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Shlomo Kramer

Shlomo Kramer is the co-founder, CEO, and President of Imperva. In 2006, Shlomo was selected by Network World magazine as one of 20 luminaries who changed the network industry. Prior to founding Imperva in 2002, Shlomo was a co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Shlomo served in various executive roles for Check Point through 1998, and as a member of the board of directors of Check Point from the time of the Company's inception until 2003.

A pioneer in the Internet security market, while at Check Point, Shlomo played a key role in defining and creating several category defining products and solutions, including FireWall-1, VPN-1, FloodGate-1, Check Point's OPSEC alliance and Check Point's security appliance program. After leaving Check Point, Shlomo participated as an early investor and board member in security and enterprise software companies such as Business Layers, ForeScout Technologies, and Digital Fuel. Shlomo received a Masters degree in Computer Science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.

Rakesh K. Loonkar

Rakesh is a private investor focusing on early stage Internet security companies. He was the Vice President of North American Sales at NetScreen Technologies (acquired by Juniper Networks) where he was responsible for the team that included Enterprise and Channel Sales as well as Systems Engineering. At NetScreen, Rakesh's team was reponsible for over $120m of revenue with a quarterly bookings growth rate of more than 15%.

Prior to NetScreen, Rakesh was the co-founder of OneSecure (acquired by NetScreen) and served as its founding CEO and Vice President of Business Development and International Sales. Prior to OneSecure, Rakesh was the co-founder and CEO of InfoSolv, a San Franciso based security integrator. Rakesh is also an investor in Palo Alto Networks, Securent, Mu Security, and Mi5 Networks. Rakesh earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Steve Krausz

Steve Krausz who joined USVP in 1985, has a background deeply rooted in information technology. Steve's eight years of operating experience with NASA Ames, BTI Computers, Direct Inc. and Daisy Systems have served him well as an advisor to many leading network vendors, customers, investors, and start-ups. Steve is a frequent panelist and moderator at many industry and engineering events and forums. At USVP, Steve has focused on communications, Internet Infrastructure, networking and enterprise software. He has led the Firm's investments in, Occam Networks, Accelerated Networks, Verity, Rasna, Xylan, Applied Digital Access, Elantec and Micro Linear, all of which became public companies.

Steve was a Board Observer with many successful companies such as Checkpoint Software, Harmonic, and Stratacom. He served on the Boards of Directors of EPIC Design Technologies and Photon Dynamics. Currently he is on a number of private USVP investments including, Agility Communications, Xponent, Megapath, Sierra Monolithics, Object Reservoir, Stratalight, Ceyba Systems, Gluon Networks, Performance Retail, Kasenna, Notiva, Imperva, Synfora and Pathfire. He is a Board of Director Observer with Electric Cloud, New Focus, Checkpoint, and Stratacom. Steve is also on the Board as Treasurer at the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Steve holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar

Mickey Boodaei

Prior to founding Trusteer, Mickey Boodaei co-founded and held the position of Vice President of EMEA sales for Imperva, Inc. Mickey grew EMEA sales from zero to 40% of company revenues in less than 18 months. Prior to that, Mickey was Imperva’s Vice President of Product Management and Technical Services. In this role, Mickey was responsible for defining and creating several category defining products in the fields of application and database security. Prior to Imperva, Mickey was founder and Chief Executive Officer of Edvice - an application and database security consulting group.

Edvice provided advanced security services to major financial institutions including penetration testing, security architecture design and implementation of security features for Web-based applications. Mickey also served for six years as a security research engineer in the Israel Defense Forces. There, he worked on security design, penetration testing, and basic research in the fields of application and database security. He holds a B.Sc. degree from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Ben-Gurion University.