Mark Haidar

The Last Word: Dialexa Co-Founders on How They Started Their Company, Which Was Just Acquired by IBM, With a Beer

by | Oct 6, 2022
Late last month, IBM acquired Dallas-based digital product engineering services firm Dialexa “to deepen its product engineering expertise and provide end-to-end digital transformation services for clients.” Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. But this week the company's co-founders, Scott Harper and Mark Haidar, disclosed something else on LinkedIn: How they both quit their jobs 12 years ago to launch a new adventure that would become Dialexa.
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IBM Acquires Dallas’ Dialexa to Tap Its Product Engineering Expertise
by | Sep 22, 2022
From hanging hula hoops on its ceilings for drone races to designing a lawn-mowing robot app to developing a platform that trains human brains, Dallas-based Dialexa does things different. Now—with its acquisition by IBM Consulting—it will help one of the world's leading tech companies deepen its product engineering expertise. "IBM and Dialexa's shared vision for delivering industry-defining digital products could be a game changer," says Scott Harper, Dialexa's co-founder and CEO.
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New ‘Era’ for Vinli:
Out of Stealth With Mobility Intelligence Platform, ALD Automotive Partnership
by | Oct 16, 2018
Vinli co-founder and CEO Mark Haidar outlined the pivot from the company's original business model of selling direct-to-consumer connected-car hardware to its new data intelligence engine—Era—in a post on their website.
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