Acquired by McDonald's

Acquired by Cisco

Established Silicon Valley presence for StageOne Ventures, leading early-stage venture capital investments in B2B startups on the US-Israel axis. Led StageOne's investments in Apprente (acquired by McDonalds), Epsagon (acquired by Cisco), Theator, vHive, Apolicy (acquired by Sysdig), UrbanLeap

Acquired by Sysdig

Acquired by Rapid7

Acquired by Rakuten

Responsible for driving Cisco's strategy, acquisitions and venture capital investments across its Service Provider Networking, Mobility, and software-enabled Services and Solutions businesses.Also responsible for Cisco’s corporate development activities in Europe, Israel, Canada, and Emerging Markets.Acquisitions: Leaba (2016), ParStream (2015), Portcullis (2015), Pawaa (2015), MaintenanceNet (2015), Neohapsis (2014), Broadhop (2013), Intucell (2013), Ubiquisys (2013), SolveDirect (2013), Composite Software (2013), Cariden (2012), NDS (2012), Sheer Networks (2005), P-Cube (2004), Actona (2004), Riverhead (2004).Investments: Riverhead (acquired by Cisco), Actona (acquired by Cisco), StoreAge (acquired by LSI Logic), Finjan (NASDAQ:FNJN), Aeroscout (acquired by Stanley B&D), Jungo (acquired by NDS), Exent, Personeta, Compass-EOS, Qumranet (acquired by RedHat), Oversi (acquired by Allot), BitBand (acquired by Motorola), Amobee (acquired by SingTel), Guardium (acquired by IBM), CTera, Optier, Celeno, Wilocity (acquired by Qualcomm), TDSoft/Vocaltec (NASDAQ:CALL), BeConnected, Mavenir (NASDAQ:MVNR), Altiostar, ItsOn, Sensity (acquired by Verizon), Kaiam, Mulesoft (acquired by Salesforce), Evrythng, Openwave Mobility (acquired by Enea), 6Wind, Cinarra, eSentire, Flashpoint, Ozon.ru, Stratoscale, Team8, illusive Networks.

Ran Cisco's corporate development activities in Israel, Europe, and Emerging Markets.Responsible for multiple company acquisitions and minority investments in the areas of Information Security, Wide Area Application Services, Networking Systems & Silicon, Mobile Infrastructure & Software, Network Management, IoT, Service Automation Software, Data Virtualization, Cloud Storage.Between 2009-2011 chaired Cisco’s Israel Site Leadership Board (~500 employees) in addition to Corporate Development role.Starting 2005, spearheaded Cisco's Corporate Development strategy and execution for entry into new/emerging geographies: - Formation of the 3TS-Cisco Growth Fund in Central/Eastern Europe- Cisco’s first direct investment in Russia (Ozon.ru – “Russia’s Amazon”)- Consultation to Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development on ways to catalyze the formation of Russia’s venture capital industry- Formation and anchoring of the Almaz-Cisco Fund - Russia’s very first independent pure-play technology venture capital fund- Initiation of Cisco’s investment strategy and program in Canada- Led Cisco’s investment entry into Brazil through Limited Partnership positions in Redpoint e.Ventures and Monashees.Partnered with Cisco’s corporate social responsibility group on investing in underdeveloped ecosystems (Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories). Led the execution of a Cisco commitment to catalyze the Palestinian tech economy, culminating in the launching of several outsourcing relationships with Palestinian firms, and well as in Cisco’s investments into the Sadara fund, and Abraaj Palestine.

Senior investment professional at largest Israeli-originated venture capital firm with over $1 billion under management. Helped establish Pitango's Silicon Valley presence.Board-level responsibilities with Clearforest (acquired by Reuters), Breach Security (F.k.a Gilian, acquired by Trustwave), Mercado Software (acquired by Omniture), RADLAN (acquired by Marvell).

Ran Israeli subsidiary of world's first company to create color management system software for the desktop environment. Led product expansion into Internet-based photo-sharing, imaging, and production services.

Co-founder of Colordesk (A spinoff from NADSAQ:EFII). Led complex technology transfer from EFI, and ran Engineering for the spinoff - the first company in the world to bring color management to the desktop environment.

Led various software development projects designated as next-generation client-server extensions for EFI's flagship Fiery product