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

Building Companies Buyers Fight Over | BUYER Method: Think Like a Buyer From Day One | 4x Exit Founder, 200+ Deals | Build to Sell, Never Have To

Most founders try to grow by adding tools, taking on more, or pushing harder.
But the real problem isn’t effort - it’s dependency.

After 35+ years, 4 exits, and 200+ valuations, I’ve seen one pattern repeat across industries and continents:

Businesses don’t break because of markets.
They break because everything still runs through the founder.

I know this because I lived it.

I was the founder trapped in 80-hour weeks.

I was the operator carrying decisions no one else could make.

And I was also the buyer watching millions disappear from valuations because a company relied too heavily on its founder.

I built companies that succeeded on paper…
but cost me my time, health, and life.
Scale means nothing if you’re the one it’s scaling through.

That’s why I created the BUYER Method™ - the framework for founder optionality, leverage, and exit readiness.

It distills what actually makes a company both scalable and buyer-ready, long before an exit is even on the horizon.

🔹 The BUYER Method™: - Build Founder-Independent, Buyer-Ready Companies

B – Build systems, not dependencies
U – Understand what buyers value
Y – Yield control to multiply worth
E – Engineer your exit from day one
R – Replace yourself ruthlessly

🔹 What This Enables:

✓ Scale Without Chaos.
✓ Lead Without Burnout.
✓ Build Freedom Into Your Business From Day One.
✓ Build a business that becomes more valuable… not more dependent

🔹 Why This Works

It’s built from real experience:

✓ 4 companies built and exited
✓ 200+ deals evaluated on the private-equity buy side
✓ Founder, investor, and advisor helping entrepreneurs design companies that thrive independently

This isn’t theory - it’s what works in the boardroom, on the ground, and inside founder-led companies crossing 7 and 8 figures.

🔹 How We Can Work Together:

Expand your perspective ↓ 
The Founder’s Paradox Newsletter - weekly insights on freedom + value without the grind.

Eliminate your constraints ↓
The Bottleneck Audit - a 30-minute diagnostic to uncover why your business still depends on you.

Elevate your next chapter ↓
The BUYER Method™ Mastermind - an exclusive experience for founders ready to reclaim freedom and build transferable companies.

Or grab a Clarity Call: 
Founder to founder, let’s design the version of your business that gives you your life back.

👉 https://tidycal.com/martinwir/30-minute-clarity

Martin Wirtschafter

You’re not drowning in decisions.  
You’re drowning in needing to be the one who decides.

And that weight shows up
long before the burnout does.

A founder I worked with recently told me:

“I’m not tired from the work.
I’m tired from being the one everyone needs.”

So we ran a simple audit:

40 weekly decisions.
Most were tiny - approvals, clarifications, “quick” reviews.
But they carried emotional gravity, not operational value.

Here’s what changed in 10 weeks:

Those 40 daily decisions → 8 weekly decisions
through:
• guardrails
• clear decision gates
• written “what good looks like”
• and one dependency removed every Wednesday

He stopped waking up in reaction mode.
Mornings became calm again.
He told me,
“My mind finally feels quiet.”

But the real win wasn’t operational.
It was human.

He said:
“My daughter asked why I’m not on my phone at dinner anymore.”

That was the moment he returned.
Not just the business.

Freedom didn’t arrive from scaling harder.
It arrived from removing the identity that needed to be in every decision.

This is what Transferable Freedom actually does:

A business that works - and a founder who can finally breathe again.

Freedom isn’t found in fewer decisions. 
It’s found in no longer needing to make them.

When Everything Runs Through You, I Show You How to Step Back | 4× Exit Founder • PE Insider • Investor

You’re not overwhelmed - You’re over-relied on

Reading this on a Sunday
is often the first sign something’s off.

burnout rarely starts loud.
it starts with one quiet login.

He opened his laptop,
not out of urgency, but habit.

Most founders aren’t burnt out.
They’re bottlenecked.

And the symptoms show up quietly:

• everything still runs through you
• you can’t step back without disruption
• the team waits for your direction
• you haven’t had real thinking space in months
• success looks good, but it doesn’t feel good
  
If you’re here, you’re likely in the same tension:

You want to step back
but you don’t trust that things won’t break when you do.

That’s not a failure.
It’s a dependency system.

And it’s fixable.

If you want my help diagnosing where
your silent burden sits,
send me one word:

“optional.”

I’ll reply with the exact symptom pattern
that’s keeping you in operator mode
and the first step to move toward becoming
an Optional Founder.

you’re not overwhelmed - you’re over-involved.
and nothing drains a founder faster than being needed everywhere.

being essential isn’t leadership.
it’s just the most accepted form of fragility.

And you can see it in the moments
where everyone pauses,
waiting for you to decide something
they could have done themselves.

It’s a dependency system - one the business built around you
while you were building it.

And here’s the quiet truth:

Your business doesn’t rely on you
because you’re essential.
It relies on you because history 
made you the fastest path to clarity.

Every approval, every clarification, every “quick check”
built a culture where speed = proximity to the founder.

And here’s the paradox we were never taught:

The more necessary you become,
the more fragile the business becomes.

Dependency feels like leadership 
until it becomes the Silent Burden:

• no space to think
• no clean decisions
• constant reactivity
• identity shrinking
• presence replaced by vigilance

This is the part no one warns you about:

Essential founders don’t just lose time.
They lose altitude.

You’re not lacking strategy.
You’re lacking independence architecture 
the structure that lets standards hold
without your involvement.

When the business learns to move without you:
your value increases,
your team gets stronger,
and your life finally expands again.

Because leadership isn’t presence-by-necessity.
It’s clarity-by-design.

your business becomes stronger
the moment you stop being essential.

and so do you.

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