Mike Hulbert is the chief executive officer and a board member of Solvd, the Walnut Creek, California, AI engineering company that grew from a 2011 test automation shop into a 750-person global firm (Solvd; Solvd).
Leading Solvd’s AI-first chapter
Hulbert leads Solvd’s executive team alongside Chief AI Officer Pawel Solyga, CFO Mark Himelfarb, COO Markus Remark, and CTO Skylar Roebuck, with Igor Vayner as executive chairman (Solvd). The company’s recent chapter includes the October 2024 purchase of EastBanc Technologies and the June 2025 purchase of Tooploox, moves that expanded its AI engineering and research capacity (Solvd).
Production AI at enterprise stakes
Under the current leadership Solvd markets itself as a firm that builds, implements, and runs AI systems for enterprises where the stakes are real, with more than 150 AI and ML specialists inside the wider 750-person team (Solvd). Published work includes an agentic retail onboarding flow that cut average session cost by 25.5% and vision-model work for marketplace product understanding (Solvd; Solvd).