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.

Rob Strechay is the Senior Vice President of Product for Zerto. Working with customers, partners, engineering and the rest of the Zerto executive team to ensure an innovative roadmap and delivery of quality software. Prior to joining Zerto, Rob was the Worldwide Director of Product Management and Marketing for Software-defined Storage, Hyper-converged and Manageability at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In addition to HPE, Rob held executive and management roles at NetApp, Akorri (acq. By NetApp), and a global 200 financial services company, where Rob was Director for disaster recovery and storage services.

Shlomi brings to Zerto over 20 years of software development leadership positions, from different-sized organizations. Among others, Shlomi was the Director of R&D for Kodak’s Workflow division, specializing in Enterprise software for the Graphic Arts industry, as well as VP of R&D in Brightinfo, a Startup in the Online Marketing space. Shlomi has B.sc in Math & Computer Science from the Bar-Ilan university.

Jim Ortbals is a seasoned channel leader with nearly 20 years of experience in the technology industry, including ten years combined in the channel at VMware and Cisco. His expertise lies in developing new routes to market, with strong skills in people development, partner development and partner-centric operational discipline. Prior to Zerto, Ortbals served as the Director of Commercial and Cloud Partner Sales at VMware, preceded by channel & sales leadership roles at VOSS Solutions, Allot Communications and Cisco. A Miami University graduate, Jim is based in Kansas City, MO.

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.

Amber Johanson is the Vice President for global pre-sales engineering.  In this role, Amber leads all systems engineering – working with customers across all segments to improve their ability to protect and manage critical information.  She will help to continue and drive the transformation to a solution/value-based selling field engineering organization as well as build a cohesive, uniform Sales Engineering culture across the globe.

Ms. Johanson has served in a variety of technical roles during her career and brings extensive experience leading systems engineering sales and services for technology companies.  Prior to joining Zerto, Amber worked for Veritas Technologies as Vice President, Technical Sales.

Amber is proud of her 7 years of service in the United States Navy.  Ms. Johanson maintains active membership with the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), National Association of State Technology Directors (NASTD), and the Executive Women’s Forum (EWF).

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.

Peter Kerr is a Vice President of Global Alliances at Zerto. Peter drives the Zerto alliance strategy across a set of strategic partners and Zerto leadership team. Peter and his team focus on opening new markets through co-developing solutions, scaling through co-marketing and accelerating revenue through co-sell programs across the industry. The Global Alliance team drives alignment of incentives through existing Zerto teams by providing partner strategy and execution muscle across co-develop, co-market, co-sell, re-sell and OEM axis. Before joining Zerto, Peter was a technology executive at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for ten years and later drove alliances strategy inside several mid-stage startups. Peter has developed a strategic framework and execution methodology which transforms “Alliances Teams” into a “Driver of Strategic Value” for startups and growth stage companies. Peter holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management @ Northwestern University.

Ryan is a high-impact leader and strategic business partner who’s known for growing revenues, improving processes, and building high-performing sales teams. He has a unique ability and proven success designing and executing sales plans, exploiting growth opportunities, and creating best practices for customer engagement. Prior to joining Zerto in 2018, Ryan held positions with increasing responsibility at EMC, Juniper Networks, VCE, and Commvault. Ryan holds a BS in Computer Science from Indiana State University and an MBA from The University of Notre Dame.

David Macmillan is the Vice President responsible for driving continued growth for Zerto in existing and new markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This growth will focus on acquiring new customers, retaining and growing existing accounts and extending partner GTM capabilities to deepen relationship across Zerto’s robust ecosystem. With nearly 35 years of experience, David has held various senior Global, International and EMEA based leadership roles with high growth, category defining software companies as well as F100 companies including SVP EMEA at MuleSoft, SVP Global Sales at Jive, Head of Global Sales IBM and others. David started his career with Coopers & Lybrand in Boston, MA prior to relocating to the United Kingdom over 26 years ago where he has experience working in over 50 countries while building out consistently performing, high growth operations.