Robert
Robert Synak's first construction job came at twelve, building a waste-oil and solvent recycling plant alongside his father — punishment, officially, for slouching in school. He loved it. The family had come from Miková, a Carpathian mountain village of 137 people; the work ethic came with them.
By 1994 he was putting up steel on Oregon construction sites — including a factory for a company that had just paid $65,000 a seat for software from half a world away. He spent the next thirty years crossing to the other side of that transaction: Senior Director at PwC, leading strategic technology for global companies; CTO of a $4B data start-up; VP of SaaS & Finance at SAP — inside the very world he'd once watched arrive take-it-or-leave-it.
In between: voice-AI systems for governments and learners across India — twenty-two languages, field conditions — and four years as Treasurer on the executive board of Fora Health, Portland's indigent and youth addiction-treatment hospital, helping fund and deliver its new CARF-accredited facility.
Now he runs Unnamed Firm, building bespoke agentic software for the businesses the giants ignore. A kid from a village of 137 knows something about being ignored by giants.
Track record
Two dozen industries across thirty years, from nuclear energy to produce distribution. A sampling:
Built and delivered voice-driven agentic AI to a global client base — mobile-native, AI-native, zero to one to one hundred.
Rescued a failed $250M global digital and workforce transformation and drove a $1B return.
Cut customer churn 80% with KPI- and SLA-governed service operations.
Negotiated, wrote, and evaluated managed-services contracts from $150K to $200M a year.
Restructured IT operations for a $7B airline, 30% leaner.
Led the team that cut three years off the nation's largest energy producer's disaster-recovery time.
Chief Technology Officer to a $4B AI/ML start-up.
Out-of-band security assistance and espionage circumvention for an unnamed client. (Yes, really. No, we can't say.)
The full list, for the curious →
He watched the S-A-P era begin from a construction site. Thirty years later he closed out his corporate career inside it. His steel's still cheaper than the SaaS — and the symmetry is not lost on him.