Emerging from Israel’s national cybersecurity center, Morphisec fundamentally alters the cyber security landscape with its moving target defense technology, which keeps organizations consistently ahead of attacks. Morphisec Endpoint Threat Prevention blocks zero-days and advanced attacks in real time, before they cause any damage.
CEO & BOARD MEMBER
Ronen Yehoshua, co-founder and CEO of Morphisec, 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 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.
CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER
As Chief Business Officer, Omri oversees Morphisec’s go-to-market strategy and business development. A pragmatic visionary, Omri brings over 25 years of leadership in global hi-tech operations to Morphisec. Most recently, he served as CEO of Triple+, a marketer of products and services within the IoT arena. Prior to Triple+, he held various executive roles at Verdasys (now known as Digital Guardian), a startup in the data leak prevention and cyber security space. Before Verdasys, Omri assumed the management and engineered the turnaround of the nearly bankrupt Impress Software. Omri also spent 12 years in multiple executive roles at Tecnomatix Technologies (acquired by Siemens). Omri graduated cum laude in engineering from Tel Aviv University after serving as a pilot in the IDF for 7 years.
VP US SALES
Arthur Braunstein is Morphisec’s Vice President of US Sales. Arthur has more than 25 years of executive management and sales leadership experience, including over 10 years in the data and cyber security industry. Before joining Morphisec, he was Vice President at Big Belly, leading their industry sector expansion. Prior to Big Belly, he served as VP Strategic Accounts at CloudLock, a cloud cybersecurity company, where he focused on large enterprise customers. Prior to that, Arthur built the major accounts strategy and portfolio for Verdasys (now known as Digital Guardian). Previously, he held executive level roles at Escort Inc., ArchiText, Polaroid and AT&T.
VP CUSTOMER SERVICES
Yuval Danieli, Vice President of Customer Services, has more than 25 years of building, leading and growing various customer facing functions in several pioneering startups, including four successful Mergers & Acquisitions, such as, Orbotech, Business Layers and Computer Associates. His broad expertise also includes successfully selling, delivering and supporting complex deployments across industries and regions. Prior to Morphisec, Yuval held diverse positions in the Information Security domain, including strategic consulting and evangelism of new solutions.
CTO / VP R&D
Morphisec’s CTO and VP R&D, Michael Gorelik, has more than seven years of hands-on experience leading diverse cybersecurity software development projects and experience in the software industry in general. Prior to Morphisec, Michael was the VP R&D at MotionLogic GmbH and before that served in senior leadership positions at Deutsche Telekom Labs. Michael holds Bsc and Msc degrees from the Computer Science department at Ben-Gurion University, focusing on low level synchronization in different OS architectures. He also jointly holds two patents in the IT space.
VP PRODUCT
Netta Schmeidler, VP Product at Morphisec, has more than 25 years of experience delivering complex enterprise applications and managing global development groups and product teams. Her broad expertise includes all aspects of defining, building and successfully bringing solutions to market. Prior to Morphisec, Netta held senior product management and engineering roles at VMware (Digital Fuel), BMC, Identify Software, and Mercury. She received an MBA from Tel Aviv University, and a BSc in Computer Science from Hebrew University.
CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER
Mordechai Guri, Ph.D., Morphisec’s Chief Science Officer, has more than 20 years of practical research experience. He is lead researcher and lab manager at the Ben Gurion Cyber Security Research Center and was awarded the prestigious IBM PhD International Fellowship (2015-2016). Guri manages academic research in various aspects of cybersecurity to the commercial and governmental sectors. Guri has led a number of breakthrough research projects in cybersecurity, focusing primarily on state-of-the-art challenges in the field of cyberattack and cyber defense. Mordechai examines current paradigms and develops new methods for improved mitigation of security problems in the modern cyber environment. His research topics include OS security, advanced malware, Moving Target Defense (MTD), mobile security and embedded systems. Guri earned his Bsc and Msc, summa cum laude, from the computer science department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Guri holds a Ph.D. from Ben Gurion University.
VP FINANCE
Nir Yaakov, Morphisec’s Vice President of Finance, has over 12 years of experience in senior financial roles, and more than a decade within the high tech industry. He specializes in creating efficient financial management strategies, developing partnerships and driving growth in early to late-stage startups. Prior to Morphisec, Nir held senior financial roles at Intigua, a company providing software configuration management tools. Before Intigua, he served as Controller with Cedar Fund, an international venture capital firm with over $325M under management. Prior to Cedar Fund, Nir held various senior financial management as well as academic positions including Corporate Controller at IXI Mobile ("IXMO"), lecturer at Hebrew University and Senior Auditor with KPMG. Nir holds an MBA as well as a BA (cum laude) in Accounting and Economics from Hebrew University. He is a licensed CPA in Israel and completed the US Tax Study Program at Boston University.
VP, Marketing
Tom Bain is Vice President of Marketing for Morphisec. He leads all Global Marketing initiatives for the company, including strategic go-to-market, analyst, market research, communications, digital marketing, demand generation and partner marketing. He has over 15+ years of experience with leading IT Security organizations.
Previous to Morphisec, Tom was Chief Marketing Officer of Centripetal Networks, a threat intelligence gateway vendor. Prior to that, he served as Vice President, Global Marketing for next-generation endpoint security firm CounterTack. Tom has also worked with many leading security brands including Security Innovation, Q1 Labs (an IBM Company), Application Security, Inc. (a Trustwave company), AffirmTrust, Wave Systems, Sophos, CA and Red Hat. His strategic experience in cyber spans endpoint, database, network and application security, security services and security training.
Tom is a frequent presenter at cybersecurity and investor conferences and his articles have been featured in numerous publications. He earned an MS degree in International Relations and Public Affairs from UMASS and a BA in Communications from Rhode Island College. Tom sits on the advisory board for multiple emerging technology organizations.
BOARD MEMBER
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.
BOARD MEMBER
With his strong background in software and internet based R&D organizations, Gadi is a leading member of JVP’s team, as well as a Chairman of the Board of CyberArk Software (NASDAQ: CYBR), Playcast Media Systems and Siano Mobile. He also serves on the board of directors of ThetaRay, GreenSQL and AnyClip Media. Gadi’s experience gives him strong domain expertise in both the consumer infrastructure world and service provider needs. Before joining JVP, Gadi was Corporate VP of Product Marketing and member of the executive committee for NDS (acquired by Cisco for $5bn), a leader in digital pay-TV systems, supporting some of the largest digital broadcast platforms such as DIRECTV, BSkyB, Canal Digital and more. At NDS, Gadi established the business of digital interactive TV in the late 90s, catering to the likes of Sky Sports, MTV, Discovery, QVC and other leading TV channels. Gadi lead the NDS international marketing team responsible for defining the product scope and roadmap for NDS and established products such as conditional access for secure broadcast, middleware for digital set-tops and integrated PVR solutions. Prior to NDS, Gadi held a variety of positions in software and Internet-based R&D organizations, including Director of Product Marketing at ServiceSoft Corp. Gadi holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics as well as an Executive MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
BOARD MEMBER
Yuval Elovici is the director of the Telekom Innovation Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), head of BGU Cyber Security Research Center, Research Director of iTrust at SUTD, and a Professor in the Department of Information Systems Engineering at BGU. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer and Electrical Engineering from BGU and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from Tel-Aviv University. He served as the head of the software engineering program at BGU for two and a half years. For the past 11 years he has led the cooperation between BGU and Deutsche Telekom. Prof. Elovici has published articles in leading peer-reviewed journals and in various peer-reviewed conferences. In addition, he has co-authored a book on social network security and a book on information leakage detection and prevention. His primary research interests are computer and network security, cyber security, web intelligence, information warfare, social network analysis, and machine learning. Prof. Elovici also consults professionally in the area of cyber security and is the co-founder of Morphisec, startup company that develop innovative cyber-security mechanisms that relate to moving target defense.
BOARD MEMBER
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.
ADVISORY BOARD
Adrian has been working in Information Security for 16 years of his 21 years working in technology. He classes himself as a technologist that specialises in Security. Working now as London Stock Exchange Group CISO having just been HSBC’s CISO where he was in charge of all IT security globally for two years. He has worked in many industries and companies, bringing his unique brand of security that puts the business first. Prior to HSBC Adrian was Executive in Residence at Accel Partners (London) helping and advising startups. CISO at Skype for 5 years where web scale and big-data was one of the most challenging environments to apply security to. Betfair, Man Group, Barclays Capital, BAA, BA, are just some of the other companies he has worked for across high tech and financial sectors. He holds a Masters in Information Security from the University of London.
ADVISORY BOARD
Steve has held executive positions with Internet/Cyber Security organizations for the past 20 years. Most recently, he spent 10 years as President of Kaspersky Lab, Inc. where he founded the North American operation and grew it to $160M by 2013. Steve was also responsible for establishing Kaspersky’s presence in Latin America, and managed a restructuring of the Western European operation. He also served as a member of the parent company’s Board of Directors from 2007-2014. Additionally during the course of his career, Steve has been North American President of internet security companies Sophos, and Dr Solomon’s software which was acquired by McAfee.
ADVISORY BOARD
John F. Petrie III, MBA, CISSP, CISM, CHS-III, CRISC, CBM Mr. Petrie is a 26 year seasoned Technologist and Information Security Professional with solid senior management experience in the Manufacturing, Financial Services, Defense, Technology Consulting, Telecommunications, Education and Academic Healthcare industries. As the Global Chief Information Security Officer for NTT Security Corporation, Mr. Petrie is responsible for the overall global information security strategy and the management of the information security management system. His responsibilities include information security strategy; information security policy development; risk management, analysis and mitigation; security compliance: privacy, and enterprise information security operations. Previous positions include Executive Consultant at IBM; Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Strategist for Harland Clarke Holdings Corp, Program Executive Leader for the Information Technology Transformation Program at Harland Clarke; Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Harland Clarke Holdings Corp supporting four business segments; Chief Information Security Officer for the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Mr. Petrie received an MBA in Information Systems from City University, a Bachelor’s 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.
