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Morphisec's world leading prevention-first software stops ransomware and other advanced attacks from endpoint to the cloud. Morphisec stops the attacks that bypass signature-based or behavior-based detection, complimenting and boosting next generation antivirus and endpoint detection and response solutions. Our patented Moving Target Defense technology is the key to this success, offering simple, proactive prevention of the most advanced and unknown threats. Morphisec protects over 8 and a half million endpoints worldwide, stopping 10,000 ransomware attacks, supply chain attacks, zero-day attacks, and other stealthy and evasive attacks every day.

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Executive team

Ronen Yehoshua

CEO & board member

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Ronen Yehoshua

CEO & board member

Morphisec co-founder and CEO Ronen Yehoshua has over 20 year of technology management and venture capital experience. Prior to Morphisec, Ronen was a partner at Cedar Fund, an international venture capital firm with over $325M under management. In this strategic, hands-on role, he led investments and resided on the boards of several companies in seed and growth stage. Before that, Ronen held key leadership positions in managing, investing, and collaborating with start-up companies and cutting-edge innovations in the software and telecom industries, such as business and technology consultant to the Hutchison Whampoa group, Investment Director at Partner FutureCom, Director of Business Development and Project Manager at ECI Telecom.

Rudy Cifolelli

Chief Revenue Officer

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Rudy Cifolelli

Chief Revenue Officer

Rudolfo ‘Rudy’ Cifolelli has more than 20 years sales management experience with high-tech companies. He served as SVP Sales for Prolexic Technologies which was acquired by Akamai in 2014, and as President of SafeBoot Corporation which was acquired by McAfee in 2007.
Rudy is a graduate of Ferris State University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer information systems.

Michael Gorelik

CTO

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Michael Gorelik

CTO

Morphisec CTO Michael Gorelik leads the malware research operation and sets technology strategy. He has extensive experience in the software industry and leading diverse cybersecurity software development projects. Prior to Morphisec, Michael was VP of R&D at MotionLogic GmbH, and previously served in senior leadership positions at Deutsche Telekom Labs. Michael has extensive experience as a red teamer, reverse engineer, and contributor to the MITRE CVE database. He has worked extensively with the FBI and US Department of Homeland Security on countering global cybercrime. Michael is a noted speaker, having presented at multiple industry conferences, such as SANS, BSides, and RSA. Michael holds Bsc and Msc degrees from the Computer Science department at Ben-Gurion University, focusing on synchronization in different OS architectures. He also jointly holds seven patents in the IT space.

Michael Gerard

Chief Marketing Officer

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Michael Gerard

Chief Marketing Officer

Michael Gerard brings two decades of experience in marketing strategy and execution to Morphisec. He joins Morphisec from e-Spirit, acquired by CrownPeak, where he was responsible for brand building, demand generation, and sales development. He was also previously CMO of Curata, and was instrumental in building the content marketing platform into a category leader. Michael has degrees in chemical engineering and engineering, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Ron Reinfeld

CFO and COO

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Ron Reinfeld

CFO and COO

Prior to joining Morphisec, Ron served as Chief Financial Officer at IntSights (acquired by Rapid7) where he oversaw global finance, legal, HR, and planning operations. Ron brings over 15 years of financial leadership experience at SaaS companies. He was VP of Finance & Operations at Zooz (acquired by PayU), and has held various financial and operations roles at Cloudshare, Clarizen, and Ernst & Young, where he specialized in technology IPOs and M&A. In addition, Ron has held multiple advisory roles at early stage tech startups.

Michal Gilboa

VP Human Resources

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Michal Gilboa

VP Human Resources

Morphisec's Vice President of Human Resources Michal Gilboa has more than 20 years of HR leadership experience and has held a variety of HR leadership roles at both public and private technology, retail, and academic organizations. Prior to Morphisec, Michal worked at several global companies including Converse and Amdocs. She holds an MA from Tel Aviv University in Labor studies, as well as a director's diploma from TAU's School of Management.

Raviv Dolev

VP of Customer Success

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Raviv Dolev

VP of Customer Success

As Morphisec's VP of Customer Success, Raviv Dolev leads the team responsible for customer satisfaction throughout the engagement life cycle from pre-sales to renewals. With 20 years of expertise in customer service and team management, his experience includes SE management in enterprise delivered solutions, services upsell, support lead roles, and driving customer success plans from planning to execution. Prior to Morphisec, Raviv held leading support and sales engineering positions in CA, Netegrity, and Business Layers. He is a Mamram graduate and veteran of Technology Unit 180 in the IAF.

Roi Vaknin

VP of Engineering

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Roi Vaknin

VP of Engineering

Morphisec's Vice President of Engineering and CISO Roi Vaknin has been with the company since 2014. Roi started his path at Morphisec as a backend developer. From here he grew to become a team leader and then the Director of Engineering.

In his Military Service, Roi served in Unit 8200, the Israeli Intelligence Corps unit of the Israel Defense Forces. Roi holds a BSc in software engineering and MBA from Ben-Gurion University. He is certified as an AWS Solution Architect Associate, mostly interested in software architecture, new technologies, and cloud environments.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

YOAV TZRUYA

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YOAV TZRUYA

Yoav brings to JVP over twenty years of experience in digital media, content services, telecom value-added services as well as mission critical enterprise software including C5I and Cyber Security. Yoav led investments in several of JVP’s companies including ThetaRay, CyActive, Morphisec, Coro.Net, ScadaFence, SDO and AnyClip Media. Exits include CyActive (acquired by Paypal, 04/2015). Prior to joining JVP, Yoav headed venture capital consulting business, Altus Media, and ahead of that, spent five years as General Manager/COO and CMO of Exent Technologies leading its strategy, business and operations in the space of digital distribution, working with industry leaders such as Verizon, Comcast, Intel, CBS, Time Warner, France Telecom and others. Prior to this, Yoav held executive roles with TeleKnowledge, an innovator in business support systems, helping develop telecom value-added services and digital media strategies for Telefonica, Yahoo, Listen.com, StarMedia and others. Yoav spent six years in the Israeli Air Force, managing mission critical development projects including in the “enterprise” control, command & security space, and is a decorated officer. Yoav holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Computer Science) from Tel-Aviv University, as well as an Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management’s international program.

Rémi Prunier

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Rémi Prunier

Rémi Prunier is VC at Orange Digital Ventures, the €150M corporate venture fund of Orange Group. In this role, he is involved with several companies’ Board of Directors (BoD), primarily from the Cybersecurity and Enterprise space.

With a strong B2B business and management background, Rémi is passionate about disruptive models, digital transformation and innovation, always in search of new investment opportunities in Cybersecurity, AI & Enterprise software solutions.

Rémi holds a masters’ degree from CentraleSupelec Engineer School and an executive advanced master from ESSEC Management School.

Ronen Yehoshua

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Ronen Yehoshua

Ronen Yehoshua, co-founder and CEO of Morphisec, has over 20 years of technology management and venture capital experience. Prior to Morphisec, Ronen was a partner at Cedar Fund, an international venture capital firm with over $325M under management. In this strategic, hands-on role, he led investments and resided on the boards of several companies in seed and growth stage. Before that, Ronen held key leadership positions in managing, investing, and collaborating with start-up companies and cutting-edge innovations in software and telecom, such as business and technology consultant to the Hutchison Whampoa group, Investment Director at Partner FutureCom, Director of Business Development and Project Manager at ECI Telecom.

STEVE BENNETT

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STEVE BENNETT

Steve Bennett is a board member, angel investor and CEO advisor with a long track record of delivering strong results for customers, partners, employees, and shareholders. His operating business career spans stints at GE, Intuit and Symantec. His board experience spans a wide range of public companies including Intuit, Sun Microsystems, Qualcomm, American Airlines, and Symantec. Bennett graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor’s degree in finance and real estate. He is married to Marsha Jordan his wife of 30 years and they live in the Bay Area.

Michael Christenson

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Michael Christenson

Michael Christenson is an investor and advisor who served as a board observer, board member, and President and Chief Operating Officer of New Relic, Inc. respectively between 2010-2021. He was also a Managing Director of Allen & Company LLC, a private investment banking firm, from 2010-2020. Christenson also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Logmein, Inc. from 2010-2020. From 2006 to 2010, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of CA Technologies, and in 2005 served as Executive Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development. CA Technologies was a leading enterprise systems management and security software company. Mr. Christenson was an investment banker at Salomon Brothers Inc and its successor firm, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., from 1987 to 2004.

Advisory Board

Yuval Elovici

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Yuval Elovici

Professor Yuval Elovici is the Director of the Telekom Innovation Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), head of the BGU Cyber Security Research Center, Research Director of iTrust at Singapore University of Technology and Design, and Professor in the Department of Information Systems Engineering at BGU. Academically, Elovici is the founder of Telekom Innovation Laboratories at BGU, co-founder of BGU’s Cyber Security Research Center, and co-initiator of BGU’s M.Sc. Cyber Security study track. He is also the co-founder of Morphisec, a Spinoff tech company of BGU. A senior advisor to hi-tech and telecom companies as well as large governmental agencies in the area of cyber security and data analytics, helps venture capitals to perform due diligence.

John F. Petrie III

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John F. Petrie III

John Petrie is Chief Executive Officer of NTT Security Americas and is responsible for managing the growing client security challenges through the NTT operating companies across North America and Latin America. He is a well-respected and trusted senior technology executive in the cybersecurity industry, with a blend of technical and business expertise. Prior to his current role, John was Chief Information Security Officer at NTT Security, responsible for the overall global information strategy and the management of the information security management system. John has more than 26 years of success in the manufacturing, financial services, defense, technology, security, telecommunications, education and healthcare industries. He has held previous positions with IBM and other leading technology companies, as well as a distinguished career in the US Marines. He holds an MBA in Information Systems from City University, a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts from the University of the State of New York, and is a graduate of the Defense Intelligence College in Washington D.C.

Rachael T. McCarthy

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Rachael T. McCarthy

Rachael McCarthy is a senior software executive and attorney with over 25 years of experience building and scaling high growth technology companies, positioning them for continued growth or liquidity thru sale or IPO.

Most recently CFO of CloudLock Inc. (acquired by Cisco in 2016), Ms. McCarthy has held various senior management roles, including Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and Vice President of Business Development and also serves as a strategic business advisor to tech companies.

Recipient of the 2016 Boston Business Journal CFO of the Year Award, Ms. McCarthy’s experience prior to CloudLock includes serving as CFO & VP of Corporate Development of Axeda Corp (acquired by PTC in 2014), strategic business advisor to Recombinant Data Corp (acquired by Deloitte in 2012, now ConvergeHealth by Deloitte), General Counsel of Unica Corp (IPO 2005, acquired by IBM in 2010), business advisor & counsel to Authoria (Peopleclick Authoria as of 2010), CFO of RealityWave (acquired by Aveva 2005), VP of Finance of Interlynx (acquired by ProAct in 2000), and General Counsel & VP of Business Development of Restrac/Webhire (IPO 1996 part of Kenexa/IBM in 2006).

Ms. McCarthy offers CFO, general counsel, and business advisory services, including board and board of advisor representation to growing software/SaaS companies.

KAREL OBLUK

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KAREL OBLUK

Karel is a seasoned executive and investor with strong IT background, with experience in top management positions. Over the past decade, he helped to grow one of the most successful AV companies AVG Technologies, now publicly listed at NYSE (NYSE:AVGT). As an acting CEO and CTO, he proved not only his technical but also managerial and business skills. After leaving AVG, Karel has been primarily active as an investor and advisor. In this role, he was involved with several companies’ Board of Directors (BoD), primarily from the IT security space, including Cognitive Security (acquired by Cisco – NASDAQ:CSCO). Karel holds a doctorate and masters’ degree in computer science from the Brno University of Technology, Czech republic. Karel was awarded a Kauffman Fellowship by the Palo Alto based Society of Kauffman Fellows.

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Morphisec Labs

Morphisec Labs continuously researches threats to improve defenses and share insight with the broader cyber community. The team engages in ongoing cooperation with leading researchers across the cybersecurity spectrum and is dedicated to fostering collaboration, data sharing and offering investigative assistance.

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