Aivars is a global entrepreneur and Founder of IT Capital a private equity firm, in order to invest in software companies numerous providing healthcare solutions.  Aivars is best known for his skills in identifying new business opportunities and re-engineering existing industries and businesses to drive transformed outcomes for all stake holders. 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 (available at aivarslode.blogspot.com).
Throughout his career Aivars has lived in Australia, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, USA and has conducted business in most of the industrialized countries in the world.