Jun 2024 – Feb 2026 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Head of Data, AI & Research at CyberArk, leading the company’s global AI & Data Office across AI/ML product development, enterprise data strategy definition and execution and the build-out of enterprise-grade analytical & operational data platforms.
• Sponsor and key contributor to company-wide AI-driven transformation initiatives focused on internal productivity.
• Built and scaled CyberArk’s AI & Data Excellence Center in Israel from scratch in under 12 months (2025), and established AI & data guilds to drive standards and best practices company-wide.
• Executive sponsor and lead for CyberArk’s Secure AI Agents initiative, owning vision, market positioning, roadmap, partnerships, and delivery to secure AI agents at scale in production environments.
• Lead CyberArk’s cyber research organization (CyberArk Labs), covering threat research, penetration testing, and competitive intelligence, with a strong focus on translating research into product innovation and sustained security leadership.
• Regularly engage with C-level executives and the board, and represent CyberArk on global stages, including executive briefings, key conferences, and major customer and partner events.

Jan 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Global head of AI/ML & Data for PayPal's risk & servicing business, including fraud, credit, customer support, disputes management, compliance and collections.
• Solving wide array of business problems pragmatically while maintaining top quality and high throughput.
• Leadership of incredible 180 world-class AI/ML experts, across 6 regions and 9 different PayPal sites.
• Highly proficient in building enterprise scale data solutions, applying Generative AI (GAI) in production level and deploying traditional ML at scale.

May 2022 – Jan 2023 · 8 mos

• Head of Horizontal ML Solutions & Product, AI Research And Compliance Data Science

Jan 2020 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Leading a global data science & product organization consisting of 4 groups of top talents in the area of data science, product management and AI research , focused on solving complex challenges at huge scale for usage in multiple teams across PayPal
• High visibility and frequent interaction with C level executives, including presentations, business cases building and leading wide initiatives
• Delivering high-impact data science products in scrum environment across business lines with focus on advanced graph processing, web-data harvesting , NLP, LSTM sequencing and predictive modeling.
• Leading the strategic long term AI applied research team for PayPal, aiming to solve the problems of tomorrow in innovative ways.
• Building enterprise grade data platforms by collecting, processing and publishing selected insights and prediction from multiple data sources for usage across PayPal inc and its subsidiaries

Apr 2019 – Dec 2019 · 8 mos

May 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Leading a global data science group consisting of 4 teams and 30 employees, focused on research and delivery of AI based solutions for fraud prevention across multiple domains
• Delivering high-impact fraud solutions in scrum environment across risk business lines with various latency : Real-time, Near real-time (Streaming) and batch processing
• Leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms with big-data tools and methodologies for practical business problem solving
• Deep business understanding and Intense strategic customer management
• High proficiency in presenting to senior management & executive staff

May 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Managed a team of 15 data scientists, developers and security researchers
• Responsible for building and maintaining a 700 fraud solutions product portfolio across all Fraud
• domains : account take over , stolen identity, credit and merchandise fraud
• Automated and scaled the creation of data science solutions from gap to production
• Leveraged cross-platform data elements for advanced analytics and research
• Responsible for R&D and production support of PayPal in-house solution for Proxy, VPN & TOR
• detection and advanced intelligence (HTTP & TCP/IP based). Scaled across the entire PayPal’s web
• traffic

Apr 2013 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Leading the Risk Techo-Analytics Team in PayPal's Risk organization.
• Managing a unique joint team of analysts and technological specialists focused on identifying, researching and developing new technologies for advanced fraud detection.
• Responsible for R&D and production support of PayPal in-house solution for Proxy, VPN & TOR detection and advanced intelligence (HTTP & TCP/IP based). Scaled across the entire PayPal’s production traffic and deployed as a service (SaaS) for usage throughout eBay Inc.
• Full analytic ownership of cutting edge researches aimed at targeting the next generation of fraud, including : internet-intelligence based components creation, behavioral analytics, Malware detection, etc
• Intense product management across PayPal’s Risk and eBay Inc subsidiaries Trust & Safety including interactions with Analysts, technologists and project managers for components development and consumption.

Oct 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Lead Research , Development and Product management of high volume internet application for dynamic real-time proxy connection detection deployed in PayPal's front-end
• Expert in IP obfuscation prevention and cyber security technologies.
• Consumer Clickstream Analysis for fraud prevention and user experience improvement by detecting behavioral patterns in web traffic to site.
• Research , implementation and risk analysis of various data sources used for fraud prevention and mitigation.
• Developed and maintained high-end data accessibility infrastructures.

Feb 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

• As part of BigBand's engineering team I designed and implemented multiple system level solution on various FPGA solutions for online video streaming applications.
• Solutions included high-speed (10G) input pipeline data&control management while delivering SD/HD/3D streaming outputs in a robust manner.
• Deep knowledge of MPEG-2 and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

Nov 2007 – Feb 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Logic design and implementation using VHDL of products on top of Xilinx/Altera FPGAs
• Worked on the entire portfolio of NSN Metro-Ethernet line, including 10G Metro-Ethernet processing and advanced E1/T1/DS3 circuit emulation services (CES)

Oct 2005 – Nov 2007 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Design and execution of complex system & block test plans using System Verilog.
• Worked on a variety of projects, including circuit emulation and high speed Metro-Ethernet processing.