Advisory Board

Noga Alon	Co-founder, ForeScout Technologies
Benny Bergman	General Partner, BSC Growth Fund (Israel)
Gonen Fink	Co-Founder & CEO, Pythagoras Solar
Shlomo Kramer	Co-Founder, Check Point Technologies
Tom Leighton	Co-founder, Akamai
Paul Madera	Managing Partner, Meritech Capital Partners
Vern Paxson	Senior Scientist, ICSI
Yaron Polak	Independent Investor
Yoav Shoham	Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Bill Wallet	Founder & CEO, The Bluebridge Group

Noga Alon
Co-Founder, ForeScout Technologies

Noga Alon is a Baumritter Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. He is a world-renowned authority in Theoretical Computer Science and Combinatorics and the author of over 300 research papers and a book on these topics. Noga has held visiting positions in academic and corporate circles that include MIT, IAS-Princeton, IBM, Bell Labs and Microsoft Research. Noga is a member of the Israel National Academy of Sciences and recipient of the Erdos, Feher, Polya and Bruno prizes.

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Benny Bergman
General Partner, BSC Growth Fund (Israel)

Benny Bergman is a general partner of BCS Growth Fund (Israel) L.P. Previously, Benny has invested in numerous Israeli companies, in a range of industries: high tech, media and communication. Most of these companies are registered on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Benny holds a B.A in economics and accounting from the Hebrew University and an MBA from New York University.

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Gonen Fink
Co-Founder & CEO, Pythagoras Solar

Gonen Fink is currently co-founder and CEO of Pythagoras Solar, a company that develops innovative Photovoltaic panels. Prior to founding Pythagoras, Fink has spent 12 years at Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), a global leader in Internet Security, where he was one of the first employees and served as Vice President of Products (R&D) and Vice President of Solutions & Strategy. Prior to Check Point, Fink has been 7 years in the Israeli military intelligence and served as a special consultant to the ministry of defense. Fink holds a B.Sc. in Physics and Computer Science and M.A. in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University.

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Shlomo Kramer
Co-Founder, Check Point Technologies

Shlomo Kramer, a co-founder of the Company, served as the Company's Executive Vice President from October 1996 until December 1998, and served as Vice President of Product and Business Development from October 1995 to October 1996.

From July 1993 to October 1995, Mr. Kramer served as a Vice President of the Company. Mr. Kramer has served as a director of the Company since its inception in July 1993.

Mr. Kramer received a Masters degree in Computer Science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.

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Tom Leighton
Co-founder, Akamai

Tom Leighton is a co-founder of Akamai, the leading provider of outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. As chief scientist, Dr. Leighton is Akamai's technology visionary as well as a key member of the executive team setting the company's direction. Dr. Leighton is one of the world's pre-eminent authorities on algorithms for network applications, and a professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT.

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Paul Madera
Managing Partner, Meritech Capital Partners

Paul Madera joined Meritech Capital Partners from Montgomery Securities where he was Managing Director and Head of the Private Equity Group. In that position, Paul directed a dedicated unit that evaluated, selected and executed later stage equity private placements. At Montgomery, he directed the raising of over $1 billion in capital for over 30 private companies and several limited partnerships.

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Vern Paxson
Senior Scientist, ICSI

Vern Paxson is a senior scientist with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Center for Internet Research, a non-profit research institute located in Berkeley, California. He is also a staff computer scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where his research focuses on network intrusion detection systems (NIDS), Internet attacks, and Internet measurement. Much of Mr. Paxson's security research is done in the context of Bro, a high-performance, open-source NIDS he developed for LBNL for 24 x 7 operational use. Vern also serves as the chair of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) and is involved in a number of other Internet research and standardization efforts. Vern holds an M.S. and a Ph.D in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. For more information, visit www.icir.org/vern/

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Yaron Polak
Independent Investor

Yaron Polak has over 25 years of experience in the IT and communications industry. He is widely regarded in Israel as a thought leader within the software sector and is a frequent speaker and writer on a range of issues relating to software and Internet investments. Yaron is currently a board member at Aternity, Arootz, FIS Software, and WorkLight. Yaron was the CEO of Ness Technologies, the largest provider of IT services in Israel with over 2,500 employees. Prior to joining Ness, Yaron was the CEO of Wiztec Solutions, a company that he built into a recognized leader in customer care and billing for international pay-TV operators, taking the company public on NASDAQ and then selling it to Convergys. Earlier in his career, Yaron served as the head of sales and marketing of RAD Network Devices, managing subsidiaries in the US and Belgium. He also worked at Control Data Corporation. Yaron holds an MSc in Management Science and Information Technology and a BSc in Applied Mathematics, both from Tel Aviv University.

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Yoav Shoham
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University

Yoav Shoham is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and an authority in the area of Artificial Intelligence. Mr Shoham was a co-founder of TradingDynamics (acquired by Ariba).

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Bill Wallet
Founder & CEO, The Bluebridge Group

Bill Wallet spent 27 years in the high tech marketplace. As an entrepreneur, Bill has founded two companies, one of which, under his leadership, has been acquired by an Israeli firm in 1999. Bill has gained extensive experience in management, sales, and marketing, while at Fortune 500 companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment Corporation. He is currently the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the BlueBridge Group, a retained executive search firm. Bill holds a B.S. from the University of California at Davis.

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