Experience

AirData UAV

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Chariman

  • Feb 2015 - Present

  Eldorado Hills, CA Airdata UAV the Golden Standard for Drone flight diagnostics and Compliance. We make sure your drone is safe, healthy and productive in its flight mission.



Yudel Inc.

• President

  • Jan 2009 - Present

  Fernley, Nevada Angel Investments



Traackr Inc

• Initial investor, Strategic direction and EMEA Expansion DreamCatcher

  • Jan 2011 - Jan 2018

  San Francisco, CA Traackr the market leader in Influencer Management a next generation marketing platform to increase the discovery, engagement and measurement of a Company's influencers.



Newvem Acquired by Datapipe Inc Aug 2013

• Angel Investor and Founder

  • Jun 2010 - Aug 2013

  Tel Aviv Newvem, an Analytic as as Service offering for Cloud Usage, analyzes and learns of a User's Cloud usage patterns in a non invasive or intrusive manner. Newvem automatically detects potential problems, pinpoints anomalies and waste, and identifies divergent trends with cloud deployment. Newvem highlights areas of cloud infrastructure that need attention and recommends solutions to better align Cloud usage with underlying business needs and recommends way to optimize Cloud spend.. After… Show more Newvem, an Analytic as as Service offering for Cloud Usage, analyzes and learns of a User's Cloud usage patterns in a non invasive or intrusive manner. Newvem automatically detects potential problems, pinpoints anomalies and waste, and identifies divergent trends with cloud deployment. Newvem highlights areas of cloud infrastructure that need attention and recommends solutions to better align Cloud usage with underlying business needs and recommends way to optimize Cloud spend.. After creating a powerful analytic capability that concurrently tracks over 2500 customers with $300M of annual AWS EC2 spend, supplemented with a powerful Content Marketing engine that had over 30,000 monthly unique visitors coming to Newvem's site for Cloud knowledge, providing Newvem a predictable conversion funnel, Newvem was sold to Datapipe, the leading AWS Managed Service Provider. Show less



Wix

• Israel
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Initial Investor and Initial Chairman

  • Sep 2006 - Jul 2011

  San Francisco Bay Area Market leading web site creation SAAS service that allows for the creation of web sites as easy as a powerpoint. First investor in Wix, accompanied the company to its first round of VC investment in 2008 as Active Chairman. Wix (WIX) went public raising $127 M on the NYSE November 2013 surpassing a $1 B valuation.



BIScience

• Israel
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Former Chairman & Initial Investor

  • Jan 2010 - Jun 2011

  Tel Aviv BI Science, an analytical service to monitor global display ad share of voice on bothe web and mobile.



SIOS Technology Corp.

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Steeleye Inc. Board Director

  • 2007 - Mar 2011

  San Francisco, CA Steeleye Technology a leading High Availability & Disaster Recovery software provider merged into SIOS Technology a subsidiary of SIOS a public Japaneses IT provider



Method

• United States
• Design Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Board of Diectors

  • Nov 2007 - Jan 2010

  San Francisco, CA Method was Acquired by Global Logic in 2010



Aduva

• Software Development

• Chairman & CEO, Outside Board Member

  • Sep 2001 - Apr 2006

  San Francisco, CA Aduva provided Sever Lifecycle Management, Dependency Content & Software (Open & Mixed Source) • Sold Aduva to Sun Microsystems (SUNW) providing investors with a 4 X return on Bridge loan investment in less than 2 years. • Turned company around from a zero revenue technology orientation to a market driven hyper revenue generating.company • Landed anchor F100 customers, recruited mature management team. Closed 30+ F500 customers with over $3 M in booked revenue • After… Show more Aduva provided Sever Lifecycle Management, Dependency Content & Software (Open & Mixed Source) • Sold Aduva to Sun Microsystems (SUNW) providing investors with a 4 X return on Bridge loan investment in less than 2 years. • Turned company around from a zero revenue technology orientation to a market driven hyper revenue generating.company • Landed anchor F100 customers, recruited mature management team. Closed 30+ F500 customers with over $3 M in booked revenue • After Acquisition Aduva revenues continueed to grow to $12 M in 2006 and $32 M in 2007 • Forged strategic relationship with IBM, received IBM’s 2006 Beacon Award granted to premier partners • Expanded into strategic international markets (Europe, Japan, Brazil). Show less



Accrue.com

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board of Directors

  • Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  San Francisco, CA Accrue the premier first generation web anlytics company



VerticalNet

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President, VerticalNet Solutions

  • May 2000 - Dec 2001

  San Francisco, CA Developing & Selling Enterprise Software and Services to enable B2B eCommerce. • Achieved in first year of operation $15M Division revenues and $115M deferred and backlog revenues, 400 employees. • Consolidated 3 separate VERT organizations into one Division. • In lieu of 2001 VERT re-org transitioned Division to VerticalNet CEO



Tradeum Inc

• CEO & President

  • Aug 1999 - Apr 2000

  San Francisco, CA B2B Dynamic Internet Trading Application Software. Acquired by VERT • Increased company valuation from $3M when recruited to $474M when sold to VerticalNet (April 2000) utilizing $8M of invested capital. • Recruited world class management team, grew organization from 10 to 180 employees operating in US, Europe and Israel, • Re-positioned technology focus to an Enterprise Application offering. • Achieved $2M of sales, created strategic relationships and secured reference… Show more B2B Dynamic Internet Trading Application Software. Acquired by VERT • Increased company valuation from $3M when recruited to $474M when sold to VerticalNet (April 2000) utilizing $8M of invested capital. • Recruited world class management team, grew organization from 10 to 180 employees operating in US, Europe and Israel, • Re-positioned technology focus to an Enterprise Application offering. • Achieved $2M of sales, created strategic relationships and secured reference implementations. Show less



Oracle

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President, Industrial Sector

  • Jan 1995 - Sep 1998

  Redwood Shores, Paris France 1996 - 1998: Vice President, Industrial Sector, Oracle’s Industrial Sector, responsible for the development and delivery of industry specific Enterprise applications for the Automotive, Aerospace and High Tech industries, with a global revenue goal of $300 M. • Directly managed the closure of $50M of Revenue winning business away from SAP and BAAN. • Built pan European sales and implementation service organization, recruited European SIs & ISVs. • Attained Executive approval to… Show more 1996 - 1998: Vice President, Industrial Sector, Oracle’s Industrial Sector, responsible for the development and delivery of industry specific Enterprise applications for the Automotive, Aerospace and High Tech industries, with a global revenue goal of $300 M. • Directly managed the closure of $50M of Revenue winning business away from SAP and BAAN. • Built pan European sales and implementation service organization, recruited European SIs & ISVs. • Attained Executive approval to create the Industrial Sector a $300M business unit, attained 150% of target. • Sold and oversaw the implementations of anchor customers for Oracle’s Industrial Sector Solution, including GE, Honda, Motorola, PSA Peugeot, Rockwell, Cummins, Dana, Eaton etc. 1995 - 1996: Director Contributed and executed the development of Oracle’s Vertical market Application business, at joining $100M business (1995), and grew to $2.5 B (1998) Show less