Our Executive Sales Team

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Steve DiEugenio brings over 20 years of sales and engineering experience in datacom, telecom, mobile/broadband voice, video and multimedia collaboration technologies holding positions in both software and hardware sectors. He has an accomplished record in implementing and managing effective sales strategies and producing serious revenue.

Steve was one of the early founders of Radvision in the United States and most recently served as Vice President of Sales at ClearOne Communications. Steve studied Political Science and Computer Science at Washington College in Chestertown Maryland.

Amnon Raviv joined GigaSpaces in 2006. He currently heads GigaSpaces’ ISV and OEM sales in the Americas, as well as all direct sales in Western US and in South America.

Amnon has over 20 years of hands-on and executive experience in sales, business development, marketing, and consulting in the enterprise software space, with particular focus on middleware, cloud computing and SaaS. Prior to joining GigaSpaces, Amnon served as Vice President of Business Development at RightOrder, Inc. specializing in business intelligence, search and hosted ecommerce applications. Prior to that Amnon held senior management positions with operations and management consulting firms.

 Amnon holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Tel Aviv University and an International Baccalaureate Diploma from Atlantic College in the UK (a UWC College).

Mr. Ravi Gadhia is a computer engineer who has focused on helping establish and grow numerous early stage start-up companies, with links in Silicon Valley and the Asia-Pacific region. He has worked in various technology-oriented capacities spanning Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Engineering organizations across a number of industries, including semiconductors, software, video games, automotive electronics, and academic research.

In his role at GigaSpaces Technologies, Ravi leads activities in the western region of the US with a focus on building strategic enterprise partnerships. Previously, he has served as Solutions Architect and Technical Account Management roles for GigaSpaces. Prior to that, he held senior engineering positions based out of Silicon Valley at SimTone Corporation, a cloud-computing start-up company, and Aureal Inc, a digital audio semiconductor start-up company.

Ravi holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University.

Shay joined GigaSpaces in 2003, having more than 15 years of experience in the software industry.

Shay is part of the product leadership team and oversees the technical activities of the US operations, serving as the US CTO, escorting the pre-sale and post-sale activities.

Shay has in-depth technical experience with diverse technologies including Cloud Computing, Distributed Caching , Application servers, SOA, SBA, SaaS, Low-latency systems, and has been involved with projects in different verticals: Financial Services, Telecom, Gaming, E-commerce, Defense, and more working with Fortune 100 companies.

Prior joining GigaSpaces Shay served as Lead Architect and Technical Manager at Versant, and VMDB Database Tools Lead Architect at Sirius Technologies.

Shay holds a B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ben Gurion University in the Negev.

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Jim Liddle spearheads operations and sales for GigaSpaces in the UK and Northern Europe having joined GigaSpaces in 2006 to expand European operations. 

Prior to GigaSpaces Jim was the General Manager for Europe and New York Finance for Versata (VATA) a business process and rules management company headquartered in Oakland, California. During his 6 years at Versata, Jim also worked in Technical, Product Management, and Product Marketing roles.

Jim has extensive experience of Middleware and Cloud technologies and is co-author of the Book, "TheSavvyGuideTo HPC, Grid, Data Grid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing".

Jim holds a BA (hons) from Brunel University in History and Computer Science, and an MSc. in Data Communications.

Jim's blog can be found at http://www.liddle.info.

Mickey Alon leads sales for the EMEA region at GigaSpaces, with a strong technical background in Cloud Computing, SOA, XTP, JEE, Spring , Grid and virtualization technologies.

Mickey is responsible for defining and executing sales strategies in EMEA, as well as building a self-containing business plan covering all aspects of the business and driving it with the involved disciplines of the company, in addition to delivering sales through existing channels and identifying new ones. 

Mickey has 10 years of technical hands on experience with distributed technology and architecture namely J2EE, Grid, SOA and middleware as an architect and technical director.

Mickey holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Mercy College, and an MBA from Heriot-Watt University.

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William has more than 20 years of experience in the IT and financial industry, he started his career at Andersen Consulting where he acquired his project management skills building large enterprise applications for many large global companies. He joined Deutsche Bank's Asia Pacific Head Office in 1996 and was responsible for building many of their IT application teams, he was their Regional Head of eCommerce IT team when he left to start up his own IT company during the Dotcom era. Subsequently, he joined a large regional brokerage as their Chief Information Officer, as well as a global online gambling company as their Head of Gaming Solutions, building complex low latency trading/betting applications, before joining GigaSpaces.

William holds a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the National University of Singapore.