Shlomo Kramer

President and CEO

In 2008, Shlomo Kramer was named CEO of the year by SC Magazine. In 2006, Kramer was selected by Network World magazine as one of 20 luminaries who changed the network industry.

Prior to founding Imperva, Kramer co-founded Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. in 1993. At Check Point, he served in various executive roles through 1998 and as a member of the board of directors through 2003. While at Check Point, Kramer played a key role in defining and creating several category-defining products and solutions, including FireWall-1, VPN-1, FloodGate-1, Check Point's OPSEC alliance, and Check Point's security appliance program.

Kramer has participated as an early investor and board member in a number of security and enterprise software companies including Palo Alto Networks, Trusteer, Confidela, and Worklight. Kramer received a Masters degree in Computer Science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.

Amichai Shulman

CTO

Amichai Shulman is Co-Founder and CTO of Imperva, where he heads the Application Defense Center (ADC), Imperva's internationally recognized research organization focused on security and compliance. Shulman regularly lectures at trade conferences and delivers monthly eSeminars. The press draws on Shulman's expertise to comment on breaking news, including security breaches, mitigation techniques, and related technologies. Under his direction, the ADC has been credited with the discovery of serious vulnerabilities in commercial Web application and database products, including Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. Prior to Imperva, Shulman was founder and CTO of Edvice Security Services Ltd., a consulting group that provided application and database security services to major financial institutions, including Web and database penetration testing and security strategy, design and implementation. Shulman served in the Israel Defense Forces, where he led a team that identified new computer attack and defense techniques. He has B.Sc and Masters Degrees in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Merav Davidson

SVP, Business Operations

Merav Davidson brings over 17 years of operational and leadership experience to Imperva. She joins Imperva from her consultancy practice where she provided Marketing, Operations and SaaS team leadership to a portfolio of clients. Previously, Davison held multiple executive leadership positions at Mercury Interactive - most notably serving as Vice President, Mercury Managed Services (MMS) – Serving as General Manager of Mercury’s rapidly growing SaaS business. Under her leadership revenue grew during this period to $70m with strong operating profit. Other roles include, Vice President, Business Operations and Director, Application Performance Management R&D. Davidson holds a BSC in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University.

Mark Kraynak

VP, WW Marketing

A 14 year veteran of the information security industry, Mark Kraynak served as senior director of strategic marketing where he was responsible for evangelizing Imperva’s application data security solutions. Kraynak represents Imperva on industry-wide groups such as the Web Application Firewall Evaluation Criteria project of the WASC and the WAF vendors’ consortium within ICSA. Prior to Imperva he led product marketing at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., and CacheFlow (now BlueCoat Systems). He has also provided technology architecture consulting for Fortune 500 clients with Ernst & Young’s Center for Technology Enablement. Kraynak holds a BSC in Electrical Engineering and English from Duke University, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Literature from American University

Sunil Nagdev

VP, WW Services

Sunil Nagdev provides Imperva with 17+ years experience building, developing, and managing world-class training, support, and services organizations. He joined Imperva from Tablus, Inc (acquired by EMC), where he was Vice President of Worldwide Professional Services and Technical Support. Prior to Tablus, Nagdev held multiple executive leadership positions for Verity Inc. which was acquired by Autonomy Group. While Senior Vice President of Worldwide Professional Services and Technical Support at Autonomy, he delivered $30 M in consulting services while leading technical support efforts for 3,000+ customers and generating over $48 M in maintenance revenue. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Chico State University.

Gur Shatz

VP, Products

Gur Shatz brings more than 15 years of product engineering experience to his role as head of product development, management, and architecture at Imperva. An employee of the company since its inception, he held several positions including Director of Product Development, Manager and Architect of the SecureSphere Gateway Group and most recently Vice President of Engineering

Prior to joining Imperva, Shatz held software development and management positions with AOL, Mirabilis, and Comverse. He has served as a captain in the Intelligence unit of the Israeli Air Force. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv College.

Aviv Shoham

VP, Finance

Aviv Shoham has 12 years of managerial experience in finance, operations, program management, business development, and marketing in the high-tech industry. Prior to joining Imperva, Shoham was Director, Financial Planning and Analysis at Check Point Software Technologies where he established and managed a worldwide team of analysts that designed and implemented Check Point's annual strategic planning, budget, and P&L control. In addition, he established a scalable infrastructure for Checkpoint's international sales & marketing organization, including twelve subsidiaries for which he managed finance and HR. Shoham worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he consulted on business plans to start ups and developed a professional training program for CPA working with high-tech start-up companies. Prior to PWC, he worked at Lannet Data Communication Ltd (acquired by Lucent) where he managed the budget of the R&D department. Shoham has a B.A. degree in Economics from Tel Aviv University and an MBA with distinction from Heriot-Watt University.

Gary Staley

SVP WW Sales

Gary Staley has 20 years of sales and sales management experience in the technology sector. Prior to joining Imperva, he was Vice President, Worldwide Sales for the Resource Management Software Group (RMSG) at EMC Corp. His responsibilities included direct sales, sales operations, pre-sales engineering and channel sales of EMC’s software management solutions accounting for several hundred million dollars in revenue. Staley was Regional Vice President at AboveNet, a next-generation provider of advanced optical and IP network services. At Alcatel-Lucent, Staley had responsibility for annual revenues of $200M+ as Area Vice President in the Global Service Provider division. He began his career at Verizon Business where he held several positions in sales and sales management in Verizon’s National Account Program. Staley earned a B.S. in Business Administration at Ohio University.