Leon Soliman.
More than twenty years building and running the systems a business cannot afford to lose, on three continents. Founder and CTO of SERVOLA. Chief Product Officer at Xevio. Co-founder of AM TISCH. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Yotters and Iconotheca.
Two decades operating where the stakes are real.
For more than twenty years, Leon has built, stabilized, and operated mission-critical systems and regulated ventures in environments defined by legal constraint, legacy infrastructure, and genuine financial exposure, where capital, reputation, and continuity are all at stake.
Today he leads SERVOLA as a private advisory firm, built around senior operators and domain specialists across Europe, and works with founders, boards, and executive leadership under a single, unambiguous line of responsibility.
The discipline of an institution, answerable through one lead principal, and built to outlast any one person.
He builds the AI that does the work.
Leon leads research and development across the group. He designs AI systems that research, write, check and publish in production, not in a lab.
The Servola Journal publishes technology analysis in ten languages. Yotters reports on the yacht market in seven. Iconotheca keeps a cited record of the decorative arts. Each runs on autonomous desks he architected, with a named editor accountable for every line.
And the group's largest bet: a research programme in machine learning on systems that learn concepts, not only patterns.
Nine organisations. Five countries. One standard.
From security operations in the United States to building and turning around companies in Egypt, Turkey, Serbia and Germany.
Since 2026. SERVOLA, Ludwigshafen. Founder and CTO. Sovereign European hosting on owned infrastructure, and satellite and onboard networks aboard more than 20 yachts in Europe and the Middle East.
Since 2026. Xevio, Cologne. Chief Product Officer of a native advertising group with offices in Cologne, London and Cyprus. He leads its next generation of product: nine ad platforms and the tracker reconciled into one ledger that finance, the buyers and the client all read from.
Since 2026. AM TISCH. Co-founder and CTO. A full point of sale and payment platform for hospitality, in the cloud with failover. It runs a venue outright or sits over more than 45 installed POS systems, with German fiscal compliance under DSFinV-K. More than 20 million transactions a month.
Since 2026. Yotters and Iconotheca. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of two independent publications: yacht journalism in seven languages with the Berth and Shore Cost Index, and a cited public record of the decorative arts.
2022 to 2026. 6H Agency, Cologne. CTO. Servers, cloud, data pipelines, the tracking and attribution behind financial decisions and security architecture.
2017 to 2022. Orascom Development, El Gouna, Egypt. Division Manager, Systems and Operations at one of the region's largest integrated development groups. Rebuilt the timeshare division's systems, returned a loss-making unit to profit within a year and brought complaints below one percent.
2013 to 2017. Sign Freight, Egypt and Turkey. Co-founder and CTO of an international logistics company. Built its freight platform and live shipment tracking across Egypt, Turkey, Europe and the United States, and cut manual errors by about 35 percent.
2009 to 2013. Colostore, United States. Security engineer, then Head of IT Security Operations for enterprise hosting infrastructure: incident response, forensics, hardening and continuity.
We operate what we build.
SERVOLA does not only advise. The firm builds, owns, and runs companies in production, carrying the same operational risk it asks a client to trust it with. The track record is not a deck. It is systems that are live today.
What can be shown: AM TISCH, the maritime practice and three publications that run on the firm's own AI systems.
AM TISCH Maritime Servola Journal Yotters Iconotheca
Servola Systems GmbH contracts directly and remains accountable. Delivery draws on the group companies named on this site, under back-to-back terms.
Discretion as the standard.
The owners and family offices SERVOLA works with are private. We name clients to no one. Where a reference is warranted, a principal may choose to speak with you directly, their decision, never ours.
Discretion is the standard here, not a substitute for proof. What the firm has built can be examined. The names behind it are simply not advertised.
Known by the standard he keeps.
Leon has lived and operated across several countries and at the highest levels of ownership. He holds every system the firm delivers to a single standard: reliable, or not at all.
Engagements are private and selective. If your situation calls for a firm that answers for the outcome, and a principal who stands behind it, we should speak.