Our Board of Directors

Our Team , Our Investors

The Neocleus Board of Directors is comprised of veterans experienced at directing companies to achieve breakthrough results. The team's emphasis parallels the company's focus: dedicated to high growth and the delivery of significant solutions that change the way people work.

Mr. Ariel Gorfung

Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for executing the company’s strategic vision. Ariel brings over 18 years of successful entrepreneurship and technology industry leadership experience to the role, having most recently served as the Chief Executive Officer of Intuwave Ltd., a UK based company providing connectivity middleware to the Symbian mobile operating system. Prior to Intuwave, Ariel co-founded e-Sponsor (Acquired by Intuwave Ltd. Oct, 2000), held executive positions at Magic Software Enterprises (Nasdaq; MGIC) and established Optibase Inc. (Nasdaq:OBAS).

Mr. Etay Bogner

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, drives the company’s product vision and technical direction. As a networking and security industry veteran, Etay brings extensive expertise and market understanding to his role at Neocleus. This is Etay’s second entrepreneurial venture. Check Point Software Technologies acquired a majority share in Etay’s first company, SofaWare Technologies LTd.  After founding the company, Etay served as managing director of SofaWare Technologies. In addition, Etay has held technical positions at BackWeb and other Internet, networking and security companies.

Mr. Avi Domoshevizki

Venture Partner, Battery Ventures.  Avi joined Battery Ventures in 2005 to focus on Israeli investments in communications infrastructure equipment, clean tech, advanced materials, and semiconductors. He is currently working with a diverse portfolio of companies.  Prior to Battery, Avi was a General Partner with Israel-based Concord Ventures, where he led a variety of investments.  He has successfully guided many broadband, optics, wireless, storage and networking companies through changing business strategies.  Avi also is a former Battery portfolio company executive, having been involved in an ATM/IP multi-service platform leader that was ultimately acquired by Siemens and Newbridge.

Mr. Adi Pundak-Mintz

General Partner, Gemini Israel Funds. As a General Partner at Gemini, Adi draws on his start-up, VC and scientific background to make seed investments. Since joining Gemini in 1999, he has specialized in seed investments in the areas of enterprise IT software and systems, and financial software. He was the first VC in Itemfield, sold to Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA), Diligent sold to IBM, and Traiana sold to ICAP. Some of the world's leading VCs joined Adi in investments including Sequoia, Accel, Foundation, Matrix, Battery and Lightspeed. Adi was also CEO of Sphera , sold to Parallels. Adi sits on the boards of a number of Gemini portfolio companies. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Adi held business development and marketing positions with Nexus Telecommunications (NASDAQ:NSUSF), joining as one of the company's first employees. Nexus develops wireless technologies for messaging and location services. Prior to Nexus, he was an engineer at ECI Telecom (NASDAQ:ECIL), in the early days of the company's SDH (a standard for communicating digital information over fiber-optic cables) business unit. His team developed the first SDH system. Earlier in his career, Adi served in the Israeli Navy as a project engineer for Naval Underwater Systems. Adi is a graduate of the INSEAD MBA program. He holds two degrees from Ohio State University, a B.Sc. with honors in Electrical Engineering and a BA with distinction in Mathematics. He completed over two years towards a M.Sc. in vision-computer science at the Weizmann Institute but ultimately decided that business, not academia, was his true calling. Adi is a frequent speaker in Israel and Europe on VC and high tech topics. Adi was chosen by Yale University as a Yale World Fellow.