Location Dallas, Texas, United States Regions Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Southern US Gender Male
Website www2.optimalblue.com/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Ivan H. Darius, Ph.D. is co-founder and co-CEO of Plano, Texas-based Optimal Blue LLC, an Application Service Provider (ASP) for product eligibility and pricing engine (PPE) technology and content management. Dr. Darius founded Optimal Blue in 2002 with more than 30 years of executive experience in technology, product development and operations.
In his current position, he is responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of the company as well as focusing on the technical and strategic product direction. He designed the Optimal Blue system to leverage the convergence of technology with content management to seamlessly connect investors, lenders and originators to more efficiently source, manage, price and lock a loan in real time.
Prior to founding Optimal Blue, Dr. Darius was president and CEO of Sollen Technologies LLC in Dallas. While there, Sollen became the first successful ASP selling automation and process improvement tools to the mortgage industry. Additionally, he designed and implemented the first highly scalable, massively parallel decision engine for pricing and eligibility. During his three-year tenure, the company grew from zero to $2.5 million in annual revenue.
Throughout Dr. Darius’ career, he has worked for technology companies including Texas Instruments Incorporated. Some of his accomplishments include inventing and developing a magnetic shielding product, implementing cycle-line reduction techniques and scientifically-based training materials. He holds two patents for design and technology where rights were sold to major U.S. corporations. During his tenure at TI he was Director of the Decision Systems Laboratory, which at the time was focused on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and simulation-based modeling techniques for operational improvement in the semi-conductor industry.
Dr. Darius attended The Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium where he earned a bachelor of science in physics, summa cum laude and a Ph.D. in Physics, magna cum laude. He is also fluent in English, French, and Dutch and has a working knowledge of German.
