Management Team

Ziv Kedem is founder and Chief Executive Officer for Zerto. He leads the company’s corporate direction and vision. Previously, he co-founded Kashya Inc., now EMC RecoverPoint, where he served as Chief Technology Officer and developed the industry’s most widely used storage replication solution for disaster recovery. Prior to founding Kashya, Ziv co-founded a successful outsourcing business and served as a research scientist in an elite research unit of the Intelligence Corps for the IDF.

Oded Kedem is co-founder and Chief Architect for Zerto. He is responsible for the technical design and delivery of Zerto IT Resilience Platform and leading the vision for the evolution of the product. A seasoned storage industry veteran, Oded previously served as director of software development for EMC, where he managed the entire RecoverPoint (formerly Kashya) research and development organization. Prior to leadership roles at Kashya and EMC, Oded worked on algorithmic research at Expand Networks, specializing in networking and WAN optimization.

Gil Levonai is Chief Marketing Officer for Zerto. He spearheads marketing, supporting the corporate vision by leading the go-to-market strategy. With more than 20 years of experience in various technology management disciplines including marketing, product management, sales, business development and R&D, Gil most recently served as principal at Gil Levonai Strategic Marketing, a consulting firm specializing in high-tech marketing. He previously served as vice president of marketing and strategy at NextNine, a company providing service automation solutions to global enterprises.

Roy Golding brings to his role as CFO at Zerto more than 15 years of experience in senior financial management positions. Including M&A and Strategic Planning. Prior to joining Zerto, Roy served for 5 years as CFO of Telmap where Roy was responsible for the finance, legal and commercial activities for the Telmap worldwide group of companies. in November 2011 Roy helped lead Telmap through its acquisition process resulting in Intel Corp (Nasdaq: INTC) acquiring Telmap. From this date Telmap was a fully owned subsidiary, part of SSG (Software and Service Group), In March 2013 Roy was promoted to Co-president and led In April 2014 the sale of Telmap ,an Intel Company, to Telecommunication System Inc. (TCS). (Nasdaq: TSYS). Prior to Telmap , Roy was a Senior Manager at UHY advisors NY INC where he managed a portfolio of SEC registrant, hi- tech and multi-geographical companies.

Roy is a CPA and holds an LLM, Masters in Law, from Bar Ilan University and a B.A. In Business Administration from The College of Management Academic Studies.

As Zerto’s CRO, Coley Burke leads the global sales organization, focusing on new customer acquisition, growing enterprise and existing accounts, and supporting Zerto’s partner Go-To-Market strategy to increase strategic partner revenue and deepen relationships across the company’s partner ecosystem. Prior to joining Zerto, he spent more than ten years in key sales and business development roles at Dell EMC. Coley is a twenty-eight-year sales veteran in the IT industry; having worked previously for EMC, Kashya, IBM, Quantum and Arrow Electronics with a background in storage and BCDR products and solutions.

Coley holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Siena College.

Avi Raichel joined Zerto as CIO  in 2017. Avi leads the company’s IT team tasked with ensuring that internal processes & systems continue to thrive alongside Zerto’s strong business growth. Before joining Zerto, Raichel spent 17 years at Amdocs where he rose from MIS team leader to vice president of information systems. He led a group of 350 IT professionals and brings expertise and a proven track record of initiating, planning and executing large scale technology led transformations that meet measurable business goals. Avi holds a B.Sc in Economics & Accounting from the Tel-Aviv University, and a CPA certificate from the State of Israel.

Amir Idar brings over 15 years of software development leadership experience, and since joining Zerto 2015 as Development Director has played a major part in building and scaling our top notch Engineering organization. Prior to joining Zerto, Amir served in senior leadership roles at 3M Electronic Monitoring and BMC Software. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Technion, and is studying towards an M.Sc. in Analytics at Georgia Tech.

Sofia is a People and Culture leader with a passion in building and enabling winning cultures, effective teams and growing companies. She has deep experience in both private and public companies; start up phases through growth mode and acquisition with strong emphasis on growing, global companies and specialized experience in talent management, rewards, people operations, coach/counseling, organizational development and culture transformation. Sofia was most recently the Chief People Officer Intralinks. Prior to Intralinks, Sofia held leadership roles at Eze Software, TripAdvisor and other global technology companies. Sofia holds an MS/BA in Economics from Northeastern University. Sofia lives in the Boston area with her family and in her spare time enjoys yoga, soccer and frequent trips to the beach.

Caroline Seymour is the VP, Product Marketing for Zerto, based in Boston, US. In this role Caroline leads the overall product marketing strategy and execution for Zerto. Prior to Zerto, Caroline was at IBM for nine years and before that Cognos. Caroline has a wealth of experience in the Enterprise software space from the many roles she has held in Europe and in North America.

As Zerto’s Vice President of Americas sales, Chris leads the sales and field operations for North and South America. He has a focus on acquiring new customers, expanding existing accounts and driving exponential growth across all customer segments and verticals. Chris has over 20 years of enterprise sales and sales leadership experience. Prior to leading Zerto Americas sales team, Chris most recently served as the Global Vice President & GM of Data Analytics & IoT sales at Hitachi as well as lead the Northeast sales team for Hitachi Data Systems. Additionally, Chris brings experience from Quantum Corporation, MSC Software and held further roles in the partner and system integrator channel. Chris has a Bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University.

Bob McGinness is the VP Customer Success for Zerto. Bob leads a services organization that is passionate about enabling Zerto’s customers and focused on ensuring their long term success. He has over 20 years experience growing teams and scaling operations within high growth SaaS and Enterprise software companies such as Salesforce, Demandware and eDocs.