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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.

Miki joined Qumranet in the company's early days, and took the role of Product Management and Marketing. Recently she added to her responsibilities, the role of VP for Customer Advocacy.

Miki brings to Qumranet over 25 years of experience in development, R&D and product management in various companies from incumbents and small start-up companies to well establishes companies, including Daisy and 3Com.

Prior to Qumranet, Miki served as Director of Product Management in Crescendo Networks, a company that develops application acceleration devices for the data center. 

Prior to that Crescendo Networks, Miki was the VP R&D of a Net2Wireless, an Israeli start up that develops a solution for Cellular Operators. Miki headed the R&D division which included over 100 engineers and 25 researchers.

Miki holds a B.A degree from the Open University in Israel.

Navin R. Thadani is the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Qumranet. His team is responsible for the overall product strategy and future direction of Qumranet's products. Prior to Qumranet, Navin held several senior management positions at Cisco Systems where he led strategic initiatives around voice over IP and video in the Cable and Connected Home business units. Navin holds an MBA with Honors from The Wharton School of Business, an MS in Economics and Operations Research from Stanford University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pune, India.

With nearly 20 years of high tech sales experience, Bauman joined Qumranet from TriActive, a venture-based pioneer in SaaS for systems management, where he was Executive Vice President in charge of Worldwide Sales and Service Channels.

Prior to joining TriActive, Bauman was an Enterprise Sales Director at Microsoft responsible for sales of the Windows Enterprise Management products in the US and Canada driving sales growth of 20% and recognized System Center’s largest quarters of revenue attainment.  Bauman was also a key stakeholder in driving Microsoft’s acquisitions of AssetMetrix and Softricity to expand the System Center portfolio.

Additionally, he has held sales leadership roles at Altiris (now Symantec) assisting in the successful IPO and growing the company from $10 million to $200 million in revenue and 300% growth in partner-led revenue diversification.

Roni Luxenberg is Qumranet’s VP of Engineering. He is responsible for the delivery of Qumranet’s products.

Prior to Qumranet, Roni served as Manager Engineering for 5 years for Cisco Systems where he was part of the team leading Cisco’s 12000 core router entry into high level services applications.

Prior to Cisco, Roni held various development and management positions at PentaCom Ltd. and VDOnet Corp.