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Benny Schnaider is Qumranet's CEO and a Co-Founder. Over the past 20 years, Benny has held senior management, engineering and strategic consulting roles at many Silicon-Valley based companies including Cisco Systems, Amdahl/Fujitsu, Hitachi, IDT, Sun Microsystems and 3Com.

Benny was CEO of PentaCom Ltd. a leading provider of products implementing Spatial Reuse Protocol (SRP) for IP based metropolitan networks which was acquired by Cisco in 2000. Benny led large Cisco engineering groups that developed high-end routing and digital video products.

Benny also co-founded and served on the Board of Directors for P-Cube, a developer of IP service control platforms, which was also acquired by Cisco in 2004. Benny also developed and sold HW/SW co-simulation tools to leading system companies.

Benny holds a Masters degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University, and a BS in Computer Engineering from the Technion (Israel Institute of technology).

Rami Tamir is Qumranet's President and a Co-Founder. He is also responsible for Qumranet's U.S. operations. Rami plays a major role in setting Qumranet's overall product strategy and direction.

Prior to co-founding Qumranet, Rami served as Director of Engineering for 6 years for Cisco Systems Israel where he was in charge of leading Cisco's 12000 core router entry into high level services applications.

Rami was a co-founder and head of Software for PentaCom Ltd., with Benny Schnaider, Qumranet's CEO, which was acquired by Cisco in 2000. PentaCom Ltd was a leading provider of products implementing Spatial Reuse Protocol (SRP) for IP based metropolitan networks that doubled bandwidth efficiency.

Prior to PentaCom, Rami held various management positions at VDOnet Corp., an Internet video streaming and video-conferencing technology company in Israel.

Rami holds a BSEE/CS in Electrical Engineering from Israel's Technion University and an MBA from both Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University.

Moshe Bar is Qumranet's Chief Technology Officer and a Co-Founder.

Prior to founding Qumranet, Moshe was the CTO and a Co-Founder of XenSource, a leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen™ hypervisor. At XenSource Moshe led technology strategy, as well as research, development and engineering.

Prior to XenSource, Moshe co-founded Qlusters, Inc., a leading provider of Open Source data center provisioning and management software for physical and virtual environments. At Qlusters Moshe served as CTO, and led technology and product strategy. Prior to Qlusters, Moshe was a VP of Application Integration Products at Baan.

Moshe is the author of three books on Linux and open source development tools.

He is a one of the founders of Democritos, the Italian national institute for nuclear simulation. Moshe is a frequent speaker and lecturer and has taught computer science at Tel Aviv University. He also served as an advisor to the UN Atomic Agency.

Giora Yaron is Qumranet's Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder. Giora brings over three decades of technology and operational leadership and entrepreneurial success to Qumranet.

As Chairman of the Board of Mercury Interactive, Giora oversaw the sale of the company to Hewlett-Packard in 2006. He also co-founded P-Cube and PentaCom (sold to Cisco), and Comsys Signal Processing Ltd. (sold to Conexant).

His current entrepreneurial ventures include Qumranet, ExaNet, Itamar Medical Ltd. and Prolify.

From 1992-1995, Giora served as the President of Indigo NV, and led the company to a NASDAQ IPO which surpassed $1 billion in market capitalization. Prior to joining Indigo, he served as a corporate Vice President at National Semiconductor with worldwide responsibility for its microprocessor business.

Giora serves on the Board of Governors and the Executive committee of the Hebrew University and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Yissum, the entity responsible for technology transfers on behalf of the Hebrew University.

Giora holds a Ph.D. in Device Physics from the Hebrew University. He has published over twenty scientific papers and holds six patents.

Fred Van Den Bosch has been CEO and President of Silicon Valley-based PANTA Systems since 2004.

In addition, he is currently a board member of EverGrid Software.

Prior to joining PANTA, Fred served as CTO, Executive Vice President Advanced Technology and Board Director of VERITAS Software (now Symantec). During his 13 years tenure at VERITAS, he built the company's Product Operations organization from 15 to 1500 people.

As early as 1992, he also initiated the VERITAS activities in India and grew these into a wholly owned subsidiary with 800 people. From 1971 to 1990, Fred served in various positions with Philips Information Systems in the Netherlands, eventually as manager of all Computer Systems R&D activities.

He started his career in the early 1970s at the Stanford Research Institute and has an M.S. in Applied Mathematics.

Shmil Levy is a Partner with Sequoia Capital Israel and focuses on semiconductor, software and systems investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2000, he was the President of Lucent Technologies' Internetworking Systems Division.

Shmil joined Lucent following Lucent's acquisition of Lannet where he served as the President and CEO.

Shmil joined Lannet as VP for R&D. Shmil also served as VP of Madge Networks.

Before joining Lannet, Shmil held senior technical positions at IAI, Boeing and Astronautics in the area of Avionic Systems. Shmil has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Ben Gorion University.

Vab Goel is a General Partner with Norwest Venture Partners. Vab focuses his efforts on systems, services and Internet investments.

He serves on the boards of LifeSize Communications, Mobile2win, Qumranet and Virtela Communications, and has worked closely with Extreme Networks.

Other investments include C2C Pte. Ltd., Sonoa Systems, Veveo and Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola ).

Before joining NVP, Vab served Qwest as vice president of emerging technologies, a group he founded. In that position, he was responsible for identifying new networking technologies.

He also fostered strategic relationships with start-up companies such as Qtera, Corvis, Sonus Networks, Redback Networks, Siara Systems, Juniper Networks, and Extreme Networks.

Earlier, as vice president of IP network engineering and advanced technology, he created and implemented the "Qwest IP Network and Data Center Strategy", designed to enable seamless services with open standards and a strong customer focus.

Prior to joining Qwest, Vab worked at Sprint, where he was a principal architect for the Sprint Internet backbone and contributed to the company's IP and optical network strategy.

He created the optical Network Strategy which drove the worlds first IP over Sonet and the first IP over DWDM network.

He played a key role in the Global One IP network, a venture partnership among France Telecom, Sprint, and Deutsche Telecom. Vab earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.