Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Arad Naveh – General Partner, Benchmark Capital

Arad Naveh has extensive operating and venture capital experience in both Silicon Valley and Israel. Arad's investment interests include Enterprise S/W, Digital Media, Networking and Internet Infrastructure. Prior to joining Benchmark, Arad was a director of business development at Cisco, where he was responsible for investment and M&A activity in Israel. Before Cisco, Arad was the founder and CEO of Class Data, which was acquired by Cisco in May 1998. In the ten years prior to joining Class Data, Arad held executive positions in U.S. corporations. He also served as a staff engineer in the Electronics Research Lab of Israel’s Ministry of Defense. Arad holds a BSc cum laude in Electronics and Computer Engineering.

Udi Meirav – Partner, Stata Ventures

Udi Meirav is a partner with Stata Venture Partners, a Boston based fund focused primarily on early stage investments in technology, energy and life sciences.  Before joining SVP he was CEO of Luminus Devices, Inc., a Boston area company that develops and manufactures high power LEDs and has been selling products into consumer electronics and a wide variety of lighting applications. Prior to Luminus, Udi was a senior engagement manager with Strategic Decisions Group (SDG), an international consulting firm serving major corporations in life sciences, technology, energy and other industries. Earlier in his career Udi held a faculty position as a senior scientist in the Department of Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Udi holds a Ph.D. in Physics from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Moty Mebel – SmartLink

Moty Mebel was acting as the Chief Executive Officer of Mempile-Israel, Ltd., during 2008/9. Prior to Mempile, Mr. Mebel was the co-founder Smart Link, serving as its Chief Executive Officer for 12 years, and has been its Chairman since June 2006. Mr. Mebel has over 30 years of general management, marketing, engineering, and manufacturing experience at high-technology companies. Prior to founding Smart Link, Mr. Mebel was the Vice President of Engineering and Chief Operating Officer of Zoran Corporation. Prior to Zoran, Mr. Mebel held senior engineering management positions at Intel where he nurtured the introduction of the 80X87 products, which modernized the computing industry. Mr. Mebel was an active chairman of Intelinx Ltd. and a Director at Oshadi Drug Administration.

Gadi Maier – Independent

Gadi Maier is a seasoned high-tech executive and entrepreneur. Most recently, he was the president and CEO of FraudSciences Corporation, which was acquired by eBay in 2008. Prior to Fraud Sciences, Mr. Maier was a partner at Pinnacle Ventures and Benchmark Capital. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of Scalent Systems, a datacenter virtualization software company and Currenex, a marketplace for buyers and sellers of foreign currency that was sold to State Street Bank. He also served as the CEO of GetThere Inc., an online travel technology provider, where he led the company’s IPO as well as its sale to Sabre Corporation. Prior to GetThere, he was the CEO of Memco Inc., a company providing Unix OS security that was purchased by Computer Associates. Mr. Maier has also held senior-level management positions at both Cisco and Oracle.

Nathan Shuchami – Chief Executive Officer, Sentrigo

Nathan is Sentrigo's CEO and co-founder. Prior to Sentrigo, Nathan held a senior management position at Blue Security, an anti-spam solution provider, where he was responsible for global sales and business development. He also served as VP Sales Europe at Enigma, an enterprise software provider selling to Fortune Global 1000 companies, and prior to that was responsible for obtaining Enigma's key aerospace customers, such as Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce and GE Aircraft Engines. Nathan holds LLB and LLM degrees.