We’re on a mission…

SlideXchange is part of the broader Semlr platform and company. At Semlr, we’re on a mission to liberate content from content containers; to unlock knowledge and the expression of ideas from the files in which they are created. We want to emancipate content, enable it to be fungible, reusable, traceable and open to AI. We want to eliminate the time wasted on re-creating content, just because it cannot be found or is held in an incompatible format. We want to enable content creators to focus on those areas where they have something unique to say, and to empower readers to directly control the content that they consume. We want to bring intelligence to content, and use knowledge about knowledge to fuel new ways of communicating, sharing and learning.

Meet the founding team…

Dave, Paul, and Akiva have known each other 20+ years, having first partnered together at Morgan Stanley. They share a passion for creating technology that is elegant in design, intuitive to use, and highly performant… ultimately aimed at delighting their users. Semlr Studio and slideXchange are products that have been continuously improved over several years through rigorous internal use, and further refined by having deployed them to a set of trusted enterprise clients.

The team today is located in the United States, United Kingdom, India, and Bermuda (headquarters), supporting users that work across all global timezones.

  • Akiva Elias

    Co-Founder & COO

    Prior to slideXchange/Semlr, Akiva held senior executive roles at Morgan Stanley, MSCI and Avendus Capital. He's been an Advisory Board member of tech and financial services firms. He's a co-founder of Save Groundwater Foundation. Akiva has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

    Akiva enjoys playing tennis, watching Indian cricket, and supporting Arsenal.

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  • Dave Mallon

    Founder & CEO

    In addition to founding Semlr (owner of slideXchange), Dave is the Founder and Chairman of Mallon Associates, a boutique technology training and consulting firm, serving primarily financial institutions and technology companies. In his career, Dave has been an Advisory Director and mentor for several tech-enabled start-ups. He has studied Computer Science at the University of Brighton (BSc), University of Oxford (MSc), and University of Leeds (PhD).

    Dave enjoys cycling, sailing, traveling, and the occasional glass of wine.

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  • Paul Storer-Martin

    Co-Founder & CTO

    Paul leads technology at slideXchange/Semlr. In addition to designing and building software, he teaches courses in C++, C#, Java, Unix, SQL, KDB+/Q, and Scala. He's taught at Morgan Stanley, Citadel, Deutsche Bank, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, Wise and a few quant hedge funds. Paul has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.

    Paul enjoys adding to his vast collection of guitars that he occasionally finds time to play.

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Milestones

2025

Launched slideXchange, a FREE webapp providing an easy, effective way to securely share a deck online instead of sending an attachment. slideXchange, a standalone app, is supported by the Semlr platform.

2021

Started supporting Investor Relations use cases with Semlr Studio. Delivered costs savings and reduced manual errors by automating slide updates across multiple decks.

2019

Entry into the retail industry supporting Communication use cases. Semlr Studio improved time-to-market and enabled tracking and analytics of shared content to gain business insight.

2017

Semlr Studio supported global technology Training and onboarding programs at global investment banks and hedge funds. Content reuse and assembly made it easy to deliver customized learning paths.

2016

Semlr Studio was spun out of Mallon Associates, and was released as an enterprise content management platform. Semlr takes a whole new approach to enterprise collaboration in which content is king, moving away from files (which tend to limit the accessibility and granularity of reuse), and away from hierarchical file systems (which limit the way content may be organized). Separated from such traditional containers, Semlr's liberated content is far more malleable, reusable and amenable to intelligent processing.

Product Architecture

Products can be used as standalone apps or as an integrated suite.