We’re led by cybersecurity veterans (both literal and figurative) with proven track records of bringing innovative cybersecurity products to market.
Dean Sysman
Co-Founder and CEO
Dean is a world-renowned entrepreneur and expert in cybersecurity. He's been honored with a place on the Forbes Under30 Israel list, and winner of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in New York.
Dean is the CEO and Co-Founder of Axonius, which is the world leader in enabling organizations to see and secure their infrastructure and has grown to a $2.6B valuation in less than 5 years from founding. Before founding Axonius, Dean co-founded Cymmetria, A YC-backed cyber deception company with Fortune 500 customers that was acquired by private equity.
He has spoken at major conferences including Blackhat, Defcon, CCC, and more. He is an alumnus of the rank of Captain of an elite unit in the Israeli Intelligence Corps, where he served for five years, during which he received commendations and awards. Dean is a graduate of the special "Etgar" program, where he earned his B.Sc in computer science at the age of 19. In 2005, Dean was part of the gold medal team in the international Robotic Olympics in South Korea.
Ofri Shur
Co-Founder and CTO
Ofri is a graduate of the elite Talpiot military academy and has over 13 years of hands-on experience in the cybersecurity field. After graduating from Talpiot, Ofri served for 8 years as an officer in the IDF’s intelligence corps. In his last position, he was the leader of an R&D section with more than 40 engineers and researchers. During his service, Ofri received several awards, including the Chief of Staff’s Award of Excellence, the highest recognition possible for officers in his rank. Ofri finished his service with the rank of Major. Prior to founding Axonius, he was the CTO of Kayhut, a cybersecurity company with more than 100 employees. Ofri holds a B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics with honors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ofri enjoys skiing with friends and reading history books.
Avidor Bartov
Co-Founder and Chief Architect
Avidor is a globally recognized cybersecurity expert. Starting at the age of 13, Avidor became a staple in the Israeli cybersecurity underground hacking scene; by the time he was 17, he was employed as a leading penetration tester, and personally led the evaluation of the largest organizations in Israel. Following this, he was drafted into an elite cyber intelligence course and was positioned as a security researcher in the 8200 unit. During his service, Avidor was promoted to a team leader as an officer and won many accolades for his classified work, among them the Excellence Award of the head of unit 8200. Avidor graduated from The Open University of Israel with a CS B.Sc. Avidor enjoys long distance running and skydiving.
Amir Ofek
CEO of AxoniusX
Amir is the CEO of AxoniusX. Prior to Axonius, Amir was the CEO of Alcide (acquired by Rapid7), and CyberInt. Before, he worked at Amdocs, where he served as VP Client Business Executive for the SingTel Group, and as the Chief of Staff to the CEO. He also served as a board director at Gilat Sattelite Networks. Amir was a Captain in the IDF 8200 Unit and hold a BSc. (Cum Laude) in IT Engineering from the Technion and an MBA from INSEAD. When Amir is not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife and their two baby daughters.
Chris Kramer
Chief Financial Officer
Chris Kramer is the Chief Financial Officer at Axonius. Prior to Axonius, Chris served as Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer at Okta, Inc. He also held various finance positions with Cyan, Riverbed Technology, Varian, SOLA, eMusic, PWC and E&Y.
Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. In his free time, he enjoys trail running, biking, surfing, and playing golf with his wife and two children.
Lenny Zeltser
Chief Information Security Officer
Lenny Zeltser designs practical security solutions and shepherds them to a sustainable state. As the CISO of Axonius, he leads the security program to earn customers' trust and fuel the company's growth. In his prior roles, he built security products and services at companies such as NCR. Lenny helps shape cybersecurity practices by teaching at SANS Institute and sharing knowledge through writing, public speaking, and community projects. He used to be hands-on in many areas of cybersecurity and IT. Now he focuses on strategy and leadership, treating security as an enabler that helps people and companies achieve their goals. Outside of work, Lenny loves cooking for his family and friends.
Nathan Burke
Chief Marketing Officer
Nathan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Axonius. Passionate about bringing new technologies to market to solve real problems, he has held marketing leadership roles at Hexadite (acquired by Microsoft), Intralinks, MineralTree, CloudLock (acquired by Cisco), and is a frequent speaker and contributing author on topics related to the intersection of collaboration and security. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife, daughter, and dog, and enjoys watching the unfairly dominant New England Patriots.
Nurit Shiber
Chief People Officer
Nurit is a Human Resources Executive with extensive experience in global, high growth organizations (Early stage, Pre-IPO and Public companies). Nurit scaled businesses globally over short periods of time while maintaining their unique culture and connectedness. She is a leader of highly distributed global HR teams and brings a human first approach coupled with business acumen, organizational design and M&A expertise. Prior to joining Axonius Nurit was the Chief People Officer of Sisense and previously held senior HR leadership roles at NICE Systems and Amdocs.
Nick Degnan
Senior Vice President of Global Sales
Nick is Senior Vice President of Sales at Axonius, where he oversees the company’s global sales organization. Nick has spent the past decade building and rapidly scaling global sales and channel teams, and has a deep understanding of the cybersecurity and infrastructure landscape. Prior to Axonius, Nick led the global sales organization at Tanium, where he focused on hyper-growth of the business. Previously, Nick also held roles with Dell EMC and Pure Storage, where he was a founding member of their industry-leading channel program. Pure’s channel program has since become an industry standard and replicated by companies across the globe.
Tom Kennedy
Vice President of Axonius Federal Systems
Tom Kennedy is Vice President of Axonius Federal Systems LLC, where he’s responsible for building on the program’s growth, and expanding the impact and reach of the Axonius platform within the federal marketplace. Prior to joining Axonius, Tom was Vice President of Public Sector at Rubrik, where he helped to accelerate the company’s federal sector growth. He previously served as Vice President and General Manager, Public Sector at Veritas, where he led the company’s federal, state and local, education, and healthcare divisions. He held several leadership roles at Symantec before they spun off Veritas.
Alexandra Mangold
VP of Business Operations
Alexandra is the Vice President of Business Operations at Axonius, where she oversees the company’s data, analytics and business systems. She has over a decade of experience driving revenue growth through technical system integration, process improvement and sales support, both at fast-growing startups and century-old organizations. Alexandra holds a B.A. in Economics and History from The George Washington University. She was born in California and spent most of her career in Washington, D.C., before moving to Brooklyn, N.Y. She enjoys crafting her own cocktails and spinning on her Peloton.
Mark Daggett
VP of Channels and Alliances
Mark Daggett is VP of Channels and Alliances at Axonius. He spent more than 20 years in technology, leading and developing channel and sales teams, including more than four years at Cylance (acquired by BlackBerry), which was the cybersecurity company to most quickly reach $100M. During his time as a channel leader at Cylance, Daggett was integral in helping relaunch its channel program. He has held leadership positions at several IT organizations including Quest Software (acquired by Dell), Govplace and eEye Digital Security. Mark resides in Southern California with his family, and enjoys relaxing at the beach, golfing and skiing.
Mike Trexler
VP of Commercial Sales
Mike is the Vice President of Commercial Sales bringing over a decade of sales and leadership experience to Axonius. He is passionate about teamwork and seeing individuals excel. Mike joined Axonius from Tenable where he led, grew, and trained his team to help Tenable through its IPO. Mike resides in Maryland with his wife and four children. You’ll likely find him playing sports with his kids or coaching one of their teams.
Brandon McTavish
VP of Global Talent Acquisition
Brandon is a global Talent Acquisition executive with 20 years of experience leading teams, driving organizational change, and implementing talent strategies. He is passionate about all things People and spent much of his career in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK, bringing a global perspective to Talent Acquisition, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Employer Branding. Prior to Axonius, Brandon let Talent teams at Barclays, MasterCard, Ernst & Young, and Rosetta Stone. When he's not recruiting you can find him on a soccer field cheering on his two children, and telling his dog to sit.
Edy Glozman
VP Legal
Edy is VP Legal at Axonius, bringing over a decade of experience to support the company’s rapid growth. Edy joined Axonius from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he represented clients (including Fortune500) in dozens of corporate, M&A, and commercial matters, and formerly practiced antitrust law with FBC & Co. He holds an LLM from Columbia Law School, an LLB/BA in Law & Cognitive Sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a published author on negotiation theory. Edy enjoys world travel, stand-up comedy, and acts as his family's DJ on the weekends.
Alon Dener
VP of R&D
Alon is an experienced cybersecurity expert with a rich leadership background. Alon is a graduate of the IDF Atuda program and has served in an elite unit in the Israeli Intelligence Corps. In his last position, he was the leader of an R&D section with more than 40 engineers and researchers. During his service, Alon received several awards, among them the Excellence Award of the head of unit 8200. Before joining Axonius, Alon worked at GrubHub as a Director of Engineering, managing multidisciplinary teams working on many innovative projects. Alon holds a B.Sc. in CS with honors from Tel-Aviv University and an M.Sc. in CS with honors from IDC Herzliya. Alon enjoys skiing and scuba diving when he has the opportunity.
KY Wong
VP of Sales, APAC
KY is the VP of Sales, APAC. He brings more than 20 years of building cybersecurity business across Asia. Prior to Axonius, KY was one of the APJ pioneer sales leaders at Carbon Black and established Carbon Black as a market leader in his region. KY was a key member of the APJ sales leadership, contributing to Carbon Black's IPO and continued to deliver stellar growth post-acquisition by VMware. He has also held leadership position at SonicWALL INC. (later acquired by Dell), building a successful channel business in the region. KY resides in Singapore with his wife and young son. Outside of work, KY enjoys reading and traveling around the region.
Sean Blenkhorn
VP of Sales Engineering
Sean is the Vice President, Sales Engineering at Axonius. As a 20 year cybersecurity expert, Sean has worked with some of the world’s largest companies in architecting and deploying security and compliance solutions including DLP, endpoint security, SIEM, encryption, and more. Sean has extensive experience leading and building both sales engineering and consulting services organizations in rapid growth companies. A graduate of Georgian College in Ontario, Canada for Software Engineering, he is now based in Michigan with his wife and 3 children.
Yoed Grizim
VP of Engineering - Asset Group
Yoed is Vice President of Engineering at Axonius, where he is responsible for overseeing the Asset Group. He possesses extensive expertise in agile work methodologies, innovation, integration operations, and engineering practices. The Asset Group is a customer-obsessed organization with responsibility for Axonius adapters and enforcement actions, from customer requests to field results. They also seek out solutions, external products, identify ways to integrate data, and design and implement features to excel in the technology industry.
Throughout his career, Yoed has established and successfully sold multiple companies and products. Additionally, he has over a decade of experience managing teams in the fields of cyber security and autonomous robotics.
Yoed began his career in technology at the age of 15, as a full stack developer, and holds a B.Sc in Computer Engineering with honors, as well as an MBA, Executive Program from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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