San Francisco Bay Area
Creating partnerships with leading labs, neoclouds, leading AI startups in training, inference, and optimization. Evangelizing TPU adoption via strategic partnerships. Prior to that led Google Cloud’s relationship with a16z, Sequoia and Lightspeed, and managed their portfolios and created their GTM with Google. Worked with the top foundational labs, AI agents and frameworks, and ai applications. Sales and GTM executive with over 20 years of experience in software. A serial entrepreneur who founded and led multiple companies in security, health and media. Specializing in building initial traction and growth for B2B and B2B2C software companies. I founded Discretix (sold to ARM) and Peerlyst (the "Github for security"). I helped lead the growth of Imperva to a successful IPO, led the creation of the first web security gateway, led the creation of the first innovative health tablet, and took several startups from no revenue to successful outcomes. Specialties: SaaS sales, GTM strategy, Product innovation, Category Building, International Expansion, Analytics, Cloud, Security, Health, ML/AI, Competitive Strategy, Pricing, Strategy, Fund Raising, M&A, Channel Sales, Product-Market Fit, OEM, Licensing, IP, Team building. Advisory and angel-investor roles: Density, TLDC, AMI, Kokko Beauty, Darksum (acquired by Intelliagg), PrimeSense (acquired by Apple), Reperio, Anonybit. Education: BsC, LLB, MBA. Licensed in Israel and New York. Love: analytics, math, problem-solving, hiking, psychology, science, health, art, plants, people, DIY, AI/M
Google Cloud strategic projects related to AI infra, hardware and software, AI models, frameworks, kernels, tooling, and more (hosting, training and inference, OSS and commercial).
Managing Google Cloud’s relationship with the largest venture capital firms, including a16z, Sequoia, Lightspeed and Google Ventures, while building transformational technologies in AI infra and foundational models. Supporting a portfolio of >6000 companies in various stages and GTM motions with Google Cloud. Strategic focus on AI models and agent, as well as security.
NextGen Venture Partners is an early stage investor. Key investments: Density AI, TLDC, AMI labs
AI-based threat detection and triage. Developed by a team of PhDs from GW university, Cybermonic’s knowledge graph, powered by AI, enables SOC analysts to triage threat data and act on it faster without rules or playbooks.
Decentralized biometric authentication, delivering password-less MFA while preventing honeypots, data breaches, account takeovers and synthetics. CIAM and workforce.
GraphQL security and governance API gateway.