Lior Samuelson has been a member of the Board since August 2010 and has held the
position of Chairman of the Board since December 2010. Mr. Samuelson became Chief
Executive Officer at Cyren in 2013. During his extensive career, Mr. Samuelson
has served as chairman, CEO and board member of companies in technology, telecommunications,
financial services and management consulting, such as Deltathree (DDDC), PricewaterhouseCoopers
Securities and The Barents Group. Mr. Samuelson was previously a managing partner
with KPMG and a senior manager at Booz Allen Hamilton. Mr. Samuelson holds both
a B.A. and a M.A. in economics from Virginia Tech.
Aviv Raiz has served as a Director since December 2005. Mr. Raiz has over 20
years of foreign exchange market and private equity investing experience. He
founded and is the president of Eurotrust Ltd. and has been a private equity
investor in several high-tech, bio-tech, and Internet companies over the last
ten years. Mr. Raiz received his B.A. in Economics and Political Science as
well as an MBA in Finance, from Tel Aviv University.
Hila Karah joined the Board of Directors in March 2008. Ms. Karah is the former
CIO of Eurotrust Ltd. and is an investor in several high-tech, bio-tech and
Internet companies. Prior to Eurotrust, she served as a partner financial analyst
at Perceptive Life Sciences Ltd., a New York-based hedge fund, and was a research
analyst at Oracle Partners Ltd., a health care-focused hedge fund based in Connecticut.
Ms. Karah is currently a Director and member of the audit and compensation committees
at Intec Pharma (Nasdaq: INTC), and Director and member of the compensation
committee at DarioHealth (Nasdaq: DRIO). Ms. Karah holds a B.A. in Molecular
and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and has studied
at the UCB-UCSF JMP.
Todd Thomson joined the Board of Directors in November 2011 and has held the
position of Lead Director since December 2015. Mr. Thomson is chairman of Dynasty
Financial Partners, as well as the founder and CEO of Headwaters Capital. He
served in top management positions at Citigroup, including CFO of the Company
and CEO of the Global Wealth Management division. Prior to joining Citigroup,
Todd Thomson held senior executive positions at GE Capital, Barents Group and
Bain & Co. He is also a board member of Century Bank as well as chairman
of the Wharton Leadership Advisory Board. Todd Thomson received his MBA, with
Distinction, from the Wharton School of Business and his bachelor’s degree
in economics from Davidson College.
James Hamilton joined the Board of Directors in February 2012. Mr. Hamilton
is Chairman of Wedge Networks. Mr. Hamilton has more than 25 years of leadership
experience in senior executive roles across many highly successful high-tech
companies. He brings proven success at building and leading high-potential,
high growth companies from startup to IPO and often through acquisition. Mr.
Hamilton was the CEO of Tipping Point, the renowned market leader in Intrusion
Prevention Systems (IPS). Mr. Hamilton was also president of Click Security,
and president of Efficient Networks, which also achieved a highly successful
IPO and was later acquired by Siemens. He has also held various senior sales
roles with multiple companies; most recently as SVP of worldwide sales and field
operations at Cyan, Inc. Mr. Hamilton is also the president of Valletta Capital,
LLC and is active in multiple venture capital, corporate, and charitable boards.
David Earhart joined the Board of Directors in July 2013. David Earhart is
President of Data Protection and Endpoint Management at Quest Software, which
was spun out of Dell Software and is backed by Francisco Partners and Elliott
Management. Mr. Earhart brings more than 20 years of security and systems management
experience to his role. Previously, David was CEO of Core Security and served
as SVP of Worldwide Field Operations for Damballa, a leading provider of advanced
threat protection. In this role, he was responsible for record, triple-digit
growth. Before this, David was SVP of Security (IAM) Field Operations at CA
Technologies, where his team delivered 300% growth in the security business.
Prior to that, David held leadership and executive positions at BMC Software
and venture-backed companies within the sales, support and services functions.
He holds a B.B.A. in Finance from Texas Tech University.
John Becker joined the Board of Directors as an Outside Director under the
Companies Law in April 2017. Mr. Becker brings more than 30 years of security
industry and technology experience and offers a lengthy record of growing highly
successful companies. In addition to serving on numerous boards, he previously
served as the Chief Executive Officer of Sourcefire, ScienceLogic, Approva,
Cybertrust, Trusecure, and AXENT Technologies. John is a CPA and graduated from
the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond.
Cary Davis joined the board of directors in November 2017. Mr. Davis is a Managing
Director at Warburg Pincus, which he joined in 1994, and focuses on investments
in the software and financial technology sectors. He also serves on the boards
of several private companies. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he was Executive
Assistant to Michael Dell at Dell Computer and a consultant at McKinsey &
Company. Mr. Davis received a B.A. in economics from Yale University and an
M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Brian Chang joined the board of directors in November 2017. Mr. Chang is a
Principal at Warburg Pincus, which he joined in 2005 and returned in 2009. Mr.
Chang focuses on investments in the technology, software and financial technology
sectors. He currently serves on the board of several private companies. Prior
to joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Chang worked at Merrill Lynch focusing on corporate
finance and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Mr. Chang received a B.S.
with Distinction in electrical engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A.
from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Boris Bogod joined Cyren in August 2017 and is responsible for the infrastructure
and operation of Cyren’s global security cloud. He brings to the task
over 20 years of experience deploying, managing and optimizing IT networks and
the delivery of cloud services. Boris joined Cyren from Sears Israel (subsidiary
of SHC) where he served as Vice President of Operations, and previously held
senior operations and infrastructure management positions for several Web based
companies including ICAP, Playtech and others. Boris holds B.Sc. in Industrial
Engineering and Management (specialization in Information Systems) from Ben-Gurion
University in the Negev.
Ben Carmi joined Cyren in December 2015 and is responsible for developing and
delivering Cyren’s product vision, as well as overseeing the company’s
global product management teams. He joined Cyren with more than 13 years of
product leadership experience, most recently as vice president of product management
at Radware. He has also held key product management roles at Check Point Software
and RiT Technologies. Ben graduated from Tel Aviv University with a bachelor’s
degree in industrial engineering and a master’s degree in public policy.
Mickey DiPietro joined Cyren in March 2016 and manages Cyren’s global
sales team, including Threat Intelligence Services and Enterprise Sales. A seasoned
sales executive with a track record of success at global security leaders, DiPietro
was originally hired to grow Cyren’s sales and channel organization and
accelerate growth in North America, launching the company’s Austin, Texas
office in the summer of 2016. Before joining Cyren, DiPietro was responsible
for establishing and growing Zscaler’s mid-market sales organization.
Prior to that, he ran the mid-market sales organizations for Authentic8, Google,
and Postini.
Cyren Ltd currently has 239 employees.
