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Tomer Hadassi

Chief of Staff

Tel Aviv District

Overview 

Tomer Hadassi is currently serving as the Chief of Staff at Upwind Security, with a background that includes roles such as VP, Field CTO at the same company and Head Of Strategy at Spot by Netapp. He has a Bachelor's degree from NYU Stern School of Business and has held various leadership positions in companies like NetApp, Spot.io, and McKinsey & Company.

Work Experience 

  • Chief of Staff

    2024 - Current

  • VP, Field CTO

    2022

    Founding team

Upwind Security provides cybersecurity solutions to protect organizations from digital threats and vulnerabilities.

Raised $180,000,000.00 from Craft Ventures, Greylock, TCV, Penny Jar Capital, Cyberstarts, Sheva Capital, Cerca Partners, Leaders Fund, Alta Park Capital and Cerca Partners.

  • Investor / Founding Student Partner

    2016

Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build.

  • Head Of Strategy - Spot by Netapp

    2021 - 2022

    Product and strategy lead for: - Acquisitions of CloudCheckr, Instaclustr and Fylamynt - Intel <> Spot by NetApp Alliance - Public cloud providers Alliance - ISV ecosystem relationships and deal sourcing

NetApp specializes in data storage, data infrastructure, and data management solutions.

  • Head of Field Engineering

    2019 - 2021

  • Sr. Solutions Architect

    2018 - 2019

  • Solutions Architect

    2018 - 2018

    Spotinst offers a SaaS optimization platform that enables major cost reduction and availability across all cloud providers for any workload. Spotinst optimizes your infrastructure for performance, availability and the lowest cost achieving up to 80% cost reduction. Reach out to learn how to reduce your costs when running Kubernetes, ECS, Cassandra, Jenkins, EMR, Nomad, Elasticsearch, Web Apps and more!

  • Digital Consultant

    2017 - 2018

    Digital Labs enables organizations to capture new value from digital—creating products, experiences, and businesses through new capabilities.

McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity

  • VP of Operations

    2015 - 2017

    - Oversaw the operations of the club including the head of consulting, head of investing head of accountability and their 10 teams - Lead a consulting team of 6 people to advise equity crowd funding platform, OurCrowd and mobile ad agency Moburst

  • Investment Banking Summer Analyst

    2016 - 2016

    - Participated in financial modeling, due diligence and market research for 8 deals with a total value of $440mn - Served as lead analyst for 3 deals valued at $45mn - Supported due diligence process for 4 clients in the Dairy, HVAC, Plumbing and Financial industries

  • Investment Analyst

    2015 - 2015

    -Analyzed separate market sectors in order to identify investment opportunities -Attended pitch meetings and supported the evaluation of incoming startups potential -Participated in strategic client discussions for portfolio companies and discussing business challenges and perspective solutions

  • Quality Engineer

    2013 - 2014

    - Founded an R&D team working in week-long development cycles for system stabilization - Assured ongoing compliance with quality and industry regulatory requirements - Planned conducted and monitored testing procedures for Mirage platform and supporting patches - approved the release of new features to the field. - Investigated customer complaints and participated in solution oriented teams.

VMware Cloud allows users to run, manage, connect and secure an entire portfolio on any cloud to any device.

  • System administrator / Team Leader

    2010 - 2013

    - Managed a team of 10 soldiers functioning as IT Professionals - Designed a training program for new recruits adopted throughout the department - Deployed 18 proprietary IT systems and trained team on use and management - Increased percentage of faults resolved from 73% to 92.7%, higher than any tier 1 team in the unit. - Showcased the teams’ work to the unit’s commanding officer, a model later adopted by my peers. - Acquired technical knowledge in over 20 IT management platforms and over 40 internal platforms. - Supervised team during operation Pillar of Defense requiring being on-call 24/7.

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