Management Team

Eyal Waldman, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Eyal Waldman is a co-founder of Mellanox, and has served as Mellanox's chief executive officer, president and chairman of Mellanox's board of directors since March 1999. From March 1993 to February 1999, Mr. Waldman served as vice president of engineering and was a cofounder of Galileo Technology Ltd., or Galileo, a semiconductor company, which was acquired by Marvell Technology Group Ltd. in January 2001. From August 1989 to March 1993, Mr. Waldman held a number of design and architecture related positions at Intel Corporation, a manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Mr. Waldman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.

Roni Ashuri, Vice President of Engineering

Roni Ashuri is a co-founder of Mellanox and has served as Mellanox's vice president of engineering since June 1999.  From March 1998 to May 1999, Mr. Ashuri served as product line director of system controllers at Galileo Technology, Ltd.  From May 1987 to February 1998, Mr. Ashuri worked at Intel Corporation, where he was a senior staff member in the Pentium processors department and a cache controller group staff member. Mr. Ashuri holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.

Wayne Augsburger, Vice President of Business Development

Wayne Augsburger has served as Mellanox's vice president of business development since April 2008. Previously, Mr. Augsburger served as Mellanox’s Senior Director of Sales since 2006, and served as Director of Sales from 2000 to 2006. From January of 1997 until September of 2000, Mr. Augsburger served as VP of Sales and Marketing for Cygnet Storage Solutions, Inc., a manufacturer of automated archival storage systems. From May of 1993 until December of 1996, Mr. Augsburger served as VP of Sales and Marketing for Document Imaging Systems Corp., a developer of optical storage solutions. Mr. Augsburger earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Southern Illinois University.

Ari Cohen, Vice President of Network Adapter Products

Ari Cohen has served as Mellanox's vice president of network adapter products since October 2007. Prior to joining Mellanox, from January 2001 to January 2006, Mr. Cohen served as a vice president of engineering and operations and from January 2006 to September 2007 as the chief operations officer with Silverback Systems, acquired by Brocade December 2006. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, and a Master's of Business Administration from Santa Clara University. 

Shai Cohen, Vice President of Operations and Engineering

Shai Cohen is a co-founder of Mellanox and has served as Mellanox's vice president of operations and engineering since June 1999. From September 1989 to May 1999, Mr. Cohen worked at Intel Corporation, where he was a senior staff member in the Pentium processors department and a circuit design manager at the cache controllers group. Mr. Cohen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.

Matthew Gloss, Vice President of Legal Affairs

Matthew Gloss has served as Mellanox's vice president of legal affairs since January 2008. Prior to joining Mellanox, from April 2000 to March 2007, Mr. Gloss served in different capacities in the legal department of Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., including most recently as vice president of business affairs and general counsel. From November 1991 to May 1995, Mr. Gloss served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps and from September 1997 to April 2000 he was engaged in the private practice of law in the Silicon Valley. Mr. Gloss holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Illinois, a Juris Doctorate from DePaul University College of Law and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Gray, Chief Financial Officer

Michael Gray has served as Mellanox's chief financial officer since December 2004. Prior to joining Mellanox, from March 1995 until July 2004, Mr. Gray served in various capacities at SanDisk Corporation, a data storage company, including director of finance from March 1995 to July 1999, vice president of finance from August 1999 to February 2002 and as senior vice president of finance and administration and chief finance officer from March 2002 to July 2004. From July 1990 to February 1995, Mr. Gray served as controller of Consilium, Inc., a systems software development company which was acquired by Applied Materials, Inc. in December 1998. From October 1981 to June 1990, Mr. Gray served in various capacities at ASK Computer Systems, Inc., an ERP solutions provider, including as treasury manager. Mr. Gray holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Illinois and a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University, and is an alumnus of the Stanford/AEA Executive Institute Program.

Aviram Gutman, Vice President of Software Engineering

Aviram Gutman has served as Mellanox's vice president of software engineering since March 2007, and is responsible for Mellanox’s software and firmware development. Mr. Gutman joined Mellanox Technologies in 1999 as a design engineer and served as a Senior Director of Software Engineering between 2003 and February 2007. Prior to Mellanox, Mr. Gutman worked at Intel Corporation, where he managed several microprocessors and cache controller groups. Mr. Gutman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University.

Michael Kagan, Vice President of Architecture

Michael Kagan is a co-founder of Mellanox and has served as Mellanox's vice president of architecture since May 1999.  From August 1983 to April 1999, Mr. Kagan held a number of architecture and design positions at Intel Corporation. While at Intel Corporation, between March 1993 and June 1996, Mr. Kagan managed Pentium MMX design, and between July 1996 to April 1999, he managed the architecture team of the Basic PC product group. Mr. Kagan holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.

Yuval Leader, Vice President of Systems Solutions
Yuval Leader has served as Mellanox’s vice president of systems solutions since 2000. Prior to joining Mellanox, from 1995 to 2000, Mr. Leader served as a project design manager with Galileo Technology, where he was responsible for the Galnet-II Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet switch controllers, GT-48310, GT-48320, and Galnet Ethernet switch controllers, GT-48001, GT-48002, GT-48004 and GT-48006. Mr. Leader holds a Master's degree in Quality Assurance and Reliability from the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel in 1992 and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Technion Institute of Technology in Israel in 1985.

Ronnen Lovinger, Vice President of Manufacturing Operations
Ronnen Lovinger joined Mellanox in Sep 1999 and has served as Sr. Director of Operations since 2005. Previously Mr. Lovinger served as Director of Operations and various Operation & Engineering positions in Mellanox.  From May 1997 to Sep1999, Mr. Lovinger worked at Intel Corporation, where he was holding Engineering positions in the field of microprocessor circuit design. Mr. Lovinger holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.

Thad Omura, Vice President of Product Marketing

Thad Omura has served as Mellanox's vice president of product marketing since October 2005, and served as director of product marketing from May 2004 to October 2005. Prior to joining Mellanox, from January 2003 to April 2004, Mr. Omura served as a market development manager in the semiconductor product sector (now Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.) of Motorola, Inc., a communications company. From August 1996 to December 2002, Mr. Omura held a number of marketing, field applications and sales positions at Galileo and Marvell Technology Group Ltd. following its acquisition of Galileo in January 2001. Mr. Omura holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Shai Rephaeli, Vice President of Product Engineering

Shai Rephaeli joined Mellanox in July-2000 and has served as Senior Director of Product Engineering since 2005, previously serving as Director of Product Engineering, Product Engineering manager, and Senior Product Engineer. From May 1995 to July 2000, Mr. Rephaeli worked at Intel Corporation, where he held various engineering positions in the fields of design for test and product engineering of microprocessor products. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Rephaeli served as a control and instrumentation engineer at Ludan. Mr. Rephaeli holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.

Marc Sultzbaugh, Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Marc Sultzbaugh has served as Mellanox's vice president of worldwide sales since April 2007. Mr. Sultzbaugh joined Mellanox Technologies in 2001 as director of high performance computing and director of central area sales, and was later promoted to senior director of sales in October 2005.  Prior to Mellanox, he held various executive sales and marketing positions with Brooktree Semiconductor. From 1985 to 1989, Sultzbaugh was an engineer at AT&T Microelectronics. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Missouri-Rolla, and a Master’s of Business Administration from The University of California, Irvine.