Trusteer

In 2006, Shlomo Kramer was selected by Network World magazine as one of 20 luminaries who changed the network industry.

Prior to founding Imperva, Kramer co-founded Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. in 1993. At Check Point, he served in various executive roles through 1998 and as a member of the board of directors through 2003. While at Check Point, Kramer 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.

He has participated as an early investor and board member in a number of security and enterprise software companies including Palo Alto Networks, Trusteer, Confidela, and Worklight. Kramer received a Masters degree in Computer Science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.

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 responsible 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 Francisco 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 has over 25 years of venture capital experience, having joined US Venture Partners in 1985. Mr. Krausz’ background and training is in information technology and electrical engineering. Mr. Krausz plays a leadership role in both USVP and the venture capital community. His focus areas include security and internet infrastructure. He was recognized by Forbes in 2003 with a ranking of #6 on its list of top venture capitalists, and he has been on the Forbes top venture capitalist list four out of six years. He served for four years on the National Venture Capital Association Board of Directors, was Treasurer and on the executive committee. Mr. Krausz is a frequent panelist and moderator at many industry and engineering events and forums. Prior to joining USVP, Mr. Krausz had eight years of operating experience with NASA Ames, BTI Computers, Direct Inc. and Daisy Systems, all Silicon Valley based organizations, where he built the strong network and experience base that he brings to his portfolio companies. He served on the Boards of Directors of EPIC Design Technologies, Elantec, Microlinear, Checkpoint Software, Verity, Harmonic Lightwaves, Photon Dynamics; all USVP investments that became successful public companies. Currently he is on the Boards of multiple USVP investments including, Force10 Networks, Guidewire, Imperva, Occam Networks (OCNW), Threatmetrix, Trusteer and Xirrus. Mr. Krausz 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. Mr. Krausz serves on the Strategy Committee of Stanford University's DAPER Fund, Chair of the Stanford GSB Venture Fund and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.

Jacques joined USVP in 2005 and became a Venture Partner in 2009. Jacques focuses on fostering USVP position as an active investor in the Israeli market. He is working with several USVP companies such as Kilopass, Trusteer, Qnovo and Factery. Previously he has advised several portfolio companies including Dune Networks, ClearShape, Yoomba and LightSpeed Logic and served as executive chairman of Synfora and Certess.

Before joining USVP, Jacques was CEO and President of Monterey Design Systems from 1999 until its acquisition by Synopsys (SNPS) in 2004. Prior to that, he founded and served as general manager of the European subsidiary of Epic Design Technology (EPIC) and became vice president of European Sales following its acquisition by Synopsys. Jacques also held a number of research and management positions at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium, at IBM’s Scientific Center in Haifa, Israel and STMicroelectronics in Grenoble, France.

Fluent in English, French and Hebrew, Jacques holds a B.Sc in computer engineering from Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and an MS and Ph.D in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and has published over 30 technical papers.

He is currently the Chairman of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the American Technion Society, he is on the board of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Steering Committees of the Israel Web Tour and the Israel Cleantech Tour and was vice-chairman of the EDA Consortium from 1999 through 2005.

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

Prior to Imperva, Mr. Boodaei 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.