Yaron Bielous
Vice President, Product Management/Product Marketing
A technology executive with more than 25 years of experience in Israel, the U.S. and Europe, Mr. Bielous has identified, defined and executed product strategies for more than ten different products in the networking, telecom and enterprise software industries. At Radware, Mr. Bielous has oversight for the end-to-end product planning, management, and go-to-market lifecycles for its market-leading solutions.
Before joining Radware, Mr. Bielous directed the product management and customer support organizations for Zend Technologies, a software company that supports businesses using Web infrastructure environments. Prior to this, he served as Vice President of Product Management at Aduva, leading the strategy for the company's software product, which managed the deployment of Linux-based enterprise servers. As Vice President of Product Management at NetReality, he played a leadership role in building the award-winning WiseWan bandwidth management solution for enterprises and carriers. Earlier in his career, Mr. Bielous held various product management positions for network management systems and enterprise software companies.
Mr. Bielous earned a B.S. in information systems from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology. Mr. Bielous also holds a patent for optimizing interactions in data communications network environments.
Gilad Zlotkin
Vice President, Virtualization and Management
Dr. Gilad Zlotkin is responsible for leading Radware's Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure (VADI) strategy, product development, roadmap, and management solutions.
He has twenty-five years of experience in the high-tech industry as a developer, senior executive, leading scientist and innovator. Prior to joining Radware, he was the founder and CEO of Xeround Systems, a leading cloud database service provider. Gilad was also founder or was part of the funding management team in four other start-up companies, one became public (Nasdaq:RDVW) and two where acquired by industry leaders (Cisco Systems and Genesys/Alcatel). He was also the founding manager of the Cisco Systems`Software Development Center in Israel.
Dr. Zlotkin has published numerous scientific articles in the field of Multi-agent Systems and Distributed Artificial Intelligence, and has co-authored "Rules of Encounter: Designing Conventions for Automated Negotiation Among Computers" published by MIT Press. In addition, he holds several patents in distributed computing and network management.
Dr. Zlotkin is a former research fellow at MIT, holds a Bs.C in Mathematics and Computer Science, an Ms.C in Computer Science, and a Ph.D in Computer Science from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Udi Abramovic
Vice President, Global Operations
Mr. Abramovic is responsible for the effective operations of the company's global supply chain including purchasing, manufacturing, inventory management, product ordering, and sales contracting processes. He also has oversight for quality initiatives within the company such as ISO standards compliance and directs the activities of both the IT and MIS departments which support the company worldwide.
A veteran in operations management with over 20 years of experience, Mr. Abramovic most recently held the position of VP, Operations for Radlan, a provider of embedded networking software that teamed with Marvell to offer the industry's first 24-port Gigabit Ethernet switch. Prior to his tenure at Radlan, he was VP, Operations for Broadlight, which specialized in semi-conductors. Mr. Abramovic was also founder and VP, Operations for BreezCOM, an early pioneer of broadband wireless access solutions that went public and was later acquired by Alvarion, a leader in WiMAX and wireless broadband solutions. He started his professional career as Manager of Operations for networking communications provider Lannet, which was acquired by Avaya.
Mr. Abramovic has a degree in practical engineering in electronics and computers with the O.R.T. school of engineering in Tel Aviv and holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Derby College.
Christine Aruza
Vice President, Corporate Marketing
Ms. Aruza brings to Radware over a decade of in-depth knowledge of the marketing, sale and delivery of IT solutions. As Vice President of Corporate Marketing, she is responsible for advertising, branding, creative, analyst and public relations, communications, industry events, and corporate programs worldwide.
Ms. Aruza has held management positions in diverse organizations including the F50, enterprise software providers, management consulting firms and international ventures. Most recently, Ms. Aruza served as Senior Vice President of Marketing for Enamics, an IT management software company and two-year recipient of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 award. Prior to Enamics, she directed business development and marketing activities for the international performance management firm Exaide Consulting and had previously co-founded an IT Service Management consulting company. Ms. Aruza began her career spearheading national alliance efforts for Hewlett-Packard's OpenView ITSM unit to rapidly grow its nascent partner base after the company's acquisition of PROLIN.
An industry-awarded marketer, Ms. Aruza is a 2004 CMO Council inductee and has contributed her IT management subject expertise to industry articles, books, and management methodologies. Ms. Aruza graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in liberal arts and sciences from the University of Florida.
Michal Atzmon
Vice President, Human Resources
Ms. Atzmon is responsible for the strategic planning, effective management, and coordination of Human Resources worldwide and provides HR support to Radware's corporate offices.
She brings to Radware over twenty years experience in Human Resources, the majority of them with global high-tech companies. She started her HR career at Serono's InterPharm Laboratories. After that, she was with Scitex & Creo, where she fulfilled various HR management positions during the course of six years. Ms. Atzmon was also Human Resources Manager with Indigo HP, where she had leadership of organization design, development & change management. Most recently, she was VP Human Resources at Amitim, a leading financial organization.
Ms. Atzmon holds an Executive MBA from University of Bradford in The United Kingdom and a B.A. in Theatre and Political Science from Tel Aviv University.
Gadi Meroz
Vice President & General Counsel
Gadi Meroz has served as our General Counsel since April 2010. From July 2001 to November 2008 Mr. Meroz was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of IXI Mobile, Inc. Prior to that, he was an attorney at Volovelsky, Dinstein, Sneh & Co., a law firm specializing in commercial and corporate law, where Mr. Meroz focused on business and venture funding, representing public and private companies as well as venture investors.
Mr. Meroz holds an L.L.B. from the University of Leicester, UK School of Law, and an L.L.M. degree from Tel-Aviv University in collaboration with the Boalt Hall School of Law University of California, Berkeley. In addition, Mr. Meroz obtained an MBA from the University of Leicester, UK. Mr. Meroz is a member of the Israeli Bar as well as of the Law Society of England & Wales.