With a proven track record in both business and technology, Idan is a serial entrepreneur and a recognized expert in the field of cyber security and intelligence. Prior to founding Fortscale, he initiated, built and led the Cyber Security Business Group of Elbit Systems (NASDAQ:ELST), Israel’s leading defense integrator. This Group became the leading growth engine of Elbit Systems, and managed major Cyber Security and Warfare technological projects in Israel and abroad.

Before that, Idan was a Business Analysis Manager at Elron, the technological investment arm of IDB Holdings, one of the leading holding companies in Israel. Prior to his business career, he served as an officer and head of a key department in the IDF’s elite Intelligence & Cyber Unit (8200). Idan holds a B.Sc. in Industrial & Management Engineering from Tel Aviv University.

A seasoned industry expert and entrepreneur, Yona has over 20 years of management and technology experience in the cyber security space. Prior to founding Fortscale, he founded and managed Cyber Security, a boutique technology consulting firm. Yona also was a founder and served as VP of Security Research at Entercept, which was acquired by McAfee in 2003 for $120M. Yona then continued as VP of Security Research at McAfee HQ in Santa Clara.

Before that, he founded and worked as VP of Business Development at Netect, a pioneer in vulnerability assessment technology, which was acquired by BindView in 1999. Yona holds a PhD. in Computer Science from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion).

With 20 years of management experience in the fields of R&D, Product Management and Business Development, Inbar’s proven expertise and knowledge spans the analytics, security, mobile communications, IPTV and Billing sectors.

Prior to joining Fortscale, Inbar was Senior Director of Product Management of Cellebrite, a provider of mobile forensics extraction and analytics solutions, where she was responsible for seven products deployed in law enforcement agencies around the world. Before that, Inbar served as a Director of Product Management in Comverse’s Mobile Data and Policy Management Division. In this capacity, she directed the product roadmap and market positioning of the division products for Tier 1 & Tier 2 mobile operators around the world.

She holds B.Sc. Industrial Engineering and Management from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

With a 30-year career in high-technology management, Bert brings with him proven expertise and leadership in developing innovative, world-class software solutions for enterprise customers in both domestic and international markets.

He comes to Fortscale from ThreatMetrix, Inc., a comprehensive cybercrime prevention solution provider, where he served as chief marketing officer. His accomplishments include managing worldwide functions, increasing revenues fiftyfold, and establishing ThreatMetrix as a premier brand in its field.

Before that, Bert was president and CEO of Shopcreator Services Ltd., which offers a hosted e-commerce business solution. Managing all day-to-day operational activities, Bert negotiated an important merger and expanded the company’s installed base to over 1,350 worldwide customers.

Bert’s previous experience also includes serving as vice president and senior vice president of marketing at several business software–focused companies, including Maxager Technology Inc., Intacct Inc., Callidus Software Inc., and NetManage Inc.

Bert holds an MBA degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in economics from Harvard University.

A proven technology leader and serial entrepreneur, Ophir brings to Fortscale over 17 years experience in the information security space. Prior to joining Fortscale, he worked at VMware for more than eight years, where he led their security efforts, including patenting machine introspection technologies and launching the VMsafe partner program with leading security vendors such as Symantec, McAfee and TrendMicro. Before that, Ophir co-founded Securimine, an early security data analytics company that applied data mining concepts to security logs.

Ophir began his career in the internet security space in 1998 as a co-founder of Entercept Security, which was acquired by McAfee in 2003. Entercept launched the industry’s first Host-Based Intrusion Prevention product (in essence coining the term), and its innovative core technology is still part of many leading security products to this day. Ophir earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion).

Gilad is responsible for product deployment, consulting and support, ensuring that Fortscale customers are extremely satisfied with the product’s value, deployment, and benefit to their organizations’ security analytics initiatives. Prior to Fortscale, he spent 9 years with Varonis Systems, where he was responsible for global professional services and earlier managed sales engineering teams on the US West Coast and in the Asia-Pacific region.

Previously, he held several positions managing professional services teams for iPhrase, Banter, and Vocaltec communications. He started his career as a technical officer in the Israeli Air Force. Gilad holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Tzlil brings to Fortscale more than 20 years of experience in financial management, corporate finance, consolidation, control and accounting, mainly in the high-tech sector.

Before joining Fortscale, Tzlil served as a CFO and a Director of Finance in several startups in the area of IT, telecommunication, clean-tech and security. In each of these positions, he led the company’s financial operations from inception to sustained business/exit.Tzlil is a CPA and holds an MBA in Business Management and a BA in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University.

Ori is a cyber security and data algorithms specialist. He is a graduate of Talpiot, a highly exclusive military institute in Israel designed to train technological leaders for the defense sector. Ori served in the elite technological unit of the IDF’s Intelligence Corps, where he gained both practical experience and in-depth knowledge of the cyber security domain.

For over 20 years, Lynn Strand has been creating and executing marketing programs that inspire people to take action while creating smiles along the way. Well known for her excellent track record in generating and nurturing leads, her success comes from understanding how to develop integrated marketing campaigns that build brands and drive revenue.

Yaron brings more than 10 years of experience in designing developing and maintaining large systems over a variety of platforms operating systems and programming environments. He has significant experience in security and in implementing algorithms and some algorithm innovations taken from different areas like data mining, data distribution, load balancing (storage), anomaly detection and distributed computing. Prior to Fortscale, he was a co-founder of Xrosspace, a startup company that delivered a social content aggregator. He also served as a software engineer in leading storage team in IBM. Prior to that he had serves as a software engineer in networking security team in Cisco Systems, managing innovative projects in the field of network behavior anomaly detection.

He has B.Sc in Computer Science at IDC Hertzliya and M.Sc. in Computer Science at Tel Aviv University (Summa Cum laude) focused on algorithms and won DISC Award in 2005.

Idan has been working for over five years in software development and data analytics, focusing on machine learning and data mining solutions. He has significant experience in back-end development in a various technologies, as well as implementation of innovative machine learning algorithms. Before joining Fortscale, Idan was a software developer and tech lead at Intel. In this capacity, he worked as part of a team responsible for delivering machine learning solutions over a Big Data platform for applications such as the Internet of Things, Manufacturing, and Health.

Tami brings to Fortscale over 15 years of Human Resources management expertise, including leading and implementing HR and Organizational Development Processes at growth-stage startups. Using her extensive skills and knowledge, Tami has a proven track record for effectively managing recruitment at all levels. Prior to joining Fortscale, she served as ​an HR consultant for growing startups, as well as HR Manager at Mobixell, where she was responsible for recruiting, welfare, training plans, employee care, management development and consulting​.

For over thirty years, Steve has been directly involved in establishing, building and directing Information Security and Privacy functions. He is the founder and President of Security Risk Solutions, LLC an information security company providing consulting and advisory services to major, mid-size, startup and venture capital companies.

Kobi is the VP Security of Wix.com and a global executive leader of information security with over 15 years of experience in security and risk management, program management, and security implementation in large organizations and online companies.

Jochanan is an internationally recognized information systems and network expert with over two decades experience in strategic planning, project management, development and implementation of large-scale national and international data networks, information security solutions as well as critical telecom and e-commerce solutions.

Professor Yuval Elovici is a renowned expert in Cyber Security and warfare. He is the Director of the Telekom Innovation Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University and an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems Engineering of Ben-Gurion University. In this capacity, Prof. Elovici has led the cooperation between Ben-Gurion University and Deutsche Telekom in the area of cyber security over the past ten years.