Management Team

Ziv Kedem is co-founder and VP/GM of 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 CTO 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.

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.