Illusive Executive Leadership

Ofer Israeli

CEO & Founder

Having pioneered deception-based cybersecurity, founder and CEO of Illusive Networks Ofer Israeli leads the company at the forefront of the next evolution of cyber defense. Prior to establishing Illusive, Ofer managed development teams based around the globe at Israel’s seminal cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies and was a research assistant in the Atom Chip Lab focusing on theoretical Quantum Mechanics. Ofer holds B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Arik Levi

CFO

Arik Levi serves as Chief Financial Officer for Illusive. Arik brings over 21 years of financial and management experience in both public and startup technology companies. Before joining Illusive, Arik served as CFO of Powermat, MS-Tech Technologies, Vyyo Inc. (NASDAQ:VYYO), and as an Audit Manager with Kesselman & Kesselman, Israel’s leading accounting firm and a member of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd.

Kristen Twining

SVP Sales - Global Sales

Kristen is a 16-year veteran in the sales industry with demonstrated success in building and leading fortune 500 enterprises, mid-market, and commercial sales, and go-to-market teams. Kristen joins Illusive from FireMon, a network security policy management company, where she served as VP of Business Development and Mid-Enterprise. While there, she achieved double-digit demand and ARR growth. Prior to joining FireMon, Kristen was the Vice President of North America Inside Sales, an organization for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Earlier, Kristen served as the Director of go-to-market sales and strategy for the financial services industry and has held various sales and sales leadership roles for HPE across their multiple segments and industries. Kristen’s experience, drive for delivering positive customer outcomes, and passion for leading, coaching, and mentoring have been key to her success. Kristen earned a BS in Marketing and Spanish from Bentley University.

Nir Greenberg

VP Solutions Engineering

Nir is our resident technical expert, making sure customer needs are understood and met across a wide variety of industry verticals and use cases. Previously, he spent seven years with Check Point where he led the International Endpoint Support Group. He also served as Communication Training Center Deputy Commander and Trainers’ Leader in the Hoshen unit of the Israel Defense Forces, which manages inter-unit communications for the IDF. He graduated from Rehovot’s ORT College as an Electronic and Computer Practical Engineer, and studied social science and management at the Open University.

Brendan O'Connell

Chief Product Officer

Brendan is responsible for leading the company’s product strategy and execution, as well as overseeing the R&D organization. Brendan is a cybersecurity industry veteran with a specialty in guiding R&D teams through scale-up and other major transformation initiatives. His prior roles bring a broad range of experiences to Illusive including founding a successful SOC automation company, managing complex solution portfolios and large scale businesses, and driving major SaaS platform transitions.

Mark Jaffe

VP of Strategy and Business Development

Mark is a seasoned software startup executive who’s created over $750M in returns for startup shareholders. Mark co-founded and led Prelert as CEO to become the leading 3rd-party Splunk App for AI-based behavioral analytics. Prior to Prelert’s acquisition by Elastic, Mark negotiated game-changing product partnerships with companies such as Google, Splunk, CA, Blue Coat, and NetApp. Prior to his CEO roles at Allure Security and Prelert, he led sales teams at OnLink, where he grew revenues from 0 to $20M in under 2 years leading into to the acquisition of OnLink by Siebel Systems, and at McAfee where he was responsible for leading the sales organization of a $100M+ network security product line after the successful acquisition of Securify. Mark has also provided strategy and business development consulting for, and in some cases acted as a board member, for security analytics, data privacy, digital identity and data integration companies.

Sarit Kozokin

VP of Product Management

Sarit leads Illusive’s product team with special skills in product development and launch. She is a seasoned leader with more than 20 years of experience in the Israeli high-tech industry, focusing on Software, SaaS, and Cyber security. Prior to Illusive, Sarit was head of Product at Cyberint, Director, Product Strategy at Checkmarx, and Portfolio and Business Operations Manager, Product Management at IBM.

Meny Duek

VP of R&D

Meny leads Illusive’s Research and Development team and is responsible for driving excellence in technology. He is in charge of building a robust team focused on delivering maximum product value as well as providing top-of-the-line service to Illusive customers. Prior to Illusive, Meny worked at Salesforce as VP Engineering in the Cloud Service division, managing a team of 150 engineers. A seasoned leader with ten years of experience managing global organizations, both startups and large corporate companies, Meny brings to Illusive broad and deep familiarity with delivering SaaS applications and running large-scale engineering teams.

Ori Mebel

VP of People

Ori serves as VP of People, ensuring that the company can attract the best talent and the right culture to drive business results. He will expand on the existing strong foundation to build out a collaborative and nimble team to continue Illusive’s rapid growth.