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This list showcases the top Tel Aviv based CEO’ operating in the Security space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Shlomo Kramer
Co-Founder & CEO of Cato Networks
Shlomo is co-founder and CEO of Cato Networks. He is a network security expert and a serial entrepreneur. Shlomo has co-founded Check Point Software, who created the first commercial Firewall, and Imperva, the innovator of the Web Application Firewall. Shlomo has made early investments in successful cybersecurity companies including Palo Alto Networks, Trusteer, and numerous others. He was named CEO of the Year by SC Magazine in 2008, one of “20 luminaries who changed the network industry” by Network World in 2006, and was inducted into the InfoSec Hall of Fame in April 2013. Shlomo holds a master’s degree in computer science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University.
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About Alicanto, Aqua Security, At-Bay, Cato Networks, Exabeam, Fundbox, Indegy, TopSpin Security: Cato Networks is a provider of a SASE platform that converges SD-WAN and security into a cloud-native service.
Ouriel Ohayon
CEO, Co-Founder of ZenGo
Ouriel Ohayon is a Co-Founder and CEO at ZenGo.
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About Isai, KZen Networks, LGiLab, ZenGo, ZenGo: ZenGo is the world’s first keyless crypto wallet.
Matan Or-El
Co-Founder & CEO of Panorays
Matan brings his entrepreneurial background addressing untapped markets with his experience in building enterprise-focused security solutions. In his role, he combines his technical background with business leadership and vision. Matan established his first startup at the age of 18, and others ranging from location-based systems to cyber-security. He started Panorays with the goal of improving the industry’s cyber-resilience. Matan served in the Israeli Air Force as chief architect responsible for mission-critical defense systems. Later, he worked at Imperva leading the infrastructure for all of Imperva’s products portfolio. Matan is recognized as one of Israel’s 40 under 40.
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About Panorays: Panorays provides management software that automates the third-party security process, allowing it to be scaled and accelerated.
Dotan Bar Noy
Co-founder and CEO of Authomize
Dotan Bar Noy is the Co-founder and CEO of Authomize.
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About Authomize: Authomize is a governance and management solution that allows organizations to manage applications across hybrid environments.
Mooly Sagiv
CEO of Certora
Professor and a Chair of Software Systems in the School of Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University with 30 years of experience in formal methods and static code analysis. He contributed techniques which were integrated into the Microsoft device driver verification tool and Panaya ERP tool acquired by Infosys. He is also a co-designer of Ivy. He a fellow of ACM and a recipient of Microsoft Outstanding Award for contributions to formal methods. Sagiv is a recipient of the most prestigious European grant. He has more than 200 academic publications with Google H-index 55.
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About Certora: Certora provides unique technology for guaranteeing code correctness and security
Gal Ringel
Co-Founder and CEO of Mine
Gal Ringel is the Co-Founder and CEO at Mine.
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About Mine, Verizon Ventures: Mine provides a smart data assistant that enables people to discover and control their personal data online.
Yoav Keren
Co-Founder & CEO of BrandShield
Yoav has over 25 years of experience in financial management, marketing and business development. His first company Domain The Net, which he co-founded in 2000, is the largest domain name registrar in Israel. Yoav was a Council Member at ICANN, and is actively involved in the International Trademark Association (INTA), the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) and the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Yoav was Senior Advisor to a minister in the Israeli government and was the head of the Technology branch of the Israeli military’s Information Security Department. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg & Recanati business school (Northwestern University & Tel-Aviv University), and a B.A. in Economics and Physics from the Tel-Aviv University.
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About BrandShield, Domain The Net Technologies: BrandShield is a digital risk protection and brand protection company providing threat detection and remediation solutions.
Gil Dabah
Co-Founder & CEO of Piiano
Gil Dabah is the Co-Founder and CEO at Piiano.
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About NorthBit, Piiano: Piiano develops privacy engineering infrastructure for cloud-native applications.
Uri May
Co-Founder & CEO of Hunters
Uri May is the co-founder and CEO of Hunters.AI.
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About Hunters: Hunters is an information technology company that provides cybersecurity and software services.
Ron Teicher
Founder & CEO of EverC
Ron is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of EverCompliant. Ron led EverCompliant from inception to becoming the world technological pioneer and leader in the field of merchant base fraud and Transaction Laundering detection.Today, EverCompliant’s serves some of the world’s largest financial intuitions. Prior to EverCompliant, Ron led the compliance product initiatives at Watchfire (acquired by IBM). Watchfire’s compliance product won the first ever SC magazine’s Excellence award for security compliance solution. Ron is a member of the Israeli bar association, and is frequent speaker at payment and fin-tech events.
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About EverC: EverC provides cyber intelligence tools that detect and prevent money laundering through online transactions.
Yaniv Bar-Dayan
Co-founder & CEO of Vulcan Cyber
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About Vulcan Cyber: Vulcan Cyber is a cybersecurity company that helps enterprises quickly detect and fix vulnerabilities in their software stack and code.
Nir Lempert
CEO of Mer Group
Nir Lempert has more than 25 years experience in in various management roles, both in the military and in civilian organizations. Today, Nir serves as CEO of C. MER industries, focusing on the groups’ vast capabilities as a leading global communication and security systems integrator. Determined to maintain their leadership and relevance, Nir insists on remaining at the cutting edge and offering customers the very latest services, solutions and technologies, including end-to-end solutions in the areas of communication infrastructure, Homeland Security, Intelligence & cyber. Prior to the Mer Group, Nir was the CEO of Zap group for nearly a decade. He led the company’s transfer from a print oriented company to one of the prominent internet groups in Israel. Previously he served as the CEO of Channel 10 and the Executive Vice President of Yes Satellite TV. Both are leading Israeli communication institutes. Nir served 22 years in IDF, as part of Unit 8200, the Israeli Intelligence unit. Among his roles: head of planning, head of the intelligence center and deputy commander of 8200. He retired with the rank of Colonel and carries out the role of the chairman of 8200 alumni association.
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About Mer Group: Mer Group Telecom Division deliver wireless network infrastructure, consulting services, and tools in the areas of Civil Engineering.
Amitai Ratzon
CEO of Pentera
Amitai Ratzon brings over 15 years of Enterprise Sales Leadership to Pcysys, having scaled global sales teams at leading companies such as SuperDerivatives, a market leader in Derivatives Pricing and Risk Management (NASDAQ:ICE)) and Earnix, a market leader in the field of Consumer Predictive Analytics for Financial Services companies. Prior to Pcysys, Amitai was the VP of Global Sales at CallVU, an emerging player in the Mobile Digital Engagement Space. Amitai holds a B.A in Business Administration and an LL.B, both from the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya and an International Executive MBA from Kellogg-Recanati, granted jointly by Tel Aviv University, Israel and Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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About Pentera: Pentera is a penetration testing company that develops and provides an automated security validation platform to reduce cybersecurity risks.
Nir Perry
Founder and CEO of Cyberwrite
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About Cyberwrite: Cyberwrite predicts the economic impact and cyber risk of any company in real-time based on cyber intelligence feeds and advanced AI
Zohar Halachmi
CEO of D-Fend Solutions
Zohar is the Founder and CEO of SellAring. Zohar brings with him over 20 years of experience in senior management, strategic account management, business development, entrepreneurship, technology development, and innovation. In his most recent position before founding SellAring, Zohar served as VP global sales of ECI telecom. Prior to ECI telecom Zohar served as VP Asia at Amdocs, based in Hong-Kong. Prior to Amdocs, Zohar founded Thetis technology where he held the positions of Chairman and CEO. Thetis Technologies, a Boston based start-up developed and market a revolutionary SaaS (Software As A Service) Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) suite for the high-technology industry, and was the first to offer SaaS solution to enterprises. Previously, he spent 3 years with Orckit Communications as CIO, and held development and project management positions at Lucent Technologies and Tower Semiconductors. In his spare time Zohar lectures at the Technion – Israel institute of Technology and at Tel Aviv University.
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About D-Fend Solutions: D-Fend Solutions is the leading counter-drone cyber-takeover technology provider, enabling full control, safety, & continuity.
Chemi Katz
Co-Founder and CEO of Namogoo
Chemi Katz is the Co-Founder and CEO at Namogoo.
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About Namogoo: Making Unstoppable Customer Journeys
Dan Brahmy
Co-Founder and CEO of Cyabra
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About Cyabra: Cyabra is breaking down social media to empower brands and uncover disinformation.
Eran Shtauber
CEO of Catapult Technologies
Eran Shtauber is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Catapult Technologies.
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About Catapult Technologies, Kela Group: Catapult is a software platform that locates, explore and characterize automatically indications for frauds public companies.
Sharon Mantin
Founder and CEO of Imvision
Sharon Mantin has 17 years of experience in marketing, product management and system engineering. Prior to founding imVision, Sharon Mantin served as VP Marketing and Products at Orckit-Corrigent and previously as a Product Line Management Director at Corrigent Systems. Sharon Mantin joined Corrigent form Texas Instruments (TI), where he served as a Product Management Manager responsible for all cable product lines. Prior to TI, Sharon Mantin served as Marketing Director at Axonlink (subsidiary of ECI Telecom) responsible for all marketing and product management activities. Previously, Sharon Mantin held several system engineering positions at Orckit communication.
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About Imvision: How enterprises secure their APIs — Protect your APIs wherever they are, throughout their lifecycle.
Gilad Sahar
CEO, Co-Founder of Convexum
Gilad Sahar is Co-Founder and CEO of Convexum, a fully automatic counter-drone perimeter protection solution.
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About Convexum: A pioneering solution for takeover, navigation and landing of rogue or malicious drones
Lior Lamesh
Co-Founder and CEO of GK8
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About GK8: GK8 is a cybersecurity company that offers a high-security custodian technology for managing and safeguarding digital assets.
Avi Chesla
Founder, CTO & CEO of empow
Avi is a recognized leader in the Internet security arena internationally, with expertise in product strategy, cyber security, network behavioral analysis, expert systems and Software Defined Networking. Prior to empow, Avi was CTO and VP of Security Products at Radware, where he was responsible for defining, leading and executing the company’s strategic technology roadmap and vision, including the foundation and management of Radware’s Security Division, a provider of cyber-attack mitigation solutions. Avi’s views on industry trends and best practices have been featured in articles, white papers, and on the conference speaking circuit and he earned more than 25 patents in the arena of cybersecurity solutions.
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About empow: Empow is a cyber-security startup that introduces a new approach to the security arena.
Irena Damsky
Founder and CEO of Damsky.tech
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About Damsky.tech: CTI Consulting, Training and Research services
Razi Atuar
Co-Founder & CEO of DUKE Robotics
Raziel Atuar Lt. Col. (Res.) is the CEO of Duke Airborne Systems LTD & Duke Robotics Inc. From 1998 to 2004 Raziel Atuar served in IDF Special Forces Unit, received an Excellence Award, planned and Command Covert Operations. His last position was a combat company leader. From 2005 to 2013 Raziel Atuar served as Special Agent at the Israeli Secret Service on complex missions in foreign countries. From 2013 up 2014, Raziel Atuar provided commercial consulting and management services to IMI LTD (Israel Military Industry). During 2014 , Raziel Atuar Joined as Co-Founder and CEO to Duke Airborne Systems LTD From 2016 Raziel Atuar is the CEO, of Duke robotics Inc. Raziel Raziel Atuar holds a B.A in Geography from Haifa University and M.F.A in Film Studies from Tell-Aviv University. Nationality: Israeli
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About DUKE Robotics: Duke robotics develops advanced robotics products for the defense sector.
Yaniv Oz
Co-founder, and CEO of Hermetic Security
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About Hermetic Security: Hermetic brings simplicity to secure credential storage for any app on any device based on its novel vault technology.
Eddy Bobritsky
Co-Founder & CEO of Minerva Labs
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About Minerva Labs: Minerva Labs is cybersecurity company that offers a unique low footprint endpoint prevention platform.
Leon Lerman
Co-Founder & CEO of Cynerio
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About Cynerio: Securing Healthcare IoT
Udi Solomon
Co-Founder and CEO of ShieldIOT
Udi Solomon has over 20 years of industry experience and a proven track record in leading successful security products. During his career, Udi has served as Vice President of Products at ThetaRay and held pivotal roles at Checkpoint, ScanDisk, Alvarion and AGT/3i-MIND. Udi Solomon holds an MBA from the Technion University and a BSc in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University.
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About ShieldIOT: ShieldIOT delivers innovative cybersecurity solutions that protect edge devices from security threats and operational risks.
Roni Zehavi
CEO of CyberSpark
Roni Zehavi is the CEO of CyberSpark, the Industry Initiative, created to advance research and development of cyber solutions in Beer-Sheva. He has more than 10 years of proven success in the entrepreneurial Hi-Tech arena, integrating highly-innovative and multidisciplinary technologies into sellable products. His range of experience includes stewarding ideas through the development process into the marketplace. His most recent company, “To-Be-Education,” is creating a platform upon which teachers and students can upload content that can be transformed into dilemma-based learning games with multiple users, facilitating the develop of global learners’ communities An experienced test pilot from ETPS UK and an Aeronautical Engineer from the Technion, Mr. Zehavi is a well-known expert in aviation professions, including operational, methodological and technological aspects. In 2004 Roni founded Rontal Applications, a leading provider of a 3D based application for simulations and real-time Command & Control systems. Under his leadership, the company has achieved successful results before being acquired by an American corporation.
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About CyberSpark: CyberSpark is the cyber ecosystem in Beer-Sheva.
Henri BenEzra
CEO of SnatchApp
As the CEO of SnatchBot and SnatchApp (Snatch Group Limited), Henri Ben Ezra is responsible for running all facets of the business. Henri has a proven executive management track record and over 20 years of experience driving sales growth in the technology industry. Prior to founding Snatch Group, Henri was Chief Executive Officer at HGT Telecom in France and LT Telecom in the UK, responsible for all the technological activities. Henri also run various businesses within the Energy and Financial sectors focusing on digital technology. Today, Henri’s expectation while leading SnatchBot is to teach technology to speak and understand human language. Natural language understanding and artificial intelligence are some of the most challenging problems to solve in computer science, requiring sophisticated deep-learning algorithms to be trained on massive amounts of data and infrastructure; SnatchBot wants to democratize these deep-learning technologies and scales automatically, negating the need to manage infrastructure.
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About SnatchApp, SnatchBot: SnatchApp is a cross-platform, and end-to-end encrypted instant messaging and calling app.
Erez Lugashi
Founder and CEO of AbiliSense
Erez Lugashi is co-founder and CEO at AbiliSense. Serial tech entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in IT and cybersecurity Founded five tech companies: Frontsec, Secommit, Gamchi, AbiliSense and togedoor. Rich background in both managerial roles as well as hands-on as information security analyst and ICT architect
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About AbiliSense: AbiliSense develops an AI sound recognition technology that empowers IoT devices by smart listening abilities.
Yaniv Avidan
Co – Founder and CEO of MinerEye
Yaniv Avidan has over 15 years of experience in the data analytics domain. He led several business units and corporate innovation teams in business intelligence, machine learning, big data and cyber security analytics. Previously led a data scientists and cyber threat analysts teams at Intel in a corporate scale program and managed an advanced battle field simulation program for the IDF partnering with Lockheed Martin and Cubic Defense Systems. Yaniv holds a B.Sc. in Information Systems Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University in Israel.
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About MinerEye: You can’t protect what you can’t see
Kfir Kimhi
CEO of ITsMine
Kfir Kimhi is the CEO and co-founder of ITsMine, helping companies to protect their data in an effective, affordable and innovative way. Kfir has over 10 years of practical experience at Check Point as a security architect and manager; he possesses vast knowledge of security design and architecture, solution deployment, risk and incident management, as well as public speaking and training. For the last five years, Kfir ran workshops for over 60 Check Point customers from different industries: Finance (Bank and Insurance), Telco’s, Managed Service Providers (MSPs), ITSE, Industrial and more. During these workshops, Kfir led sessions with the organization’s Security, Operation, Network and Architecture teams, including executive levels. In these sessions, Kfir inquired and reviewed all aspects of the existing security solutions, including deployment, design, architecture and daily operational challenges. After understanding with the customer their security state, and guided by best practices and his vast experience, Kfir built a custom-tailored plan for each Customer to assist in attaining an environment more manageable, sustainable, agile, practical and most importantly – secured. Kfir brings his knowledge, experience and connections in the cyber security world to ITsMine to build data protection technology that companies can work with – addressing the pains with practical solutions. Kfir holds B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
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About ITsMine: ITsMine’s Agentless BeyondDLP™ – Welcome to a New Era of Data Protection.
Omer Sharar
CEO of infiniDome
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About Focus Telecom, infiniDome: infiniDome develops GPS protection solutions defending the GPS systems of Drones, vehicles & critical infrastructure from jamming attacks
Uri Brison
CEO of LogDog
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About LogDog: 1 in 4 online accounts gets hacked. LogDog gives you free protection from hackers and identity theft.
Dotan Sagi
CEO of Be-Strategic Solutions (BeST)
Dotan Sagi is a Crisis Management expert with specialized expertise in Aviation Security. He has been active in the Crisis Management and Business Continuity world for over 25 years and has over 20 years’ experience designing crisis management simulations for both government and private sectors. Before founding BeST, Dotan was the head of the El-Al Airlines Security Aviation Security Academy in Israel, where he was in charge of developing a vast complex of crisis management simulations. Dotan is the visionary leader behind BeST, the disruptive technology that has already begun to revolutionize the crisis management world. Dotan’s cutting-edge crisis management platform has been used to transform the crisis management capacities of organizations such as the International Aviation Transportation Authority (IATA), the Aviation Information-Sharing and Analysis Center (A-ISAC), UNYSIS, Poalim Bank, the Italian Supervisory Institute (IVRI) and the Maccabiah.
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About Be-Strategic Solutions (BeST): A unique Crisis Management Simulation Software that helps organizations face potential disasters – better preparing for the “real thing”.
Asaf Barkan
Co-founder,CEO of SkyFormation
Asaf has over 15 years of experience in software security. Prior to SkyFormation Asaf held positions at HP Software of CTO,head of Secure Development Life Cycle (SLDC),R&D manager for shared security and a Distinguished Technologist nomination. Asaf worked as developer at Microsoft Corp for it interactive TV division. Asaf worked also as IT security consultant at IL system security consulting company.
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About SkyFormation: Cloud data security and compliance across enterprise cloud applications
Nadav Tavor
Co-Founder and CEO of Triplecyber
Cyber security & policy expert on information security and cyber defense. Former Cyber security team leader.
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About Triplecyber: TripleCyber‘s solution is external but at the same time provides a comprehensive.
Nadav Tavor
Co-Founder and CEO of Triplecyber
Cyber security & policy expert on information security and cyber defense. Former Cyber security team leader.
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About Triplecyber: TripleCyber‘s solution is external but at the same time provides a comprehensive.
Gal Glikman
Co-Founder, CEO of Uponit
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About Uponit: Uponit is an ad recovery platform for publishers.
Assaf David
CEO of Ceedo
Executive Director, Strategist, Business Development Pro
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About Ceedo: Next Generation Endpoint Security
Michael Snape
CEO & Founder of Retruster Ltd
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About Retruster Ltd: Retruster stops phishing, fraud and ransomware. Leveraging AI and advanced algorithms to keep you protected.
Ori Bach
Chief Executive Officer of TrapX Security
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About TrapX Security: TrapX Security provides deception-based cyber security defense that rapidly detect, deceive, and defeat advanced cyber attacks.
Dror Belleli
Co-Founder & CEO of Securely Ltd
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About Securely Ltd: Secure-ly offers a digital certificate life cycle management solution for SMB and enterprise
Elena Shumieva-Kogan
Founder and CEO of SDT Systems
We design and develop the most ultimate simulators, image generators, training devices and equipment based on cutting edge technologies. SDT Israel is working on the field of high fidelity visual systems and simulators development for civil and military simulation training needs for aviation, marine and land-based applications.
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About SDT Systems: Simulation Visualization Platform
