About Us

After serving as Morphisec’s CFO & COO for 3 years, Ron assumed the role of CEO. Prior to joining Morphisec, Ron served as Chief Financial Officer at IntSights (acquired by Rapid7) where he oversaw global finance, legal, HR, and planning operations. Ron brings over 15 years of leadership experience at SaaS companies. He was VP of Finance & Operations at Zooz (acquired by PayU), and has held various financial and operations roles at Cloudshare, Clarizen, and Ernst & Young, where he specialized in technology IPOs and M&A. In addition, Ron has held multiple advisory roles at early stage tech startups.

Richard is a seasoned business executive with over two decades of experience leading global enterprise security sales teams. Prior to Morphisec, Richard was a key driver in shaping and steering the sales functions of high-growth cybersecurity startups, contributing significantly to multiple successful exits, including: Talon, XMCyber, IntSights, and Stonesoft. Richard holds an MBA from Schiller International University in Germany, and a bachelor’s degree in Biology and Chemistry from Oklahoma City University.

Morphisec CTO Michael Gorelik leads the malware research operation and sets technology strategy. He has extensive experience in the software industry and leading diverse cybersecurity software development projects. Prior to Morphisec, Michael was VP of R&D at MotionLogic GmbH, and previously served in senior leadership positions at Deutsche Telekom Labs. Michael has extensive experience as a red teamer, reverse engineer, and contributor to the MITRE CVE database. He has worked extensively with the FBI and US Department of Homeland Security on countering global cybercrime. Michael is a noted speaker, having presented at multiple industry conferences, such as SANS, BSides, and RSA. Michael holds Bsc and Msc degrees from the Computer Science department at Ben-Gurion University, focusing on synchronization in different OS architectures. He also jointly holds seven patents in the IT space.

Brad LaPorte is a seasoned cybersecurity expert and former military officer specializing in cybersecurity and military intelligence for the United States military and allied forces. With a distinguished career at Gartner as a top-rated research analyst, Brad was instrumental in establishing key industry categories such as Attack Surface Management (ASM), Extended Detection & Response (XDR), Digital Risk Protection (DRP), and the foundational elements of Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). His forward-thinking approach led to the inception of Secureworks’ MDR service and the EDR product Red Cloak—industry firsts. At IBM, he spearheaded the creation of the Endpoint Security Portfolio, as well as MDR, Vulnerability Management, Threat Intelligence, and Managed SIEM offerings, further solidifying his reputation as a visionary in cybersecurity solutions years ahead of its time.

As Morphisec’s VP Operations and General Counsel, Nufar leads and oversees the company’s sales operations, legal, compliance, information security, and IT.

Prior to joining Morphisec, she worked as a commercial and corporate attorney at top Israeli law firm Naschitz, Brandes, Amir & Co., serving as a trusted legal advisor to multiple venture capital funds and hi-tech companies, including some of the leading cybersecurity companies in Israel. Nufar also has vast experience in mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws—LL.B. (magna cum laude) from Tel Aviv University, where she also served as a research team lead and teaching assistant in corporate law.

Alexei Rubinstein brings over 15 years of Leadership and Executive experience in Cybersecurity and Intelligence Solutions Engineering, Customer Success and Sales, leading global solution and sales engineering organizations spanning over various areas of expertise from Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response, Lawful Interception, SIGINT and Offensive Security.

Previously, Mr. Rubinstein worked at IntSights as the Vice President of Sales Engineering, leading to the successful acquisition of IntSights by Rapid7, then moved on to head the Rapid7 global Sales Engineering Specialists organization, before moving to become the VP of Sales Engineering at XM Cyber.

Mr. Rubinstein holds a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering and Communication Systems from Shenkar College of Engineering and Arts and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

After serving as Morphisec’s Global HRBP for 5 years, Tali assumed the role of Vice President of HR.

Prior to joining Morphisec, Tali served as HR & Lab Operations Executive at the Cyber Security Research Center at Ben-Gurion University where she oversaw global HR Operations and Compliance.

Tali brings years of experience with major corporations in team management, managing Human Resource strategies that support business objectives.

She holds an MBA specialization in Organizational Behavior and a bachelor’s degree in human resources management from Ben Gurion University where she also served as a guest lecturer at the Career Development Internship Program.

Oded is an accomplished R&D professional with over 20 years of experience spanning startups and large multidisciplinary corporations.
He has spent nearly six years as a leader in our R&D department, before stepping into his current role as VP of R&D.

Oded brings a visionary leadership, blending professionalism with a customer-centric approach to drive innovative, cutting-edge solutions.

He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science and MBA in Business Management, both from Ben-Gurion University.

Tomer Hevlin is a seasoned cybersecurity product leader with 15+ years of experience. As VP of Products at Morphisec, he drives product strategy for their cutting-edge endpoint security platform. he previously held key roles at Votiro and Microsoft, specializing in EDR, threat prevention, and file security. Tomer Hevlin is a passionate product innovator with a proven track record of success.

Itamar Sokolish is a finance leader with extensive experience in driving financial strategy and operational excellence within the technology and technology sectors. As VP of Finance at Morphisec, he oversees financial planning, reporting, and analysis to support the company’s growth and innovation.

With a strong background in financial leadership roles, Itamar excels in optimizing resources, managing budgets, and aligning financial operations with strategic goals. His expertise enables him to build robust financial frameworks that drive sustainable success

Yoav has over twenty years of experience in digital media, content services, telecom value-added services as well as mission critical enterprise software including C5I and Cyber Security. Yoav led investments in several of JVP’s companies including ThetaRay, CyActive, Morphisec, Coro.Net, ScadaFence, SDO and AnyClip Media. Exits include CyActive (acquired by Paypal, 04/2015). Prior to joining JVP, Yoav headed venture capital consulting business, Altus Media, and ahead of that, spent five years as General Manager/COO and CMO of Exent Technologies leading its strategy, business and operations in the space of digital distribution, working with industry leaders such as Verizon, Comcast, Intel, CBS, Time Warner, France Telecom and others. Prior to this, Yoav held executive roles with TeleKnowledge, an innovator in business support systems, helping develop telecom value-added services and digital media strategies for Telefonica, Yahoo, Listen.com, StarMedia and others. Yoav spent six years in the Israeli Air Force, managing mission critical development projects including in the “enterprise” control, command & security space, and is a decorated officer. Yoav holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Computer Science) from Tel-Aviv University, as well as an Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management’s international program.

Rémi Prunier is VC at Orange Digital Ventures, the €150M corporate venture fund of Orange Group. In this role, he is involved with several companies’ Board of Directors (BoD), primarily from the Cybersecurity and Enterprise space.

With a strong B2B business and management background, Rémi is passionate about disruptive models, digital transformation and innovation, always in search of new investment opportunities in Cybersecurity, AI & Enterprise software solutions.

Rémi holds a masters’ degree from CentraleSupelec Engineer School and an executive advanced master from ESSEC Management School.

Morphisec co-founder Ronen Yehoshua has over 20 years of technology management and venture capital experience. Prior to Morphisec, Ronen was a partner at Cedar Fund, an international venture capital firm with over $325M under management. In this strategic, hands-on role, he led investments and resided on the boards of several companies in seed and growth stage. Before that, Ronen held key leadership positions in managing, investing, and collaborating with start-up companies and cutting-edge innovations in the software and telecom industries, such as business and technology consultant to the Hutchison Whampoa group, Investment Director at Partner FutureCom, Director of Business Development and Project Manager at ECI Telecom.

Steve Bennett is a board member, angel investor and CEO advisor with a long track record of delivering strong results for customers, partners, employees, and shareholders. His operating business career spans stints at GE, Intuit and Symantec. His board experience spans a wide range of public companies including Intuit, Sun Microsystems, Qualcomm, American Airlines, and Symantec. Bennett graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor’s degree in finance and real estate. He is married to Marsha Jordan his wife of 30 years and they live in the Bay Area.

Mr. Roi Yosef , a C.P.A. and Attorney at Law, has spent 7 years advising transactions and investments from business, legal and financial perspectives across a broad spectrum of industries.

Mr. Yosef is part of JVP investment team, the major investor in Morphisec, where he is focused on new early to mid-stage investments and providing direction and advice to the Fund’s cyber portfolio companies.

Prior to JVP, Mr. Yosef was previously a Strategy and Transaction Senior consultant at Earnst &Young and worked at Goldfarb Seligman law firm, where he led due diligence to M&A and investment transactions and advised public companies on high-profile transactions.

Mr. Yosef holds a double major in Law and Accounting from the Hebrew University.

Professor Yuval Elovici is the Director of the Telekom Innovation Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), head of the BGU Cyber Security Research Center, Research Director of iTrust at Singapore University of Technology and Design, and Professor in the Department of Information Systems Engineering at BGU. Academically, Elovici is the founder of Telekom Innovation Laboratories at BGU, co-founder of BGU’s Cyber Security Research Center, and co-initiator of BGU’s M.Sc. Cyber Security study track. He is also the co-founder of Morphisec, a Spinoff tech company of BGU. A senior advisor to hi-tech and telecom companies as well as large governmental agencies in the area of cyber security and data analytics, helps venture capitals to perform due diligence.

Rachael McCarthy is a senior software executive and attorney with over 25 years of experience building and scaling high growth technology companies, positioning them for continued growth or liquidity thru sale or IPO.

Most recently CFO of CloudLock Inc. (acquired by Cisco in 2016), Ms. McCarthy has held various senior management roles, including Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and Vice President of Business Development and also serves as a strategic business advisor to tech companies.

Recipient of the 2016 Boston Business Journal CFO of the Year Award, Ms. McCarthy’s experience prior to CloudLock includes serving as CFO & VP of Corporate Development of Axeda Corp (acquired by PTC in 2014), strategic business advisor to Recombinant Data Corp (acquired by Deloitte in 2012, now ConvergeHealth by Deloitte), General Counsel of Unica Corp (IPO 2005, acquired by IBM in 2010), business advisor & counsel to Authoria (Peopleclick Authoria as of 2010), CFO of RealityWave (acquired by Aveva 2005), VP of Finance of Interlynx (acquired by ProAct in 2000), and General Counsel & VP of Business Development of Restrac/Webhire (IPO 1996 part of Kenexa/IBM in 2006).

Ms. McCarthy offers CFO, general counsel, and business advisory services, including board and board of advisor representation to growing software/SaaS companies.

Karel is a seasoned executive and investor with strong IT background, with experience in top management positions. Over the past decade, he helped to grow one of the most successful AV companies AVG Technologies, now publicly listed at NYSE (NYSE:AVGT). As an acting CEO and CTO, he proved not only his technical but also managerial and business skills. After leaving AVG, Karel has been primarily active as an investor and advisor. In this role, he was involved with several companies’ Board of Directors (BoD), primarily from the IT security space, including Cognitive Security (acquired by Cisco – NASDAQ:CSCO). Karel holds a doctorate and masters’ degree in computer science from the Brno University of Technology, Czech republic. Karel was awarded a Kauffman Fellowship by the Palo Alto based Society of Kauffman Fellows.