Elma Levy
Principal & Co-Founder
As a Co-founder and Principal of The Eldov Group, LLC. Ms. Levy provides strategic guidance to the organization, particularly as it pertains to corporate governance, financial management and tactical development. Her firsthand experience with all phases of the organizational life cycle, from start-up through full maturity, and the challenges of each phase, allow her to provide a unique perspective as a business mentor and leadership coach.
Prior to co-founding The Eldov Group, Ms. Levy was the co-founder of Dovel Technologies (https://doveltech.com/) a Government contracting firm in the Health IT space. At Dovel, Ms. Levy was responsible for establishing and scaling the corporate foundation that supported the initial organic growth and in the later phases, the growth through acquisition. Her keen understanding of leadership styles and strengths, and her strategic vision and methodical approaches to process allowed Dovel to grow from a 2-person company to a company with $200M in annual revenues.
After the successful sale of Dovel to Private Equity, Ms. Levy focused on her next venture, Coach to Strength, LLC ( https://www.coachtostrength.com/) a company that provides Leadership Coaching and Business Mentoring, mostly to leaders in the start-up and early ‘rapid growth’ phase of their ventures. In addition to the position on the Dovel Board of Directors, Ms. Levy is the Vice Chair of the Board of Montgomery Hospice and she serves on several advisory Boards.
Ms. Levy is a member of the GWU School of Engineering National Advisory Council, as well as the external advisory council of the GWU SEAS Institute of Women in Engineering, and she develops and presents workshops and professional development sessions for SCORE; previously she served twice as a Lean Startup/NSF ICorps mentor and a mentor in Residence at the GWU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center.
At Eldov, Ms. Levy is uniquely qualified to assess and support the credibility and validity of a start-up company’s Leadership team’s strengths and dynamics, as well as the organizations’ corporate governance and infrastructure.
Dov Levy
Co-FOUNDER, Technologist and IT Strategist
As a Co-founder and Principal of The Eldov Group, LLC. Mr. Levy provides strategic guidance to the organization, particularly as it pertains to involvement with companies that work with cutting-edge IT solutions involving Cloud Computing, AI, Machine Learning, AWS, etc.
His expertise in the IT domain is well known and recognized in the industry,
At Dovel Technologies , a company he co-founded and recently sold, Mr. Levy was the technical catalyst for the company’s growth. His vision and knack for applying leading technologies in thoughtful ways helped the company evolve from a small 2-person business to over $200M in annual revenue at the time of sale.
Over the past 3 decades, Mr. Levy served as the CTO, Chief Technologist, and Chief Technical Architect at some of the US Government’s largest, mission critical solutions, such as EDGAR, DTS and more; at the time of his tenure each program implemented solutions on the forefront of technology. Today Mr. Levy serves as Sr. Advisor to the GrantSolutions.gov team in a large-scale implementation involving cloud computing, event sourcing, machine learning, Artificial intelligence and blockchain.
Mr. Levy is highly sought after to perform independent assessments, provide technical expertise, and share insights on how to effectively utilize technology to solve complex business challenges.
With respect to the US Government market, not only is Mr. Levy highly regarded, but because of his long tenure in the industry, he is also well connected and well known.
At Eldov, Mr. Levy is uniquely qualified to assess the credibility and validity of a start-up company’s IT solutions, approaches and infrastructure, as well as to support the start-up team with guidance and introductions.
