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Shlomo Kramer is co-founder and CEO at Cato Networks. He is a network security expert and a serial entrepreneur. Shlomo co-founded Check Point Software Technologies in 1993, the pioneers of the first commercial firewall, and Imperva in 2002, the innovator of the web application firewall. Shlomo co-founded Cato Networks in 2015, the leader in secure access service edge (SASE). Shlomo has made early investments in highly successful enterprise software companies including Palo Alto Networks, Trusteer, Gong, and numerous others.

Shlomo holds a Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Gur is a co-founder of Cato Networks. Prior to Cato Networks, he was the co-founder and CEO of Incapsula Inc., a Cloud-based web applications security and acceleration company. Before Incapsula, Gur was Director of Product Development, Vice President of Engineering and Vice President of Products at Imperva, a web application security and data security company.

Gur holds a BSc in Computer Science from Tel Aviv College.

Steven is a general partner at U.S. Venture Partners with over 30 years of venture capital experience. He has led numerous investments which included 18 IPOs and several acquisitions. He currently serves on the boards of Active‐Semi, Appthority, Box (NYSE: BOX), Cato Networks, Electric Cloud, Exablox, Inside Sales (observer), Kaiam, Megapath, Prevoty, Quantifind, Quixey, Smartling, Xirrus and ZEFR. Steven is the former executive board member and Treasurer of the National Venture Capital Association. He also serves on the boards of the WAVC, the World Affairs Council, the Stanford GSB Venture Fund and DAPER Investment Fund. Steven holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Theresia Gouw is a founding partner at Acrew Capital. In 2014, she co-founded Aspect Ventures. Prior to Aspect, Theresia was a Managing General Partner at Accel.

Theresia has been fortunate to work with many successful companies through IPOs or acquisitions including: Forescout (FSCT), Imperva (IMPV), Trulia (TRLA), Hotel Tonight (Airbnb), Astro (Slack: WORK), LearnVest (Northwestern Mutual), Jasper Designs (CDNS) and Kosmix (WMT).

As an entrepreneur, Theresia was founding VP of Business Development and Sales at Release Software, a venture-backed company that provided SaaS to enable digital rights management and payment technologies for the software industry. Earlier, she worked at Bain & Company and as product manager at Silicon Graphics.
Theresia led early investments in Cato Networks, Deserve, Exabeam, The Muse, Crew, ShieldX Networks and PredictHQ.

Theresia is a first-generation immigrant and a passionate supporter of educational causes and increasing diversity in the tech industry. Theresia was named to Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women list, has been recognized 8 times on the Forbes Midas List, including 2019, was named one of the 40 most influential minds in tech by Time Magazine, as well as being named to the Carnegie Corporation’s annual Distinguished Immigrants list.

Jerry joined Greylock in 2013 as an investor and currently sits on the Board of Docker, Awake Networks, Attic Labs, Gladly, Rhumbix, and is a board observer on Cloudera. He invests in entrepreneurs building new enterprise SaaS applications and in all aspects of cloud, data, and application infrastructure. Prior to joining Greylock, Jerry was Vice President of Cloud and Application Services at VMware where he was part of the executive team that scaled the company from 400 to over 15,000 employees and $5B in revenue. During his ten years at VMware, Jerry launched dozens of products including several “1.0” releases and started two new business units for VMware including the Cloud Application Platform and the Enterprise Desktop business units.

Jerry received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was a George F. Baker Scholar.

Yoni Cheifetz, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, brings with him more than 15 years of operating experience. At heart he’s an entrepreneur, someone who’s served a variety of roles—co-founder, CEO, chairman, investor—for nearly a dozen software companies, including Demantra (acquired by Oracle), Agentics (acquired by Mercado), and Traiana (acquired by ICAP).

Prior to his career as an entrepreneur, Yoni earned a BSc in applied mathematics from Tel-Aviv University and an MSc in applied mathematics and computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Later, he ran product management and business development for Click Software. At Lightspeed, he’s filled out his portfolio with investments in a variety of sectors, including Internet, digital media, mobile, communications, software, semiconductors, and cleantech.

Ravi Mhatre is a founding partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and plays a global leadership role at the firm today. He has over 25 years of venture capital experience. He has invested broadly in technology over 3 decades and has partnered with multiple founders to shepherd their companies from early stage to IPO/exit. Ravi’s deep expertise has led him to partner with many transformative companies over the years including Anduril, AppDynamics, Guardant, MuleSoft, Natera, Nutanix, Offchain Labs, Rubrik, ThoughtSpot, Zscaler, and many others.

Mr. Ronen Faier is serving as Chief Financial Officer of SolarEdge Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: SEDG, S&P500 company), an energy management company since January 2011. Previously, Mr. Faier has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Modu Ltd. from March 2007 through December 2010 and as the Chief Financial Officer of msystems Ltd., which was acquired by SanDisk Corp. (a Western Digital Corp. (Nasdaq: WDC) company).

Mr. Faier serves on the board of directors of Monday.com (Nasdaq: MNDY) since June 2021, as well as on the board of directors of Kaltura Inc. (Nasdaq: KLTR) since March 2021. Mr. Faier holds a B.A. in accounting and economics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University and is a licensed certified public accountant. Mr. Faier is selected to serve on our board of directors because of his extensive financial and public company experience.

Eyal is chairman of Waldo Holdings and has more than 30 years of executive, product management, engineering and investment experience. He co-founded Mellanox Technologies in 1999 and led the global semiconductor maker as CEO, president and chairman for more than twenty years. He took the company public in 2007 and completed its sale to NVIDIA for $7 billion in 2020. Prior to Mellanox, Eyal co-founded Galileo Technology, a semiconductor company that went public in 2000 and was acquired by Marvell Technology Group, Ltd. in 2001 for $2.7B. He currently serves on the board of directors of several private and public companies. Eyal holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. In 2024 Eyal received the Israel Prize for Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation; the Israel Prize is the country’s highest and most prestigious civilian honor.

Gili Iohan is a general partner at ION Crossover Partners. Prior to ION, Gili spent two decades as a finance manager and CFO of leading Israeli technology companies such as M-Systems, SolarEdge, and Varonis. At Varonis, Gili served as a CFO since its inception until 2017. During her twelve-year tenure, she was responsible for finance, accounting, operations, and HR, and led Varonis through a successful IPO on the Nasdaq in 2014. She was also a CFO at SolarEdge Technologies, a smart energy company, from 2006-2010. Prior to that, she was a partner at NextAge Ltd. for six years and served as a CFO and strategic financial consultant for several companies. Prior to her tenure at NextAge, Gili held positions at KPMG. She serves on the board of directors of Varonis (VRNS), Monday.com (MNDY) and Fiverr (FVRR). Gili received a B.A. in Economics and Accounting and an MBA from Tel-Aviv University.