Amit Shaked

Current

• Vice President, Products and Marketing at WeFi

Past

• General Manager and VP Product Technologies at SmartShopper.com
• Vice President R&D at Finjan
• VP R&D and General Manager at SoftWatch

• Co-founder, Executive VP of Products at Enbaya
• CTO at Composit Communications
• Technical Officer at Israel Defence Forces

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Education

• Tel Aviv University
• Tel Aviv University

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Amit Shaked’s Summary

Executive level technology and development leader, held several VP R&D, General Manager and CTO positions. Over 18 years of experience, in Internet, security, networking, telecom, and high-performance 3D graphics.
Experienced in raising capital for start-up companies.
MsC and BsC in mathematics and computers from Tel-Aviv University.

Amit Shaked’s Specialties:

Experienced with online Marketing and the analytics of the Internet, practical experience with Web 2.0 technologies.
Deep technology and market knowledge in Content Security, Communications and distributed systems.
Human leadership and team-building skills, concise system design capabilities, unique combination of technology and market analysis skills.
Practical experience with complete cycles of Product Management from concept/MRD to final product.

Amit Shaked’s Experience

• Vice President, Products and Marketing

  WeFi

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years)

  WeFi is building the world's biggest community-driven network of open WiFi for portable computers and mobile devices. WeFi is a growing startup backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pitango Venture Capital and Yossi Vardi.
  In this role I am in charge of the company's product roadmap, Web strategy and online distribution.

• General Manager and VP Product Technologies

  SmartShopper.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2005 — June 2007 (2 years)

  Managing the R&D subsidiary in Tel-Aviv, Israel
  Responsible for leading the technologies that optimize SmartShopper product performance and content quality, and for managing technology cooperation with business and technology partners.
  SmartShopper is the world leader in client-side assisted online shopping and online travel booking, with close to 10 million users worldwide.

• Vice President R&D

  Finjan

  (Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

  April 2003 — July 2005 (2 years 4 months)

  • Finjan develops the most advanced content scanning and protection solutions for web and email, specializing in eliminating viruses, worms, Trojans and other forms of malicious mobile code (MMC).
  • Reporting to the Corporate CEO.
  • In charge of the company’s technology roadmap, define technology vision and goals.
  • Manage technological relationship with OEM partners, including special cooperation with Cisco.
  • Present the company’s technology to analysts, strategic partners and customers.
  • Lead various technology “special projects” to penetrate new markets and customers.

• VP R&D and General Manager

  SoftWatch

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 2002 — March 2003 (10 months)

• Co-founder, Executive VP of Products

  Enbaya

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 1999 — May 2002 (2 years 6 months)

• CTO

  Composit Communications

  (Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 1999 (4 years)

• Technical Officer

  Israel Defence Forces

  (Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  July 1988 — July 1994 (6 years 1 month)

  Development of mission-critical communication and information systems.
  managed a team of 4 engineers / programmers.
  Recent military rank: Major (reserve forces).

Amit Shaked’s Education

• Tel Aviv University

  M.Sc. , Computer Science , 1990 — 1993

  Graduated with special honors (Magna Cum Laude), grade point average 95

  Activities and Societies:

  IEEE

• Tel Aviv University

  B.Sc. , Mathematics and Computer Science , 1985 — 1988

  Graduated with honors, grade point average 91

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