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Management

Zeev Bikowsky – Chief Executive Officer

Zeev Bikowsky brings extensive management experience in the telecommunications, networking and unified communication industries.

Zeev joins GigaSpaces from Radvision, serving as General Manager of the Networking Business Unit, a $70 million annual unit, providing infrastructure for the unified communication market. During his time at Radvision, he also served as GM of the Technology Business Unit. Prior to that, Zeev was the CEO of Seagull Semiconductor, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2000. He has also served in various other management positions, including a VP position at DSP Group, a leading global provider of wireless chipset solutions for converged communications.

Zeev holds a B.Sc. in Engineering from Ben Gurion University of the Negev and an MBA from Boston University.


Nati Shalom – Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Nati is the CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces. He is responsible for defining the technology roadmap and the direction of GigaSpaces' products. Nati is also a thought leader in Cloud computing and is the founder of the Israeli cloud.org consortium. He has 15 years of experience with distributed computing and known as an industry expert in building large scale deployments. As a software visionary and industry leader, Mr. Shalom is a frequent presenter at industry conferences.

Nati holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Coventry University, U.K

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Adi Paz – Executive Vice President, Marketing and Business Development

Adi Paz is Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, responsible for developing and communicating GigaSpaces’ strategy, managing the company's go-to-market activities and its strategic alliances.

Prior to joining GigaSpaces, Adi served as Vice President of Marketing and Products and Vice President of Business Development at Radvision, specializing in selling and marketing solutions to the developer and enterprise markets. Adi also held senior Product Management and Business Development positions at Starhome, a Comverse company, focusing on the carriers market. Overall, Adi has over 18 years of experience in the Telecom space in business management, international marketing, strategic sales, channel development and products development.

Adi holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Ben Gurion University and a MBA from Tel-Aviv University.


Galit Sasson – Vice President, Finance

Galit Sasson is responsible for managing GigaSpaces' financial, accounting and operations worldwide.

Prior to joining GigaSpaces, Galit served for approximately 9 years as a senior manager at the Tax Department of Ernst & Young, and specialized in consulting to VCs and high-tech companies. She participated in international tax planning, economic consulting, and financial statement compilations.

Galit is an Israeli Certified Public Accountant and holds a BA in Accounting and Business Management from the Business Management College and a MBA, specializing in Finance, from Bar Ilan University.


Guy Korland - Vice President, Research and Development

Guy is the head of R&D at GigaSpaces, leading the team that develops GigaSpaces XAP.

Guy has over 10 years’ experience in software development, with key roles in software development, team leadership, and consultancy. He joined GigaSpaces 5 years ago, and most recently served as team leader of the core development team, leading the development of the In-Memory Data Grid, GigaSpaces' core technology. Before joining GigaSpaces, Guy was Chief Developer of a bio-information product at IBM Research (HRL), leading the first-generation architectural design. Previously, Guy worked for MIND CTI as a developer building a large-scale real-time enterprise billing system. Guy holds a B.A. and M.Sc. from the Technion (Israeli Institute of Technology) and is a Ph.D. candidate at Tel Aviv University.


Gershon Diner - Vice President, Customer Services & Support

Gershon is responsible for managing the company’s worldwide customer services, including the post sales Consultancy Services which defined and executes the professional services for our customers; and the Technical Support organization, which provides 24/7 support to GigaSpaces' demanding customers, which include numerous Fortune 100/500 companies.

Gershon has over a decade of various leadership roles and expertise in the software industry, combining product development, customer facing, services and product management. Prior to his current role, Gershon served as GigaSpaces Technical Product Manager, focusing on improving product user experience. His accomplishments included establishing the product quality release criteria and the GigaSpaces Early Access program.

Prior to that, Gershon was the head of a development team in the R&D, in which he was responsible for development of the monitoring, configuration and Enterprise integrations of XAP releases 3, 4, 5 and 6. Before joining GigaSpaces, Gershon held several technological and management positions for Diamond Tree Tech, a startup leading the BPM market. Gershon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Shenkar College of Engineering and Design.


Uri Cohen - Vice President, Product Management

Uri is responsible for everything product related at GigaSpaces, and leads the definition and execution of the company’s product strategy.

He has been with the company for the past four and a half years, serving in a variety of customer facing and technology roles from solutions architect through technology evangelist.

Uri is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, covering cloud computing, space-based architecture, and distributed computing.

He has over 11 years of technology leadership experience, specializing in middleware and cloud technologies such as JEE, Spring, XTP, and distributed computing.

Before joining GigaSpaces Uri served as a software development manager at Ness TSG (formerly ATL), leading the development of a highly scalable, distributed, mission-critical system for the defense vertical.

Uri holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University, and an MBA from the Recanati School of Business at Tel Aviv University.