Svetlozar Aleksiev, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Svetlozar Online Ltd., oversees the daily operations of the company, including upcoming publications, service management and customer relations.
Svetlozar also serves as editor-in-chief of Svetlozar Online, supervising reports, analyses and commentaries, and frequently writes editorial columns on wide-ranging technology issues of significant importance.
In 1999, Svetlozar Aleksiev helped launch Online Help -- a unique and innovative service offering free, personalized assistance on computer and networking topics. Over a period of 11 months, Svetlozar Online's team produced nearly 9,000 professional responses to a wide array of questions -- from dealing with computer viruses and malicious programs to configuring hardware platforms in specific, task-oriented environments.
In September 2002, Svetlozar founded Svetlozar Online Ltd. with the mission to further explore the technological achievements leading the world's economic and social progress, to advance towards disseminating knowledge and constructive awareness about the impacts of information technology on humanity.
Eight months later, with Svetlozar Aleksiev's active involvement, Svetlozar Online released an exlusive, in-depth report on the music, movie and software piracy industry in Bulgaria, shedding light on an underestimated problem with far-reaching ramifications. Svetlozar led a large-scale journalistic investigation on a host of major Bulgarian Internet Service Providers (ISPs), attracting clients with tempting offers of free, unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of songs, movies, games and business applications.
Today, Svetlozar is actively involved in the production of Svetlozar Online's upcoming Computer Dictionary, aiming to provide up-to-date information about the technologies, the companies, and the people that drive the IT sector.
In addition, he regularly contributes reports to
Download.BG (formerly called Business Software Magazine), a popular Bulgarian publication, focusing on software applications of use to both home and business computer users.
Svetlozar has excellent programming skills in various languages and operating environments, and is fluent in English and Bulgarian.