Team - Foretellix

Alex Hitzinger

CEO & Co-Founder

Alex started his automotive career at Toyota Motorsport before joining Cosworth and Red Bull Technology. Hitzinger then joined Porsche as Technical Director and Chief Engineer of Porsche 919, which won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2015. He spent three years at Apple as Head of Product Design for Project Titan. Most recently, Hitzinger served as Senior Vice President of Autonomous Driving at VW Group and Member of the Executive Board VWN, where he was involved in developing the ID Buzz. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of Artemis GmbH, where he was the Chief Architect of the revolutionary new vehicle concept for next-generation autonomous mobility for their flagship-product Audi Landjet.

Moshe Gavrielov

Chairman of the Board

Moshe Gavrielov last served as the President and CEO of Xilinx from 2008-2018, during which the company delivered three successive generations of technology leadership. These yielded revenue growth to over $2.5B, significantly increased profitability, and market share expansion. As a result market capitalization quadrupled during his tenure and approached $20B. Prior to that Moshe was the CEO of Verisity, delivered revenue growth to over $70M while leading its successful IPO in 2001 and led its sale to Cadence for $315M in 2005. Prior to Verisity, Moshe served in numerous executive management roles in LSI Logic, Digital Equipment and National Semiconductor.

Boaz Schwartz

Chairman of the Board

Boaz Schwartz is a seasoned finance professional and a tech investor. Dr. Schwartz has founded and managed Deutsche Bank Israel for 24 years and until December 2020. Following his retirement from Deutsche Bank, Boaz has become an active tech investor in both early and late-stage companies. Dr. Schwartz is a board member of IDC Herzliya, iArgento Ltd and the vice-Chairman of Zabar Solar Ltd. He earned a Ph.D in Finance from the University of Chicago; MBA with Distinction from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; MSc and BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tel Aviv.

Gil Goren

CEO & Co-Founder

Gil Goren joined 83North in 2016, after more than a decade at EMC in a variety of roles in Boston and Tel Aviv. At his last role as SVP & Managing Partner at EMC Ventures he managed strategic partnerships Investments and M&A internationally. Prior investments include Anobit (acquired by Apple), XtremIO & ScaleIO (both acquired by EMC), Cyvera & Secdo (both acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Adallom (acquired by Microsoft), CloudEndure (acquired by Amazon) Jfrog, RedisLabs, Guardicore and VastData among others. Currently on the boards of VDOO, Foretellix, and IBEX. He has B.SC in Electrical Engineering from the Technion and MBA from Boston University.

Ziv Binyamini

CEO & Co-Founder

Ziv is a verification visionary and a passionate leader. Previously, Ziv served as Corporate VP at Cadence running the simulation and verification business. Through his career at Cadence, Verisity and Intel, Ziv led the development of verification businesses including chip simulation and Verification IP, industry first Coverage Driven Verification solutions and test bench products including Specman for chip verification and Perspec for SoC HW/SW verification.

Yoav Hollander

CTO & Founder

Yoav is a world expert and leader in complex systems expert verification and validation. he Invented the “e” verification language and related methodology (later followed by the UVM methodology). Yoav founded Verisity to deliver “e” and related tools. Verisity was acquired by Cadence Design Systems. In the last few years, Yoav has been researching complex-system verification.

Gil Amid

Chief Regulatory Affairs Officer, VP Operations & Co-founder

Gil is a former Vice President of Intel Corp. Gil has 30 years of experience working for Intel , in which he led the development of EDA and CAD tools in all design domains as well as leading VLSI design projects. In his recent years he was in charge of (among others) the verification tools development organization within Intel.

Sagar Behere

VP Safety

Sagar has over a decade of experience developing autonomous driving systems as an Architect, Integrator, and leader in Systems/Safety Engineering and Validation. Prior to Foretellix, Sagar held critical leadership positions at Aurora, Toyota Research Institute, and Zoox. He has also worked on Safety and Automated Driving research together with OEMs like Volvo Car Corporation and Scania. Sagar holds a Ph.D. in architecture for autonomous driving from KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

Vicky Revzin

HR & Global Employee Operations Director

Vicky Revzin – HR & Global Employee Operations Director

Ron Grossberg

VP R&D

Ron is an experienced manager and a passionate software engineer with more than 20 years of experience. Previously Ron managed a group in Algotec (now a Philips subsidiary), fully in charge of the development of complex medical imaging software used by radiologists in thousands of hospitals around the globe. Ron started his way in the IDF programming academy and technological units.

Mike Stellfox

VP product & Customer Success

Mike is a world expert in advanced verification methodologies and solutions. He has spent more than twenty-five years working with customers around the world on solutions to address their verification challenges in a wide range of industries from Automotive and Autonomous Transport, to Mobile and Hyperscale Computing, to Aerospace and Defense. Before joining Foretellix, Mike was a Fellow at Cadence where he helped transform the semiconductor industry’s approach to verification, based on the automated verification solutions he helped pioneer at Verisity in the early 2000s. Mike started his career at IBM as a VLSI Chip Designer.

Udi Jacobi

VP Global Sales & Business Development

Udi has over 20 years of commercial leadership experience, managing and growing businesses throughout the USA, Europe, and APAC.His experience spans a broad range of industries and disciplines, including Automotive, New Media, and Digital Transformation.Prior to joining Foretellix, Udi founded and successfully grew Brightcom Media into a multi-million-dollar profitable business.

Doron Ilan

CFO

Doron is an experienced CFO with over 20 years in corporate finance, in various private and public companies. As the CFO of 012 Smile Telecom [Nasdaq: BCOM], he led the company’s successful NASDAQ IPO, and later, as the CFO of SuperCom [SPCB] executed an M&A process and a public offering on NASDAQ. In recent years he was the CFO of Xfone, an Israeli telecom provider.

Sharon Rosenberg

Solution Architect & Chief Methodologist

Sharon has over two decades of experience in the verification and validation of highly complex systems. He is the author of two landmark verification & validation textbooks and a key contributor to ASAM OpenSCENARIO® 2.0.

Gil Reiter

VP Marketing

Gil has over 20 years of experience driving strategy, marketing, and product development of cutting-edge technology at global organizations and startup companies in the automotive, wireless, and IoT space. He was VP of product management and marketing at SafeRide Technologies (acquired by Questar Auto Technologies) and the head of autonomous driving product management at Aptiv. Gil also served in multiple marketing, strategy, and product leadership roles at Texas Instruments and Marvell Semiconductors.

Our team

Alex Hitzinger

Moshe Gavrielov

Boaz Schwartz

Gil Goren

Ziv Binyamini

Yoav Hollander

Ziv Binyamini

Yoav Hollander

Gil Amid

Sagar Behere

Vicky Revzin

Ron Grosberg

Mike Stellfox

Udi Jacobi

Doron Ilan

Sharon Rosenberg

Gil Reiter

Ohad Schwarzberg

Mark Mohr

Carl-Peter Forster

Eran Sandhaus

Alex Hitzinger

Benny Schnaider

Gianmarco Macaro

Mathilde Brizon

Adi Rubin

Bindesh Patel

Iulia Iuganu

Urs Borrmann

Achyutha Kothapalli

Uri Mor

Roie Salame

Alon Sheader

Masha Bobritski

Zhaoyong Wu

Bill Cole

Michal Simantov

Yonatan Dorman

Alon Shoval

Dmitry Pidan

Jan Fiala

Zoya Korovin

Asaf Mershon

Cynthia Disenfeld

Daniel Meltz

Karen Germond

Dan Atzmon

Mark Kahn

Eran Frieman

Dana Oshri

Robert Scholtz

Yuval Traitelis

Yael Feldman

Stuart Hu

Dima Stikut

Alex Vernik

Paul Scott

Liran Ivri Pokatinsky

Ben Mutzary

Erez Cohen

Sebastian Klaas

Yaron Kashai

Sharon Porat

Inna Frenkel

Yoav Ben Dov

Yaniv Dovev

Yoav Arnon

Jeni Osternik

Eran Rubinstein

Magal Dror

Ronen Hadar

Sapir Ben Moshe

Ehud Zemel

Tal Tabakman

Avi Bab-Dinitz

Guy Peer

Efrat Gavish

Itay Keinan

Tal Saar