Gil Geron

CEO

New York, New York, United States17 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years of cybersecurity leadership experience.
  • Expert in managing large teams and product strategy.
  • Passionate about customer satisfaction in cloud security.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity Executive with extensive experience in product management and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cyber SecurityProduct ManagementMobile Development

Other Skills

Team ManagementThreat EmulationProduct Lifecycle ManagementMachine LearningMobile ApplicationsVPN DevelopmentTeam LeadershipObject Oriented DesignSoftware DevelopmentNetwork SecurityJavaSecurityMultithreadingObjective-COOP

About

Gil Geron is CEO & Co-founder of Orca Security. Gil has more than 20 years of experience leading and delivering cybersecurity products. Previous to his role as CEO, Gil was chief product officer from the inception of Orca. He’s passionate about customer satisfaction and has worked closely with customers to ensure they are able to thrive securely in the cloud. Gil is committed to providing seamless cybersecurity solutions without compromising on efficiency. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Gil directed a large team of cyber professionals at Check Point Software Technologies

Experience

17 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
7 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Orca security

2 roles

CEO & Co-Founder

Promoted

Mar 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

CPO & Co-Founder

Jan 2018Mar 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Yl ventures

Insider

Jan 2019Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

Check point software technologies, ltd.

4 roles

Director, Cyber Security Gateway and Cloud Products

Promoted

Aug 2017Feb 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Overall RnD responsibility of Check Point's cyber security gateway and cloud products including IPS, Anti Virus, Anti Bot, Threat Emulation, Threat Extraction, Threat Cloud as well as the development of upcoming product and features.
  • Managing a team of 80 developers, project managers, security researchers, data scientists and managers. Responsible of producing the vision and strategy, roadmap and execution of the product line as well as working closely with customers and sale engineers to support sales efforts in those products.
Cyber SecurityProduct ManagementTeam Management

Group Manager, Advanced Threat Prevention

Promoted

Sep 2014Sep 2017 · 3 yrs

  • Overall responsibility for Check Point Threat Emulation Blade, Appliances and Cloud Services. Including: ownership of the entire product life cycle end to end, from initiation, definition and characterization, development, go-to-market strategy and support.
  • The product detects zero-day malwares and stop malware campaigns by combining various detection engines that we are developing. We are utilizing multiple technologies, like sandboxing, Machine Learning and many more.
  • I am managing 22 developers, Data scientist, security researcher and team leaders.
Threat EmulationProduct Lifecycle ManagementMachine LearningProduct ManagementCyber Security

Team leader, Mobile Framework and VPN

Promoted

Apr 2011Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Responsible for the development of Check Point Capsule Connect and Capsule Workspace.
  • Under my management 6 developers leading the development of security applications aimed to provide VPN access on Android and iPhone as well as secure workspace for web and email access.
Mobile ApplicationsVPN DevelopmentTeam LeadershipMobile DevelopmentCyber Security

Software Developer, Identity Awareness

Jul 2008Mar 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Education

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) — Physics and Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2008

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