Dave DuPont
Chief Executive Officer

Dave DuPont has almost two decades of experience in the IT industry. He has directed innovative management teams while successfully exploiting new market opportunities in large Fortune 50 companies as well as venture-funded private startups. Dave joined the company as Senior Vice President in February of 2006.

Before joining SANRAD, Dave was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Plasmon, the leader in professional optical storage. In this role he completely revamped the organization’s sales strategy and organization, successfully establishing Plasmon’s blue laser-based Ultra Density Optical technology as the new professional optical storage standard. Dave has also served as Vice President, Marketing and Business Development at Lefthand Networks, a provider of clustered iSCSI array solutions, and led Dell Computer Corporation’s North American Precision Workstation business. Earlier in his career, Dave was with the Hewlett-Packard Company, where he served in a variety of increasingly responsible marketing management roles in the company’s PC and UNIX systems businesses.

Dave holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard.

Gadi Erlich
Chief Technology Officer

As Chief Technology Officer, Gadi has primary responsibility for the company’s technology strategy and roadmap. Prior to joining SANRAD, Gadi worked for seventeen years at National Semiconductor-Israel in a senior technical management position, leading the engineering departments. He was responsible for managing the software group developing various real-time embedded applications and development tools. In his last position at National Semiconductor Israel, Gadi was a director of the system technology and architecture group, responsible for defining system-on-chip solutions (for example NSC Geode soc), RISC processors and future products roadmap (in particular the definition of the companies security roadmap).

Gadi has extensive knowledge and experience in system development and software product life cycle. He also has wide knowledge in a vast number of technical areas including system architecture, processor architecture, compilers and development tools, operating systems, DSP and embedded Real-Time and security applications. During his time at NSC, Gadi submitted four patents (two of them accepted and two are pending approval) in the areas of system and processor architecture.

Gadi graduated with his B.Sc. Cum Laude from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He holds an MBA Suma Cum Laude from the Recanati School of Management, Tel Aviv University.

Yuval Yeret
Vice President, R&D

Prior to joining SANRAD, Yuval worked for thirteen years in the IT R&D space, focusing on networking and storage system development and deployment. In his last position, Yuval was VP of R&D at DiskSites Inc., leading the engineering and quality assurance departments, responsible for developing Wide-area File System software. Prior to that Yuval was Team Lead for Clustering technologies in Exanet. He began his IT career at the Israeli Defense Forces, where he spent seven years in an elite IT unit, culminating at directing the Communications and Security department.

Yuval has extensive knowledge and experience in developing software systems, and the development life cycle, including modern methodologies and a focus on QA productivity. He also has wide technical knowledge in numerous areas including Clustering systems and algorithms, Storage technologies, Networking, IT and Security. Yuval holds a B.A. in Computer Sciences from the Tel Aviv Open University.

Dr. Allon Cohen
Vice President, Product Management

Allon has primary responsibility for the company’s product roadmap and product plans. Allon identifies product requirements, drives feature tradeoff analysis, and manages SANRAD’s product life cycle process. Prior to joining SANRAD, Allon was Vice President of Product Management at Panorama Ltd., the leading provider of business intelligence data warehousing applications. Previously he held senior positions with FLIXEL Ltd., which developed a display based on MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) technology, and Amdocs Ltd., which specializes in customer care and billing systems for network service providers.

Allon holds a B. Sc. (Physics and Mathematics Cum Laude) from the Talpiot Project, which recognizes excellence in technical and scientific military service, an M.A., and a Ph.D. Summa Cum Laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Alon Segal
Vice President, International Sales

Alon is an accomplished executive with over 20 years of experience in international sales across various technology segments, such as wireless switching and access solutions, as well as security and IT communications. His expertise includes sales through one and two-tier distribution channels, Enterprise customers, and the Telco market. Companies where Alon has held senior sales positions include EDSL, acquired by Orckit Communications (NASDAQ: ORCT) where Alon managed the sales department for EMEA & APAC and BreezeCom (Alvarion, NASDAQ: ALVR) where Alon grew sales from a pure start-up base to tens of millions of dollars, recruited and managed an international team responsible for over 60 distributors world-wide. He has also held senior positions at Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), NetMount and Extricom.

Kim Tchang
Vice President, Marketing

Kim Tchang, a seasoned marketing executive with over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, has a proven track record in executing marketing and channel strategies to achieve business goals. Prior to joining SANRAD, Kim directed marketing for NetApp’s StoreVault Division which launched a new network storage line, created a focused channel program and outbound marketing campaigns to reach the fast-growing Small/Medium Business market. She also led worldwide channel marketing at Hitachi Data Systems and several new start-up businesses at Hewlett-Packard. Her accomplishments at HP included opening the HP NetServer Business Unit in Europe, launching a B2B e-commerce store, and creating its first SMB sales and marketing organization, which reached over $2 billion in revenues within 2 years. Kim holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business.