The people behind Navi
Meet the Team
Navi Auto Transport is built by people who know logistics from the inside — veterans who came up on the front lines of car shipping, alongside operators and engineers from some of the world’s fastest-moving logistics companies. That mix is why we build the service we wish had existed when we were booking shipments ourselves.
55,697+
Vehicles shipped
#2
Forbes Advisor 2025
10+ Years
Industry experience
All 50
States covered
Leadership
Ivan Karakostov
Founder & CEO
Montway Auto Transport · SGT Auto Transport · 10+ years in auto transport
The driving force behind Navi. Ivan started from the ground up at Montway — working dispatch, retail, and sales operations over 6.5 years — before founding one of the fastest-growing brokerages in the country. His work has been featured in Forbes Advisor and ConsumerAffairs.
Radion Tzakov
Managing Director
Montway Auto Transport · CBRE · Colliers International · 10+ years in leadership
Radion oversees company-wide operations at Navi. Before joining, he was a top-performing Account Manager at Montway Auto Transport and held senior management roles at CBRE and Colliers International.
Matthew Roberts
Chief Technology Officer
Uber · Careem · Otter · 12+ years in operations, analytics & automation
Matt leads technology, systems, and automation at Navi. He spent over a decade scaling operations at some of the world’s fastest-moving logistics and on-demand companies — Uber (Uber Eats and Rides across EMEA and APAC), Otter, and Careem — with a focus on strategy, analytics, and automation. At Navi, he’s applying that playbook to auto transport, building the tech and data infrastructure behind one of the industry’s most tech-forward brokerages.
Peter Chovanec
Strategic Advisor
Uber · Google · IBM · 13+ years in strategy & competitive analytics
Peter advises Navi on strategy and competitive positioning. He spent over a decade at Uber leading global business performance and competitive analytics across EMEA, LatAm, and worldwide markets, with earlier roles at Google, KPMG, and IBM. He helps Navi read the market, sharpen its positioning, and stay a step ahead of much larger competitors.
Yavor Mirchev
Sales & Operations Director
SGT Auto Transport · Concentrix · Expert in vehicle logistics
Yavor leads Navi’s sales team and customer experience operations. He built his auto transport expertise at SGT Auto Transport and has moved quickly through Navi — from Sales Representative to Sales Manager to Sales and Operations Director in under a year.
Operations & Support
Ruska Kehayova
Team Manager
Alorica · C3i Solutions (HCLTech) · 9+ years in customer experience
Ruska leads customer support and service standards at Navi. She spent five-plus years at Alorica managing front-line teams against strict service-level targets, and brings that discipline to keeping Navi customers informed and supported from first quote to final delivery.
Georgi Georgiev
Dispatch & Process Manager
SGT Auto Transport · Yettel Bulgaria · 8+ years in operations & leadership
Georgi runs dispatch and process at Navi — the engine room that turns a booked order into an assigned carrier and a moving vehicle. He came into auto transport through sales at SGT Auto Transport and brings nearly eight years of team leadership from Yettel Bulgaria, where he managed operations on-site. He was promoted from dispatch supervisor to lead the function.
Kristiana Mihaylova
Quality Assurance Manager
SGT Auto Transport · 2+ years in auto transport & customer quality
Kristiana leads quality assurance at Navi. She monitors how orders are handled from quote to delivery and checks that every customer is getting the service they were promised — flagging issues before they reach the customer. She built her auto transport background in customer service at SGT Auto Transport before moving into QA and being promoted to manager.
Yordan Yordanov
Carrier Manager
SGT Auto Transport · Amazon · 3+ years in auto transport & team leadership
Yordan manages carrier relationships at Navi — vetting, negotiating, and coordinating the network of carriers that move customers’ vehicles. He built his auto transport foundation at SGT Auto Transport in customer service and sales, led teams at Amazon, and previously worked at Navi in sales and retail management before returning to run carrier operations.
Antonio Nemsky
Sales Team Lead
Montway Auto Transport · Navi Auto Transport · 4+ years in auto transport
Antonio leads one of Navi’s sales teams. He came up through the front lines of car shipping — starting at Montway Auto Transport across live chat, dispatch, and outbound sales — before joining Navi as a sales agent and moving up to supervisor and now team lead. That ground-level experience means he understands a shipment from both the customer’s side and the operational one.
Mihail Jawad
Dispatch Team Lead
Montway Auto Transport · J&P Energy · 7+ years in auto transport
Mihail leads a dispatch team at Navi, coordinating carriers and keeping shipments on schedule. He spent more than six years at Montway Auto Transport, moving from live chat sales and customer support up to account manager, before bringing that experience to Navi’s dispatch operation.
Aleksandra Borisova
Associate Team Lead
ResultsCX · Customer experience & logistics operations
Aleksandra is an associate team lead at Navi. She came up fast through the operation — moving through logistics coordination and payment processing before stepping into a team lead role — after building a customer-service foundation at ResultsCX. She helps keep the day-to-day running and the front-line team supported.
Pavel Pavlov
Salesforce Developer
Programming background · Salesforce & data systems
Pavel builds the technology that runs Navi behind the scenes. He started on the phones, learned the business fast, and — drawing on his programming background — became one of the main developers behind Navi’s Salesforce platform. Data-driven and quick to ship, he keeps the company’s CRM, automation, and reporting sharp.
Why it matters
You’re trusting us with your vehicle. You should know who we are.
Auto transport is full of faceless brokerages. At Navi, every quote, every carrier assignment, and every delivery is backed by a real team with real names and verifiable track records — industry veterans who’ve spent years on the front lines of car shipping, alongside the operators and engineers who keep it all running. When something goes wrong — and occasionally in logistics, it does — you’re talking to people who have spent years solving exactly that kind of problem.