Prior to founding Safend, Gil Sever held several senior level positions within the security industry.  Mr. Sever served as COO of ECTEL (NASDAQ:ECTX), a leading provider of monitoring solutions for IP, telephony and cellular networks. He also held the position of Israel Site Manager and VP R&D for Aeroscout (formerly Bluesoft), a company focusing on WiFi and Bluetooth location finding. Prior to his positions in the private sector, Mr. Sever served 18 years in the Israeli Defense Forces, where he managed Strategic Planning and large scale R&D groups and projects in the areas of communications, communication-protocols and data security. Mr. Sever holds B.SC and M.SC degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion and Tel Aviv Universities respectively.

Prior to joining Safend, Mr. Fishman Served as Chief Financial Officer and legal advisor for Medic4All Group, a Swiss multinational group of companies that develops telemedicine products and services. Mr. Fishman also served as a board member for several of Medic4All Group’s companies, including two Ireland-based companies and an Israeli R&D company. Previously, Mr. Fishman held management positions at Ernst & Young and KPMG. Mr. Fishman holds a L.L.B. degree in Law, a B.Sc. degree in Accounting and an MBA in finance management from the Tel-Aviv University.

Prior to joining Safend, Edy Almer managed the Encryption and Endpoint DLP products in the Endpoint Security Group at Symantec (SYMC). Mr Almer managed the memory cards product line at M-Systems, prior to its acquisition by Sandisk (SNDK). Mr. Almer previously drove the launch of several flagship projects at Orange (PTNR), Israel’s fastest growing cellular operator, resulting in 100,000 new 3G customers one year after launch.  As the CTO of Partner Future Comm, Mr. Almer charted the product and company strategy for potential venture capital recipient companies. Mr. Almer holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Technion, and his MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Mr. Carmi built Safend’s R&D Server team from the ground up as early team member at Safend. Prior to joining the Safend management team, Mr. Carmi led Safend’s engineering department, where he drove the infrastructure and architecture for Safend’s flagship products and defined the technical requirements and solutions for major OEM partners worldwide. Prior to joining Safend, Mr. Carmi worked in the IBM research group, where he participated in various research initiatives such as the product definition for innovative application generation prototypes. As a member of Microsoft’s Research group, Mr. Carmi also conducted programming language and compiler related research. Prior to this position, Mr. Carmi was a Software Engineer at Intel, responsible for numerous software development projects. Mr. Carmi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Technion University.

Prior to his role as AVP Projects, Mr. Milman was a senior director of Program Management and QA.  As a senior director he was responsible for managing the versions delivery process at Safend and a variety of worldwide OEM projects.  Prior to joining Safend, Mr. Milman worked as Test Automation Consultant at Amdocs Ltd. (NYSE:DOX) where he led large scale automation projects for leading telecommunication companies in Denmark, the US and the UK.  He also held the position of R&D Team Leader for Sat-Smart Ltd., a company focusing on Wireless Data Systems, Products and Applications for service providers in the Telematics industry.  Prior to his positions in the private sector, Mr. Milman served in the Israeli Defense Forces, where he led large scale intelligence projects with the Ministry of Defense.  Mr. Milman has a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from the Technion Institute of Technology.