation firm, specializing in the design, development, and deployment of advanced AI agents and enterprise automation solutions. With over 20 years of expertise, APEK empowers organizations and government agencies to transform operations, streamline workflows, and achieve measurable impact through custom AI systems and strategic advisory services.

CEO, Managing Partner

Voice2Me.ai

Voice2Me - owned by APEK.AI. Leading enterprise-grade AI voice technology innovation to transform customer experiences at scale. Pioneering multi-model AI architecture that delivers human-like conversations while handling thousands of concurrent interactions. Helping organizations reduce operational costs while enhancing customer satisfaction through voice intelligence solutions that bridge technology and humanity.

CEO, Chief AI Officer

Vector7.ai

As a founding council member of Vector7, I help shape an elite executive network uniting global leaders in AI, business, and policy. Vector7 provides a private, trusted arena where decision-makers exchange foresight, build influence, and remain relevant in the AI era.

Founding Council (Board Member)

The One 23 Group

Led post-M&A transformation and restructuring of government services platform company. Orchestrated migration to new ERP system in under 5 months while establishing GAAP and DCAA compliant business practices. Directed M&A due diligence activities and financial operations oversight.

Executive Vice President

Virtana Corp.

Driving operational transformation and strategic growth initiatives that resulted in 30% OPEX and 120% EBITDA improvement. Leading cross-functional teams to streamline business processes, establish corporate KPIs, and implement go-to-market strategies that improved ARR by 20%.

Executive Vice President of Operations

Siemens Government Technologies

Oversaw operational health of $500M+ federal IT portfolio serving USAF, DOD & DOE. Led execution excellence and compliance while building high-performing teams and establishing strategic partnerships.

Executive Director of Operations

General Dynamics Information Technology

Managed performance of $400M+ international portfolio across 50+ countries for USCIS. Built effective customer relationships while ensuring operational excellence and compliance in complex global environments.

Senior Director of Revenue Operations

Global Linguist Solutions, LLC

Led business account managers and program analysts overseeing $4.9 billion INSCOM international projects portfolio in the Middle East. Managed CONUS and OCONUS program functions and reporting.

Senior Operations & Strategy Advisor

Deltek

Led global SaaS software sales operations, driving team performance and quarterly target achievement through effective coaching and mentoring while growing company reputation through industry events.

Director of Sales Operations

Managed financial planning, compliance, and operational oversight for government contracting programs. Ensured contract compliance with federal regulations while optimizing program financial performance. Developed standardized reporting processes and implemented financial controls that improved program visibility and accountability across international operations.

International Program Coordinator

At 19, I left home and moved to another country with no money, no safety net, and no plan - just the belief that I was meant for more.

Since then, I’ve walked through fire more than once: divorces, parenting alone, financial struggles, personal losses, and making bold moves of leaving a successful corporate career, to rebuild my life totally from scratch…

Each chapter of this journey was not easy and sometimes terrifying, yet it became important stepping stones of who I am today.

It is what allows me to do what I do best - 
help leaders and organizations evolve through change with clarity, courage, and connection.

⭐️ Who I Am

I help organizations bridge human intelligence and artificial intelligence through agentic voice technologies, leadership enablement, and transformation strategy.

My mission: make AI adoption feel human, effortless, and profitable.

I’m CEO of APEK.ai, leading teams that build secure Agentic AI & Voice Solutions for Enterprise - helping organizations modernize operations and humanize their communication through intelligent automation.

With over 20 years in enterprise transformation, leadership strategy, and reinvention, I blend AI innovation with human insight to help people and businesses grow from the inside out.


⁉️Who I Help

	•	Enterprises ready to evolve beyond legacy systems and embrace secure, human-centric AI.
	•	Executives and founders navigating reinvention, burnout, or uncertainty about their next chapter.
	•	Leaders in transition who look successful on paper but quietly ask, “What’s next for me?”

When People Come to Me (and my team)

They come when success feels heavy, change feels impossible, or they’ve outgrown the version of themselves they used to be.
They come when transformation stops being a concept - and becomes personal.

💡 My Belief

True reinvention happens when technology and humanity evolve together.

That’s why my mission is to help people and organizations:
	•	Adopt AI intelligently.
	•	Reinvent fearlessly.
	•	Lead with voice, not noise.


Eva Karnaukh

One of the hardest lessons adulthood teaches you is this:

Not everything in your life deserves an audience.

👉 Privacy is power.
👉 Not secrecy.
👉 Not isolation.

Just the awareness that some things thrive when they’re protected, not publicized.

Here are a few things wise people keep quiet:

1️⃣ Your exact income or savings
👉 Not everyone needs access to your numbers

2️⃣ Your next big move
👉 Work in silence. Let results introduce you.

3️⃣ Your family issues
👉 Healing happens in safe spaces, not public conversations.

4️⃣ Your insecurities
👉 Share them with people who help you grow, not those who weaponize them.

5️⃣ Your money struggles
👉 Many will judge before they understand. Protect your peace while you rebuild.

6️⃣ Others’ secrets
👉 If someone trusted you, honor that trust - it says more about you than them.

The older I get, the more I see that maturity isn’t about being open with everything…
It’s about being intentional.

Your life elevates the moment you stop oversharing and start curating who gets access to you.

What’s one thing you’ve learned to keep private?

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CEO APEK.ai | AI and Human Dynamics | Guiding leaders to align tech, people and decisions to elevate performance and reinvent in the AI era

Hannah Parvaz

Aperture

The Most Innovative Growth Agency of the Year. 

Award-winning ads, creative, & product.

Aperture is the growth agency specialising in full funnel optimisation, from creative advertising to product optimisation. Some of the companies we've worked with are Memrise, TomTom, The Smurfs, OPH, and PhotoSi.

🏆 Most Innovative Business Growth Agency 2024
🏆 Business Strategy Consultant of the Year 2024
🏆 Business Strategy Consultant of the Year 2023
🏆 Finalist for The Drum's Agency of the Year 2023

Hosted: 
❤️‍🔥 App Promotion Summit - San Francisco 2024
❤️‍🔥 MAD//FEST London - 2024
❤️‍🔥 App Promotion Summit - London 2024
❤️‍🔥 App Promotion Summit - Berlin 2023

Spoken at: 
🎤 App Growth Connects - How to nail your creative everywhere 💅🏽 
🎤 App Growth Summit Austin - Gaining Growth: Acquisition Channels Which Work Best in the New Privacy Landscape
🎤 App Growth Summit Berlin - Mastering App Store Optimization and Apple Search Ads
🎤 App Growth Summit Berlin - Crafting Immersive Experiences: Long-Term Engagement and Retention
🎤 App Growth Summit London - Embracing Innovation: Merging Strategy with Sustainable Success
🎤 App Growth Summit Los Angeles - How to grow by understanding your customers
🎤 App Growth Summit San Francisco - Onboarding & Engagement Strategies to Limit Churn
🎤 App Masters Podcast - The ULTIMATE Mobile App Sales Funnel
🎤 App Promotion Summit - Supercharging your app engagement and retention
🎤 Branch - Mobile Industry Leaders Summit
🎤 Growth Masterminds - How to do your most impactful work
🎤 In Growth We Trust - A Mobile App Marketing Masterclass, App Tracking and ATT insights
🎤 Indie Heroes - Virtual Bootcamp and teardown
🎤 The Mobile User Acquisition Show - How to talk to your customers in order to make winning ads
🎤 SubClub - App Optimization Through Experimentation
🎤 Subscription League - Tips for creating the right mindset for business growth
https://www.hannahparvaz.com/speaking

Founder

SYSTM (Formerly Startup Core Strengths)

B2C and Mobile App Coach

Regular talks:
Creative best practices
5 steps to grow your app
Advertising post IDFA
Mobile app marketing masterclass

Coach

GrowthMentor

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

Chat with me here: https://www.growthmentor.com/?ref=hannahparvaz

Maintained perfect 5-star rating across sessions with 200+ companies. 

Mentored founders and C-Suite from companies: 
Nude https://www.getnude.com/
Mindfulness https://mindfulness.com/
Strong https://www.strong.app/
Circa5000 https://circa5000.com/
ProductLed Institute http://productled.com/
Huddol https://www.huddol.com/
Pluto https://pluto.travel/

Growth Mentor

Aphael

Getting my hands in lots of pies.

Need more info? Property. Investing. Advising.

Owner & Director

Your Juno

We want to give women and non-binary people the financial knowledge and confidence to build their wealth.

As seen in
✨ Financial Times
✨ Business Insider
✨ Glamour
✨ Stylist

Advisor

Uptime

Thousands of 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world's best books, courses and documentaries.

🏆 Subscription App Campaign of the Year 2021
🏆 Google Play’s Best Apps of 2021
🏆 FastCompany’s Best Apps of 2021

Led viral campaigns, drove insane growth, and built an incredible, high performing team which drove 1M downloads in 1 year after launch.

Talks:
App Growth Summit - How we 5xd our organic traffic in 2 months
Bango - UA masterclass for app marketers
CHS - Getting started with app marketing
Remerge - Optimizing your website to drive downloads
SpeakHer - How we 5xd our organic traffic in 2 months

Head Of Marketing

Thriva Health

Heights

Curio

Delivering incredible audio to your ears.

Second hire. Led growth through $9M Series A fundraise.

Awards for work at Curio:
App Marketer of the Year 2019
Paid User Acquisition Campaign of the Year 2019
One of the 13 most persuasive ads ever seen on Wordstream


Talks:
Adjust's Mobile Afternoon Tea Talks - UA, retention, and the rise of audio
App Promotion Summit Berlin - The future of app growth
App Promotion Summit London - Five Lessons Learned Advertising on Social Platforms
App Promotion Summit New York WFH - The story behind the no. 1 paid app campaign of the year
AppFollow webinar - How one ad became the user acquisition campaign of the year
Business of Apps webinar - The end of IDFA and new opportunities for app monetisation
Creative Entrepreneurs webinar - How to nail advertising
Mobile Growth Summit - Creatve Best Practices
MoEngage #Growth - Leveraging data analytics for Growth Marketing

Podcasts:
Business of Apps - Paid social campaigns
GrowthMentor - Growth, experiments, and startups
Implement - Leading Growth to Series A
Mobile Growth and Pancakes - Ad Automation & Creative Strategies

Head of Growth

Google

Mentor

Award-winning growth expert, international keynote speaker, and founder of Aperture - the Most Innovative Growth Agency of the Year.

I've spent over a decade in house building and scaling. I create products people want to use and grow brands that people want to engage with. 

Led growth through many successful fundraises and taken companies from pre-launch to millions of users.

🏆 App Marketer of the Year
🏆 2x Business Strategy Consultant of the Year
🏆 Acquisition Campaign of the Year (Quit social media)
🏆 Advertising Campaign of the Year (Become the most interesting person in the room)
🏆 Most Innovative Growth Agency 2024

❤️‍🔥 Launched and scaled 3 products to 1M+ users
❤️‍🔥 Increased conversion rate for an app by 250%
❤️‍🔥 Increased YoY KPIs of conversions, installs, and registrations by over 500% for an app
❤️‍🔥 Coached for Google
❤️‍🔥 4x Head of Growth
❤️‍🔥 Advisor to top startups

I can help you:
🌞 Run ads across all main channels, inc Meta, Google, TikTok
👀 Find your big growth levers
❤️‍🔥 Product-led growth
🤝 Analyse behaviour and performance
💼 Founder & C-suite coaching 
📈 Prioritisation and experimentation
🧪 Build in-house growth systems
👩🏽‍🔬 Turn advertising into a science
💰 Optimise pricing and monetisation
🤓 Understand your customers 
🔎 Test messaging
💪 Teach you to do it all yourself with workshops and coaching

Working with purpose-driven companies to help them grow. 

Spoken at: 

App Growth Summit Austin - Gaining Growth: Acquisition Channels Which Work Best in the New Privacy Landscape
App Growth Summit Los Angeles - How to grow by understanding your customers
App Growth Summit San Francisco - Keep 'em Coming Back! Onboarding & Engagement Strategies to Limit Churn
App Masters Podcast - The ULTIMATE Mobile App Sales Funnel
Branch - Mobile Industry Leaders Summit
Indie Heroes - Virtual Bootcamp and teardown
The Mobile User Acquisition Show - How to talk to your customers in order to make winning ads
Subscription League - Tips for creating the right mindset for business growth

Aperture is 3 today 🫨🥳💕

Which also means I’ve officially held this job longer than anything else in my entire career...

Three years ago it was literally just me, my laptop, a messy Google Doc of ideas, and the kind of chaotic optimism that only appears when you haven’t quite realised what you’ve signed yourself up for.

I didn’t even have a name at the start.

I just had this feeling that growth could be done properly, that founders deserved clearer thinking, cleaner funnels, sharper creative, and someone who actually cared enough to get in the trenches with them.

The early days were wild.

I was doing strategy calls from my living room floor, building dashboards at midnight, rewriting ad copy from airport lounges, and saying yes to projects because I genuinely loved figuring things out.

And somehow, bit by bit, it grew.

We worked with apps I used to admire from afar.

We rebuilt onboarding flows that doubled conversion.

We fixed tracking setups that were basically ancient ruins.

We ran creative tests that turned into full company strategies.

I’ve had founders message me screenshots at 1am because something finally worked.

Those moments never get old.

And then the team happened.
The most unexpected, magical part of all of this.

People who think deeply, ask better questions, spot patterns in chaos, care about the craft, and make working together feel like an actual joy.
I still can’t believe I get to do this with them. 

Will Wheeler Niall R. Abigail Laurel M. Gianmarco Guzman Nico B. Varen Acuña Lexi Margaux C. Tim Clarke Niklas Henckell Léa Samrani 🔥

And then the community happened too.

Aperture Sessions started as a tiny idea and somehow became these wholesome, energising gatherings that make me feel like I’ve found my people in every city.

London, Berlin, Istanbul, Vegas: acai bowls, friendship bracelets, stickers, socks, founders chatting like old friends. All of it has been surreal in the best way.

Building Aperture has stretched me, challenged me, surprised me, and taught me what kind of work I want to do for the rest of my life.

Three years in and it still feels like chapter one.

To every founder and team who has trusted us, backed us, argued with us, experimented with us, grown with us, and made more money with us, thank you. None of this happens without you. Every insight, every test, every win has come from people who were brave enough to try things with us. I’m grateful for every single one of you.

If you’re building something interesting and want to talk growth, creative, funnels, signals, onboarding, or just feel seen in the chaos of building: my inbox is always open.

If you're in Berlin, come party with us tonight, or see you at Business of Apps tomorrow 🔥

THURSDAY.
Berlin. Business of Apps. Let’s go 🔥

I’m hosting a live Q&A on full funnel growth and I’m genuinely buzzing for this one.

If you’ve been around a while, you’ll know I love this event.

Business of Apps Berlin, formerly APS, has been part of my growth journey for years.

Some of my favourite conversations, favourite founders and favourite “I need to write that down” moments happened in these rooms.

And this year I’m talking about something every team is feeling right now:
the full funnel advantage.

👩🏽‍💻 How to make the algorithm work harder for you.
💪 How to squeeze real learnings from your creatives.
🕵🏽‍♀️ How to stop losing people in the first 120 seconds after download.
🤝 And how to turn paid, product, data and CRM into one machine.

If you're around Berlin this week, come say hi.
If you’re joining the session, bring your questions.

And if you want case studies of companies we’ve scaled (cheeky), DM me and we'll send them your way.

Excited to do my brand new talk Building Your 2026 Creative OS tomorrow for the first time at the Female Founders Rise Summit at Google Cloud HQ tomorrow 🔥

Super excited to be hosting our Female Founders Rise Summit with HSBC at Google Cloud tomorrow.


We have a jam-packed day full of founders showcasing, expert talks and sessions with lots of structured networking throughout.

There are many new friends to be made with 150+ attendees

Check out what is going on in the brochure below 👇

Speakers + founders:
Tom Wood
Megan Watkins
Zuzanna Politowicz
Debbie Zaman
Bharti Radix
Laura Keith
Alison Burton
Natalie Duvall
Kerran Kaur
Jade Buffong-Phillips
Eniye Okah
Hannah Parvaz
Jasmin Harsono
Rebekah Clark FRSA
Shona Beats
Geoff Dragon
Elena Kovalikhina
Sapna Shah
Taryn R.


Debbie Clarke and Emmie Faust will be our summit co-hosts.

Natasha Marie Ahmed, Sarah Ellis Davies, and  Nonie M C White FRSA are welcoming everyone with a friendly face!

Thanks to Ally Clegg, Purdey Miles, Neil Lock Emma Osman for always supporting us at Google Cloud.
And all at HSBC - Taryn R. and Tammy Shepherd, and team.

Please come ready to capture some brilliant moments and celebrate all those involved!

Female Founders Rise Summit Brochure 2025

🚀 It’s here. The Ultimate Guide to App Monetization 2026.

After months of research, interviews and collaboration with some of the sharpest minds in mobile, we’re excited to release something big.

🔥The Ultimate Guide to App Monetization 2026🔥
A 40 page playbook that breaks down where the industry is heading and how top teams are actually building high performing monetization engines today.

This is not another theory deck.
It is practical. Actionable. Built to be used.
And packed with ready to use templates, checklists and frameworks.

What’s inside:

✅ The complete modern monetization tech stack (with tool recommendations)
✅ Monetization funnel playbook with "quick wins" for each stage
✅ Event tracking blueprint & metrics sheet (LTV, CAC, ROAS & more)
✅ Subscription pricing checklist & tech stack audit template
✅ Deep dives on hybrid models, pricing optimization and timing strategies
✅ Future-proofing insights: DMA, DFA, Web3 and what's next

And most importantly: it features the insights of incredible contributors who shared their expertise with full honesty and conviction.
A huge thank you to: Eric Seufert, Sylvain Gauchet, Andrew Davies, Hannah Parvaz, Matej 🦩 Lancaric, Adam Jaffe, Jeff Grang, Ben Jeger,Eric Crowley and many more!
Your voices shaped this into something truly valuable for the industry.

Why we built it:
Monetization is changing fast, but the fundamentals are getting clearer.
Teams do not need more hacks. They need a system.
This playbook gives you one.

If you work in growth, product, monetization or data: bookmark it. Share it. Put it into your 2026 planning.

👇 Download the full playbook: https://lnkd.in/dGB26wZq

Let’s make 2026 the year we build apps users love to use and do not mind paying for 💜

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