A need for speed

Eldad Farkash is a serial entrepreneur, investor and big data thought leader. Prior to Firebolt, he founded Sisense Inc, a high growth analytics unicorn, was sitting on its board of directors and served as its CTO for 14 years. Eldad is a World Technology Awards fellow, and won the award in 2013 for his In-Chip technology invention.

Saar Bitner is an entrepreneur and executive with a keen understanding of analytics and big data, and more than a decade of marketing, sales, and product management experience. Prior to Firebolt, Saar was the GM at Sisense, a high growth analytics unicorn, and held multiple senior management roles in leading tech companies.

A software engineer turned to the bright side of tech – Asaph is an entrepreneur who held a wide range of marketing leadership roles. Prior to Firebolt, Asaph was one of the first team members at Checkmarx, Israel’s fastest growing cyber security company where he led the marketing team and helped grow the company’s revenue X85.

Boaz Farkash is a seasoned product leader with vast experience in data engineering and real-time analytics. Prior to Firebolt, Boaz was one of the first team members at Sisense, a software analytics unicorn, and contributed to its high growth for over a decade serving as its VP Product. 

Mosha Pasumansky is an experienced engineer with a passion for data processing, analytics and distributed systems. Prior to Firebolt he built OLAP systems in Microsoft SQL Server, co-invented MDX query language and contributed to Bing's distributed storage and processing. As Principal Engineer at Google, he worked on all aspects of BigQuery turning it into Google Cloud's crown jewel.

Gali has over 20 years of experience in a variety of technology leadership roles. Prior to Firebolt, she served as the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) at Sisense with responsibility over customer relationships and growth, totaling $150M and 200+ employees globally. Prior to that, she led strategic partnerships at AOL and the online threats managed services at RSA. Gali truly is customer obsessed and will be responsible for ensuring Firebolt's customers are successful with unlocking their most challenging data use cases.

Izik is an accomplished engineering manager with over 10 years of experience. Prior to Firebolt, Izik led the data team at Bitmain, where he handled real-time data recording and analytics. Izik was also a senior engineer at Jethro Data and was in charge of building high performance databases.

Keenan Rice is a technology entrepreneur and active angel investor. Prior to Firebolt, Keenan was part of the founding team of Looker, building the initial GTM strategy and functions, most recently leading Global Partnerships & Emerging Markets expansion. He was at Looker from 3 employees through the $2.6B Google Cloud acquisition.

Alex has 20 years of experience leading customer-facing teams in the data and analytics space. He has served large enterprise customers across the globe by implementing complex business transformation initiatives. Prior to Firebolt, Alex led pre and post sales teams at Sisense and Imply.

Itay is an Israeli CPA and holds a BA in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University and an MA in Law from Bar Ilan University. Itay has over 20 years of financial leadership experience within Technology companies. Most recently, Itay was the CFO of Morphisec an Endpoint Cyber security company.

Nouras is a business development executive with deep experience in analytics and cloud computing, who loves working at the intersection of marketing, sales, and product strategy. Prior to Firebolt, Nouras headed up the technology ecosystem at Looker, where he built strategic partnerships and joint GTM success culminating in a $2.6bn acquisition by Google Cloud.