Michael Kantarovich

Investor & Advisor

2024 - Current

Helping amazing teams to build industry defining products. Seed investments include: - Imper (stealth) - Oasis Security (https://www.oasis.security) - Trustmi (https://www.trustmi.ai) - Velocity (https://velocity.tech)

Member

2018

Insider

2018

VP Products

2022 - 2024

VP Engineering

2021 - 2022

First Zscaler acquisition in Israel. Built from the ground up and lead the Israeli site and development center for Zscaler

Co-Founder, CPO (Acquired by Zscaler)

2019 - 2021

Acquired by Zscaler: https://www.zscaler.com/press/zscaler-addresses-entitlement-gap-cloud-workloads-acquisition-trustdome Responsible for Product Management, R&D, Operations and Customer success.

VP Products, CASB

2017 - 2018

Responsible for the entire CASB business at Forcepoint and for the Israeli site.

VP Products, CASB (Acquired by Forcepoint)

2014 - 2017

Acquired by Forcepoint LLC: https://www.forcepoint.com/newsroom/2017/forcepoint-acquires-skyfence-extend-its-leadership-cloud-security-data-leakage Responsible for Product Management, R&D and Operations; responsible for the Imperva-Skyfence site in Israel.

Co-Founder, VP R&D (Acquired by Imperva)

2012 - 2014

Acquired by Imperva Inc (IMPV): http://investors.imperva.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=247116&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1897860 Co-Founded a cyber security company, securing cloud-based organizational assets (cloud access security broker).

Director of R&D

2009 - 2012

Responsible for Imperva's File and SharePoint Security product line, including: - Building the R&D group from the ground-up - Customer interactions, determining requirements and product concept definition - Delivery of several major product releases - Sales enablement, training and support

Software Team Leader

2006 - 2009

Lead Java backend/infrastructure team to develop the SecureSphere management appliance.

Software Developer

2005 - 2006

Served as part of the Java backend/infrastructure team. Helped to develop the SecureSphere management appliance.

Software Developer

1998 - 2005

Served for 7 years as software engineer and technology expert for multiple projects.