PAVEL was founded by 2 close friends, Jef De Wolf and Peter Peeters, who came to the conclusion that the chauffeured transportation industry was in need for smart technology to compete against technology disruptors.

Jef De Wolf, already the third generation working in a family owned transportation business, brought in 20 years of experience in serving multinationals with their exclusive chauffeured transportation service. Peter Peeters, managing partner and creative director of Norvell Jefferson, an established creative agency, brought in the creativity and digital development experience.

The founders Jef De Wolf and Peter Peeters, close friends since 1982, were born and raised in the Campine, a stretch of heathland in the northern part of Belgium, right in the middle between Brussels and Amsterdam. We are proud that PAVEL has European roots and is founded and developed in Belgium, a country that is internationally respected for its highly trained and multilingual staff and that is also recognized for its innovative strength.

Our experienced software engineering team is based in Antwerp and has been working vigorously to deliver a smart and robust software platform that you can trust. Our beautiful, intuitive interface, that makes us so undeniable unique, is crafted in The Netherlands, worldwide famous for its minimalistic, experimental and innovative ‘Dutch design’.

The name PAVEL derives from a character from the original Star Trek series.  The Russian Pavel Andreievich Chekov was responsible for navigation, security and tactics.  Chekov was able to single handed calculate the coordinates for beaming much faster than the computer, allowing him to beam Kirk and Sulu back aboard the Enterprise before they fell into the singularity, when even the computer couldn’t lock on to them.  Pavel Chekov has always been an indispensable crewmember that helped the Enterprise to navigate through the endless spaces of the Universe.