Company

Mickey Boodaei, CEO

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. Mr. Boodaei 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.

Rakesh Loonkar, President

Prior to Trusteer Rakesh 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.

Amit Klein, CTO

Prior to founding Trusteer, Mr. Klein was Chief Scientist at Cyota, Inc. (acquired by RSA Security) a leading provider of layered authentication solutions. In this role, Mr. Klein researched technologies that prevent online fraud, phishing, pharming, He filed several patents in those areas during his time at Cyota. Prior to Cyota, Mr. Klein worked as Director of Security and Research at Sanctum, Inc. (acquired by Watchfire) where he was responsible for the security architecture of all Sanctum products.

Prior to Sanctum, Mr. Klein spent almost 7 years serving in the Israeli Army as a research officer and project manager. He is a graduate of the prestigious Talpiot programme of the Israeli Army. He holds a B.Sc. (cum laude) in Mathematics and Physics from the Hebrew University (Jerusalem). Mr. Klein is also a world renowned security researcher, having published over two dozen articles, papers and technical notes on the topic of Internet security.

Shmulik Regev, Chief Architect

Prior to founding Trusteer, Mr. Regev was Director of R&D for Blue Security where he managed a highly skilled team in the development of a scalable distributed security service. Prior to Blue Security, Regev was founder and CTO of VirtualSelf (acquired by TDNet on 2004). At VirtualSelf, Regev oversaw the entire R&D operation in the development of distributed services and applications for the enterprise.

Prior to VirtualSelf, Regev was a senior software architect for Ubique (an AOL company) where he was involved in the development of a multi-platform Instant Messaging service. He holds an M.Sc. in pure mathematics from the Tel-Aviv University (Magna Cum Laude). He also holds B.Sc. in pure mathematics and computer science from the Tel-Aviv University (Cum Laude).

Justin Bonar, Vice President of Business Development and Sales

Justin Bonar brings to Trusteer tremendous experience in internet security and consumer software. Prior to joining Trusteer, Justin was Senior Manager of Business Development and Sales at PassMark Security which pioneered the development of “Adaptive Authentication”, a multi-factor, multi-layered risk-based authentication platform designed for enterprise and consumer deployment.

PassMark was acquired by RSA Security and the Adaptive Authentication platform now protects over 100 million end users through thousands of enterprises. Prior to RSA and PassMark, Justin was Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Pitney Bowes and Senior Manager of Business Development at Intuit, the makers of Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax. Justin holds a B.A. in Politics, an M.A. in International Relations, and an M.B.A.