Management
Yuval Baron
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Prior to launching AlgoSec, Mr. Baron co-founded Actelis Networks Inc. in 1998 where he served as CEO until 2002. Actelis Networks develops solutions that deliver fiber quality links over copper pairs in the local loop. During his tenure Actelis Networks had three separate funding rounds raising $75 million from investors, including USVP, NEA, Walden, Carlyle, Salomon Smith Barney, France Telecom, Sumitomo, The Anschutz group, and Vertex. To date Actelis has over 120 employees. Before co-founding Actelis, Mr. Baron was vice president of sales and marketing at RIT Technologies, a high speed networking infrastructure company. At RIT, he built a distribution network in 55 countries and drove revenue growth from $3M to $21M leading to a successful IPO. Prior to RIT, Mr. Baron spent a decade with Comverse Technology (Nasdaq:CMVT), a world leader in network service and security platforms. Mr. Baron holds a B.S. in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Economics (Cum Laude) and an MBA in finance both from Bar Ilan University.
Avishai Wool
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
Prior to co-founding AlgoSec, Dr. Wool co-founded Lumeta Corporation in 2000 and was chief scientist until 2002. At Lumeta, Dr. Wool was responsible for transforming firewall analyzer technology he helped create while working at Bell Labs into a commercial product. Prior to Bell Labs spinning off the Lumeta Corporation, Dr. Wool was a member of Bell Lab's technical staff in the Secure Systems Research Department where he led a team of researchers who created the first research prototypes of the firewall analyzer. Dr. Wool is an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. He has served on the program committee of the leading IEEE and ACM conferences on computer and network security. He has published more than 40 research papers and holds 10 US Patents with many more pending. He is an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University. He holds a B.Sc. (Cum Laude) in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Kin Mitra
General Manager, North America
Kin Mitra has a successful track record of over two decades in security and networking. Prior to AlgoSec, Mitra was the Director of North American Sales for Aladdin Knowledge Systems, manufacturers of authentication devices and content security products. At Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Mitra was responsible for growing the customer base and partner relationships with the company's sales team in North America. Before joining Aladdin, Mitra spent 11 years with Check Point Software Technologies, Inc., a market leader in the worldwide enterprise firewall, personal firewall, data security and VPN markets and a key AlgoSec partner. As a Regional Director at Check Point, Mitra oversaw operations in the Southern United States, Caribbean, and Puerto Rico, where he grew his division an average of 20 percent year over year to over $60,000,000 in annual business. Additionally, Mitra was credited for building the company's Federal sales division and was instrumental in gaining product certifications for the U.S. market.
Bruno Weinberger
General Manager, EMEA
Bruno Weinberger has more than 10 years of experience in the high tech industry, holding various technical, sales and business development positions. Before joining AlgoSec, Mr. Weinberger consulted for venture-backed technology start-ups, helping them launch and drive business throughout Europe. Prior to this, he served as vice president of business development and sales, EMEA for network-security vendor Whale Communications, acquired by Microsoft. At Whale, he was instrumental in managing strategic corporate accounts in EMEA, developing relationships with Whale's strategic partners in EMEA, expanding the European sales team and developing new territories in Asia Pac. Mr. Weinberger joined Whale from Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), where he worked on developing a billing solution for telecom providers. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Tel Aviv Academic College.
Guy Givoni
Vice President, Strategic Markets
Guy Givoni brings to AlgoSec vast experience in business development and international sales to Fortune-500 companies, with proficiency in various high-tech industries including Network Security, Telecom and Semiconductors. Prior to joining AlgoSec, Givoni served as VP Sales & Strategy at Runcom Technologies where he was in-charge of opening new markets in Asia-Pacific, Europe and Africa. Givoni's background includes a variety of management positions of professional-services, product and R&D divisions.
Mr. Givoni holds a B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an MBA in finance from the Inter-Disciplinary Center, Herzelia.
Anner Kushnir
Vice President of Research and Development
Anner Kushnir has over 12 years of experience in various research,
development and management positions. Before joining AlgoSec, Mr.
Kushnir held several R&D positions in high-tech start-up companies.
His latest position was as a leading algorithm researcher for a consumer electronics start-up company, in the field of computer vision, image analysis and image processing.
Prior to this, he served as a hardware engineer for optical network solution vendor Flexlight Networks, where he participated in logic design of FPGA and ASIC components for high-speed optical communication systems.
Mr. Kushnir is also a former officer and head of a technological R&D section in an elite Israeli Defense Force (IDF) unit. Mr. Kushnir holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. (both Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University.
Yoav Shaked
Vice President of Products
Yoav Shaked has over 25 years of experience in communications and security, in executive positions, product and R&D.
Prior to joining AlgoSec, Mr. Shaked was VP of Products at Eurekify, a company in the Security Role & Compliance Management space, which was acquired by CA.
Prior to that, Mr. Shaked was founder and CEO of XciTel Ltd, a startup in the Cellular service delivery platforms (SDPs) area, and founder and Managing Director of Netology Ltd. (a Comverse Technology subsidiary) overseeing the development and business
deployment of an innovative Short Message Service (SMS) Center for cellular operators.
Mr. Shaked also held senior product and R&D management positions with New Dimension Software (later acquired by BMC).
Mr. Shaked holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science with honors from the Tel-Aviv University.
David Burton
Vice President of Marketing
David Burton brings over 20 years of high-tech marketing experience to AlgoSec, including the past 12 years focused on information security. Prior to AlgoSec, Burton was the Director of Product Marketing for Check Point Software Technologies, where he was responsible for the global go-to-market strategy and execution for all enterprise security products. Burton was instrumental in establishing Check Point as a leader in several new markets including unified threat management (UTM) appliances and endpoint security. He also served as the company’s security officer working as a direct liaison to the United States Government. Prior to joining Check Point, Burton held marketing management positions for NetContinuum, Inc., an application firewall manufacturer and Symantec Corporation where he managed market development, product introductions, positioning and channels.
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