About

Ophir Shalitin

VP Marketing

Ophir is the Vice President of Global Marketing at NetOp in charge of the overall marketing strategy and execution. Prior to that he held VP of Marketing positions for several companies including Reblaze – cloud-based cyber security startup, N2WS – fast-growing market leader in backup software for Amazon Web Services (acquired by Veeam), and Cloudyn (acquired by Microsoft) where he was responsible for leading marketing teams to support the company’s global hyper-growth. Ophir also led the Global Marketing for Finjan Software (currently part of Trustwave).

Ophir holds a Master of Business Administration, specializing in Marketing and Finance from Tel-Aviv University and is a graduate of the Wharton GCP program.

Saar Gillai

Advisory Board

Saar Gillai is an Independent board director at Semtech, as well as Chairman at Liquid Instruments. He was the CEO of Teridion, a SaaS startup focused on cloud networking, where he grew recurring revenue 50% YoY and revamped the companies strategy to address the SD-WAN market. Before Teridion, Saar was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of HPE’s Communications Solutions Business (CSB), a global billion-dollar division. He established HPE as a key player in the software-defined next-generation service provider market and grew network virtualization revenue by over 10x within two years. Prior to HPE, Saar was SVP of Products and Solutions at 3com, where he played a key role in rebuilding 3coms enterprise offerings. Earlier he was VP Engineering at Cisco’s wireless netowrking business unit.

Haim Gabay

VP Product

Haim has deep experience in successfully delivering products across data-center hardware, operating systems and manageability software, with a special focus on Flow Monitoring and Analytics, SAN management software, Storage Networking switches and Switch operating systems. In his previous role as Principal Product Manager at Broadcom, he drove the roadmap and strategy for next-gen switches and analytics management service products using containers technology and advanced machine learning algorithms. Prior to that, he was Principal Solutions Architect, and then Director, Product Management, Data Center Networking at Brocade. And before that he held various engineering roles at networking and storage companies. He holds a B.Sc. Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

Michael Schapira

Advisory Board

For NetOp, Michael utilizes his knowledge regarding the design and analysis of practical network architectures and has been instrumental in developing the multi-layered learning model of the company’s analytics and insights generation capabilities. His years of research at Google, Princeton, Yale and UC Berkeley have earned him many prestigious awards, including from Microsoft and Google. Founder of the startup Compira Labs, Michael is also a professor in Computer Science, and co-leads the Fraunhofer Cybersecurity Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Doron Givoni

Co-founder and Advisory Board

Doron is an innovator who combines business and technical points of view with his deep knowledge of networking, specifically cloud engineering. Earlier in his career, he was the CEO of ComAbility, which was later acquired by Ruckus (which was then acquired by Brocade and then ARRIS). There, Doron founded the Ruckus Cloud initiative, which defined systems and network architectures for a globally-available solution for Wi-Fi, LTE and switching management, and as second to the CTO at Ruckus, he defined emerging products and solutions for enterprises in the SD-WAN, Cloud network security, 5G, IoT and hybrid networking spaces. He lives and breathes network architecture and has grown startups from concept to acquisition, in addition to managing global engineering teams.

Amir Naftali

CTO and VP Engineering

Amir is an accomplished technology executive with years of experience in building and guiding R&D, DevOps and research teams as well as establishing high standard operating procedures.

Amir held executive positions in several startups and established companies including VP R&D positions in Noname Security and Firmon.

Amir was also the founder and CTO of FortyCloud, a startup company that was founded in late 2011 and acquired by Firemon in 2016.

Prior to FortyCloud Amir spent 11 years holding various engineering and management leadership positions in Cisco Systems

Bibi Rosenbach

CEO & Co-founder

A serial entrepreneur, Bibi brings more than 20 years of CEO experience to NetOp, including at Kryon systems, a leader in Robotic Process Automation, and Personeta, a Sequoia and Cisco invested networking company (later acquired by SmartCall), which he also co-founded. At Kryon, Bibi grew revenue from nothing to millions of dollars in the first year of selling the machine-learning automation platform to global enterprises. He also founded Armon Networking (later acquired by Nortel), and served as VP Cloud at the telecommunication company Amdocs. As a revenue and innovation leader for high-growth companies, Bibi has a successful track record of transforming start-ups into industry leaders.