Leading the Way to Secure Cloud Infrastructure

Shai has more than 20 years of product management, technology leadership and senior executive experience. Before Ermetic, Shai served as the co-founder and CEO of Secdo, a cyber security company, where he led the company from its inception to a successful acquisition by Palo Alto Networks (NSDQ:PANW) for $100M in only three years. Before Secdo, Shai served as the CEO of Integrity-Project, a company specialized in connectivity, networking and security solutions. He led them to significant growth and an acquisition by Mellanox (NSDQ:MLNX). Shai also served for 10 years as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps Unit 8200, where he held a variety of roles in management and product development, and won several national awards for excellence. Shai is a graduate of the Talpiot program and earned an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Arick is a tenured business leader with two decades of experience in strategy, technology, research, and leadership in government and the private sector. Prior to founding Ermetic, Arick was a co-founder of Sygnia Consulting, a cyber consulting and incident response firm which was acquired by Temasek Holdings for $250M. Before Sygnia, Arick worked at McKinsey & Company in London, where he focused on strategy and operations. He served for 15 years in the IDF Intelligence Corps Unit 8200, where he held senior leadership positions from research to leading hundreds of cyber R&D experts. He received several awards for his unique contributions to national security. Arick earned a BSc in exact sciences (Talpiot program, cum laude), an MSc in mathematics from Hebrew University, and an MBA (cum laude) from INSEAD.

Sivan has more than a decade of experience in product management and as a technology leader. Sivan worked as a software developer at Microsoft before leaving to become the first employee at Aorato, an innovative cyber security company that was later acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) for $200M in 2014. At Aorato, Sivan led the development of the product, research and data science capabilities through the acquisition and scale-up within Microsoft. Sivan earned a BSc in biotechnology, a BA in economics, a BSc in computer science, and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Michael has more than 20 years of experience leading research and development teams. Before Ermetic, Michael co-founded and served as VP R&D at Aorato, an innovative cyber security company. Following Aorato’s successful acquisition by Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) for $200M in 2014, Michael went on to lead the Aorato group within Microsoft, scaling up the Microsoft-ATA/Azure-ATP product to support more than 10,000 enterprise customers worldwide. During his military service with the IDF Cybersecurity Unit (Matzov), Michael led one of the most strategic projects in secure communication and encryption. Michael holds a BSc with distinction in computer science.

Amy is a seasoned marketing professional with vast high tech experience including senior management positions at successful international companies. She has helped dozens of startups with their marketing strategy and execution, enabling early-stage companies to launch their products in the international market and achieve successful investments and exits. Most recently, Amy served as CMO at Meta Networks (acquired by Proofpoint) and CEO of a successful startup consulting agency where she worked with cyber security companies including Secdo (acquired by Palo Alto Networks),Tufin, Skyfence (acquired by Imperva), Biocatch and others. Amy earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University in New York.

Toby joins Ermetic from $34B cyber security vendor Fortinet, where he built and managed a team that scaled enterprise revenue and the field organization in the West by 300%. Previously, he managed a commercial sales organization at $8B networking leader Juniper Networks that doubled revenue and headcount under his leadership. He has also served in senior sales positions with FireEye and McAfee. Toby earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Management from California Polytechnic State University.

Avi has more than fifteen years of experience in financial and operations management and information systems. Prior to joining Ermetic, he worked for eight years as the EVP of Finance and Information Systems at Similarweb (NYSE: SMWB), from almost the beginning through a successful IPO in 2021. Earlier in his career, Avi worked at Ernst & Young LLP and at Kenshoo (Israel and the UK). Avi is a Certified Public Accountant and earned a B.S. in Accounting and Economics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an M.A. in Business Management from the College of Management Academic Studies.

Liat has more than 15 years of experience as a human resources executive. She joins Ermetic from multi-billion dollar security vendor SentinelOne where she ran the HR function from the company’s Series B funding round all the way to its IPO and a headcount of 1200 employees. Previously she served as HR Business Partner for the innovation business unit of global software and services provider Amdocs, responsible for people management for several start-up technology companies. She also served in human resources roles with Ernst & Young. Liat earned her BA and MA (Labor Studies) from Tel Aviv University.

Eduard has over 20 years of experience growing regional business in EMEA for security vendors. He joins Ermetic from multicloud security vendor Fortanix where he was Vice President of Sales EMEA. Previously, he was Executive Vice President of Sales at German cloud-based DDoS protection vendor Link11. He also served as VP of EMEA Sales at data protection company Bitglass and VP of EMEA Sales at leading SASE vendor Netskope. Before that, he held senior sales roles at Imperva and Aerohive Networks.

Chad joins Ermetic as VP, Enterprise Sales for North America with more than 25 years of direct selling experience as an Individual Contributor and proven sales leader. He has experience building teams in high growth environments, establishing an employee-customer first culture and leading high performing teams in the Information Security & Information Management segments. Prior to Ermetic, Chad held senior leadership roles at Cybereason, Rubrik, Deep Instinct and Tanium. In each of these leadership roles, Chad established a great culture where his teams consistently delivered on predictable business results through a disciplined sales process, operational excellence and cross functional teaming.

Ben joins Ermetic from Bitglass, a cloud security startup that was recently acquired by Forcepoint. As the South Area Vice President, Ben led the Bitglass sales team for the South Region which included US Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, TOLA, South-West, US Federal and LATAM territories. During his tenure at Bitglass, Ben successfully led his team into the US Federal market. Prior to Bitglass, Ben held sales and sales management roles for ExtraHop Networks, Palo Alto Networks and Layer 3 Communications. Ben’s career in technology sales started with roles in System Engineering and System Engineering Leadership at Bay Networks, Foundry Networks and Brocade Communications.

Bruce has over a decade of experience building and leading sales teams that spark dramatic growth in cybersecurity companies. Before Ermetic, he founded and led an inside sales organization at CyberX that scaled pipeline by more than 5000% in two and a half years until the company was acquired by Microsoft. At CyberX, he also spearheaded the company’s Federal practice, acquiring customers in defense, energy, and space agencies around the US. Previously, he served in numerous sales and leadership positions at IBM. Bruce earned both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts.