Ami has extensive experience establishing and investing in global technology companies, such as Xosoft (M&A by NASDAQ:CA); Shellcase (M&A by NASDAQ:TSRA); and GalyOr (M&A by Memscap). He has been a hands-on investor of six IPOs, including JinkoSolar (NYSE:JKS), which achieved a market cap of over $1.5B (USD); WLCSP-Wafer Level Chip Scale Packaging (SSE:603005), which achieved a market cap of over $2B (USD); CMT Medical (CMT.LN); 3NOD (KOSDAQ:3NOD); Voltaire (NASDAQ:VOLT); and Scopus (NASDAQ:SCOP). He is a Board Officer in the Connected Vehicle Trade Association (CVTA). Prior, he was the VP of Strategy at Rafael, Israel MOD’s leading Research and Development center. Ami achieved a B.Sc.EE from The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (NYU) and an MBA from Long Island University.
About Us
About Karamba Security
From electric and software-defined vehicles to medical device and “smart factories”, connected systems are changing our daily lives. With progress comes a growing risk of cyberattacks. Karamba Security provides industry-leading, award winning, end-to-end cybersecurity solutions for vehicles and connected systems. Karamba’s software is designed and implemented to safeguard resource-constrained systems, without interfering with R&D or supply-chain processes.
Karamba Security's' award-winning device-hardening solutions discover, mitigate and manage vulnerabilities throughout the vehicle and IoT device lifecycle, enabling OEM suppliers and device manufacturers to meet cybersecurity regulations, without delaying start or production schedules, or needing to change the ECU or IoT device architecture.
The company’s VCode binary analysis tool allows manufacturers to monitor their entire supply chain for vulnerabilities continually, even when source code is not available, producing a Software Bill of materials (SBOM) and other documentation mandated by government regulations and industry standards.
Fortune 100 companies such as HP and Samsung, EV and SDV OEMs, and IoT product manufacturers rely on Karamba’s end-to-end product security portfolio to meet product security regulations, increase their brand competitiveness and protect their customers against cyberattacks.
Leadership
Karamba Security is led by an experienced executive team comprised of cybersecurity experts and seasoned entrepreneurs.

Ami Dotan
CEO, Co-Founder

David Barzilai
VP Sales & Marketing, Co-Founder
David is a serial entrepreneur with go-to-market executive experience, with a track record of major increases of shareholders value. David serves as Karamba Security’s Executive Chairman and running the company’s go-to-market strategy. Before Karamba David served as VP Marketing at Mellanox (MLNX) enabling revenue growth from $260M to $500M. David joined Mellanox after its acquisition of Voltaire (VOLT), where he was VP Software; managing software sales from $0.5M to $6.5M in one year. Prior to that David was VP at Mercury Interactive (MERQ), signing world largest ISPs as OEMs. David joined Mercury, after it acquired his first company, Conduct, yielding returns of 22X and 6X to its investors. Before Conduct David was a sales executive at Sun Microsystems distributor in Israel, bringing it to be the largest UNIX company in Israel by revenues ($35M) and by market share (42%). Before that David was a software engineer at Amdocs (DOX). David has earned BA in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Tal Ben-David
VP R&D, Co-Founder
Tal is experienced in developing new, innovative products into viable, market-changing products. He was a Senior Research and Development (R&D) Manager at Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP), where he oversaw endpoint and mobile security technology development. Prior, he gained extensive cybersecurity experience overseeing the development of Check Point’s big data analytics and event correlation solutions. Before moving into private enterprise, Tal served in an elite technological unit with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). He received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Statistics (Cum Laude) from the Bar-Ilan University.

Assaf Harel
Chief Scientist, Co-Founder
Assaf has broad experience with embedded networking, security and mobile technologies. Assaf leads the research & innovation activities in Karamba that matured to a vast IP portfolio of innovative products and services with a patent portfolio of forty patents. Prior to co-founding Karamba Security, Assaf was a Senior Research and Development Manager at Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP), where he oversaw the development of Check Point’s endpoint and mobile security technologies. Before that, he held software development positions at Metalink (acquired by Infineon) and Dune Networks (acquired by Broadcom). Assaf served as an officer in the elite intelligence unit of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
Assaf has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Haifa University.

Idit Mor
CFO
Idit has 20+ years of extensive financial and transactional experience that helps organizations build financial-reporting systems and execute their business plans. She began with an internship at Ernst & Young and continues with work at public companies, at capital funds, and in the high-tech industry. She has managed financial departments for 10 years, overseeing all aspects of financial reporting, governance and compliance, and transactional and legal due diligence, including two IPOs (TSE and AIM). In addition, she serves as Director with financial expertise in an audit committee (ACFE). Idit earned a B.A. and CPA at Ruppin Academic Center, is a graduate of Tel Aviv University’s Executive Directors program, and has certification in Organizational Consulting from Bar-Ilan University.
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