"Our CTO and CFO now both depend on what they call the 'Digital Fuel Cost Management Process' to make better business decisions with IT."
Management Team
Digital Fuel prides itself on its customers' ongoing business success, enabled by the talent of its people. The company is thriving under the guidance and leadership of its executive team!
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Yisrael Dancziger | President & CEOYisrael Dancziger co-founded Digital Fuel and is responsible for leading the company’s high growth business and customer success. He has a proven track record of leadership in building and operating flexible, execution-oriented organizations from inception through hyper-growth. Yisrael brings to Digital Fuel a wealth of strategic and operational experience from both public and private companies, including Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. (TEVA), Arotech Corporation (ARTX), and Minicom Advanced Systems, Ltd. Yisrael also co-founded Coridan Inc, a pioneer in distributed messaging solutions. Yisrael and his wife Bat-Ami are also the founders and owners of an organic Community Supported Agricultural (CSA) farm in Israel. |
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Joe Pynadath | Vice President of World Wide Sales OperationsJoe serves as the vice president of North America sales operations and is responsible for driving Digital Fuel's sales to meet the accelerating demand for the company's SaaS solutions throughout the NAM region. Joe comes to Digital Fuel with over 16 years of software and management experience in a wide range of IT operations and application management technologies. Joe most recently was the Senior Vice President of Sales at Replay Solutions. While at Replay, Joe spearheaded their entrance into the enterprise market. Prior to Replay, Joe was the Director of Sales for HP Software's Emerging Businesses in the Americas which helped HP grow new strategic market areas such as IT Governance, Change Management, & SOA Management. Prior to HP, Joe was at Mercury Interactive for several years, where he held a variety of different senior management roles. His most recent role during his tenure at Mercury was as the Director of Sales for its ITIL business. Joe helped transform Mercury into a significant player in this market, resulting in impressive growth as it became a $40 million business. Before Mercury, Joe worked at Intel where he held a number of different management and engineering positions. Joe holds a B.S degree in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University. |
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Sangeeta Chakraborty | VP Professional Services North AmericaAs Vice President of North America Professional Services, Sangeeta is responsible for driving Digital Fuel's customer success throughout the North American region. Sangeeta has over 15 years of professional services and management experience, serving various key markets and industries. Prior to Digital Fuel, Sangeeta was most recently Senior Director, Global Services Operations at InQuira, setting up and revamping professional services delivery and operations over North America as well as Europe and APAC. While at InQuira, Sangeeta enabled professional services to be the key player for customer success, by early partnership during the sales process, active project delivery and passionate post implementation support. Prior to InQuira, Sangeeta has held professional services management positions at Interwoven and key delivery and customer success roles at Vitria Technology, Fujitsu Consulting and Tata Consultancy Services. Sangeeta has an M.B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. |
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Yakov Kogan | VP of EngineeringAs Vice President of Engineering and co-founder of Digital Fuel, Yakov Kogan has responsibility for R&D, QA, Product Management, SaaS and Support. Prior to co-founding Digital Fuel, Yakov led development projects at Amdocs (DOX) in customer analytics. For seven years prior to Amdocs, Yakov managed large-scale development projects for major Israeli banks, including Leumi Bank, Discount Bank, and Post Bank. Yakov holds a B.S. (cum laude) and M.S. in Computer Science from Hebrew University, and has published several research papers. |
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Gilad Raz | Chief Technology OfficerCo-founder Gilad Raz serves as Digital Fuel's Chief Technology Officer, guiding the company's technology vision and direction. Prior to co-founding Digital Fuel, Gilad spent eight years as a Senior Software Architect with BRM Group, a leading venture capital fund specializing in early stage and pre-IPO start-ups. At BRM, Gilad led many successful software and network development projects, including Check Point Software's FireWall-1, Symantec's Norton Enterprise Backup, Phoenix's Remus BIOS, and IPHighway's QoS solutions. With more than 16 years of industry experience, Gilad is a leading expert in systems architecture and core level programming. |
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Netta Schmeidler | VP Product ManagementNetta Schmeidler brings extensive product leadership experience to her role as VP of Product Management for Digital Fuel. Netta's track record of delivering solutions that scale to meet the needs of large enterprises while delivering straightforward implementation and ease of use are key for Digital Fuel's uniquely fast time-to-value. Prior to joining Digital Fuel, Netta held several product leadership and development management positions at various companies, including Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP), Identify Software (acquired by BMC), and TopTier (acquired by SAP). Netta holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University, and an MBA from Tel Aviv University. |
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