I was born in California in 1977, spent of most of childhood in Israel and my high school years in Italy. I currently live in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

I am the CEO and co-founder of Delver, a stealth-mode startup (backed by our friends at Carmel Ventures) developing a new search engine category. No Less.

Until recently, I served as a Director of Product Management in McAfee, which in Oct. 2006 acquired my previous startup, Onigma. Onigma (co-founded with Amir Sadeh and Ishay Green) developed highly innovative host-based Data Loss Prevention solutions. The acquisition party was a blast

The original idea behind starting Onigma was to sell it and use the money to finance my first feature film. The first part of the plan worked out extremely well, yet then Semingo came along and I couldn’t resist ‘just one more startup’. So, after we drive Semingo to the great success it deserves (it is the most exciting project I ever worked on, and the team is stronger than one could ever wish for), I plan to return to my movie writing and directing plans.

Before all that startup extravaganza, I wrote a very funny Israeli sitcom (together with my highly talented comedian friend Nadav Abekasis) yet unfortunately, none of the local TV producers we met laughed as much as we did. It’s now safely stored in my home computer under the folder ‘the funniest comedy no one will ever see because we couldn’t convince anyone to spend money on our vision’. Losers

Prior to that, I worked with American-Israeli film director Avi Nesher on various projects, the most interesting one being ‘Turn Left at the End of the World’, a major success in Israel. That was a cool project, and I might post about it at some point in time.

I graduated cum-laude from Tel-Aviv University with a double-BA in Film Studies and Computer Sciences, yet the real cool experiences took place during my high school years in the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy. If you are reading this blog and you are about 15 years old, stop everything you do and apply for a scholarship at the UWC. It was the most defining experience of my life.

In my early twenties I had much more important things to do than acting busy as Delver’s CEO. I traveled through Asia for almost a year, climbed a few interesting 6,000m mountain peaks in Peru and generally kept myself busy trying to get killed in a wide variety of extreme sports and stupid activities (tips for travelers, #12: Never drive at 2am in Goa, India, with more than 3 people on your bike)

And so on, and so forth…

Let the fun begin.