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Management Team

Chief Regulatory Affairs Officer, VP Operations , Co-Founder
Gil Amid

VP Product & Customer Success
Mike Stellfox

VP People and Culture
Shelly Silverstein

VP Global Sales & Business Development
Udi Jacobi

CEO & Co-founder

Ziv Binyamini

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.

Founder and CTO

Yoav Hollander

Yoav is a world expert and leader in VLSI verification. 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.

Chief Regulatory Affairs Officer, VP Operations , Co-Founder

Gil Amid

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.

VP Research & Development

Ron Grosberg

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.

CFO

Doron Ilan

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.

VP Product & Customer Success

Mike Stellfox

Mike is a world expert in VLSI verification where he spent the past 20+ years first at Verisity and later as a Fellow at Cadence helping transform the semiconductor industry’s approach to verification. Mike has a long history of working with customers across the world to form strategic collaborations enabling them to build best-in-class verification capabilities across their development teams.

VP People and Culture

Shelly Silverstein

Shelly has more than 20 years of managerial experience leading HR departments at high-tech companies such as ICQ, Better Place, and more. In the past 5 years, Shelly led her own HR consulting firm and has been a mentor for executives. Shelly has vast experience working with various organizations and sectors (telecom, AI & Big Data, HLS, Med-Tech among others).

VP Global Sales & Business Development

Udi Jacobi

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.

Team Members

Application Engineering
Gianmarco Macaro

Sourcing & Recruiting
Liran Ivri Pokatinsky

Research & Development
Cynthia Disenfeld

Yonatan Dorman

Research & Development

Mark Kahn

Research & Development

Asaf Merschon

Board of Directors

Alexander Hitzinger

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.

Chairman of the Board

Moshe Gavrielov

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.

General Partner 83North

Gil Goren

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.

CEO & Co-founder

Ziv Binyamini

Founder and CTO

Yoav Hollander

Boaz Schwartz

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.

Advisors

Carl-Peter Forster

Carl-Peter Forster started his career at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant in 1982. After four years there, he joined BMW in Munich, where he became a member of the Executive Board in 1999 as head of global manufacturing. In 2001, he joined the European division of General Motors and became Managing Director of Opel and Vice President of GM Europe. In 2006 he became CEO and President of GM Europe and joined the parent company’s Global Automotive Strategy Board. After leaving General Motors, he became Group CEO at Tata Motors, where he was responsible for the Jaguar and Land Rover brands. In 2013, he joined the boards of Geely Automotive Holdings and Volvo Cars.

Amiram Yehudai

Amiram is an Emeritus Professor and past chair of the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. He also served as Vice President for Academic Affairs of the Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo. He published more than 80 papers, mostly in Software Engineering and Programming Languages, and consulted and presented professional training courses in many companies.

Zohar Zisapel

Zohar is a successful Israeli entrepreneur in Israel’s advanced high-tech industry, sometimes referred to as “the Bill Gates of Israel.” The RAD Group of companies he co-founded with his brother, Yehuda, has been called “the world’s most successful incubator” of telecom-related start-ups by business 2.0 magazine. He is a well known angel and entrepreneur focused in the past on communications and cyber security and today on autonomous vehicles

Eran Sandhaus

Eran recently led Delphi Automotive’s (now Aptiv) Autonomous Driving and Connected Services business unit, overseeing global engineering teams, business staff and wholly owned subsidiaries focused on providing hardware, software, algorithms and cloud services to transform future mobility. Prior to Delphi, Eran was a senior executive for over 20 years in Fortune 500 companies including Qualcomm, Cypress, Texas Instruments and Marvell. During this period Eran led global businesses, operations and M&A focused on server communications, storage, mobile handsets and Internet-of-Things (IoT) for consumer, automotive and industrial applications.

Benny Schnaider

Benny Schnaider is a high-tech serial entrepreneur. Benny co-founded Ravello Systems and served as its President and Chairman. The company has developed an over-the-top cloud services. Since Ravello acquisition by Oracle in 2016, Benny serves as VP SW development for Oracle-Ravello. Previously, Benny co-founded and was the CEO Qumranet (KVM), acquired by Red Hat in 2008. Co-founded P-Cube, acquired by Cisco in 2004. Benny was the CEO and Founder of PentaCom Ltd., acquired by Cisco in 2000. Benny invests and serves as a board member in several startups like: Traffix Systems (acquired by F5 in 2012) and B-Hive (acquired by VMware in 2008), ScyllaDB, Otonomo, Colabo, CathWorks.