A Radical New Way to Build Networks, Detaching Network Growth from Network Cost

An entrepreneur at heart, Ido founded DriveNets in December 2015 and has been the company’s CEO, shaping its technological and business vision since. Prior to DriveNets, Ido co-founded Intucell – the company that invented the Self Optimizing Network (SON), which was acquired by Cisco for $475M three years after its inception. After the acquisition, Ido held a leading role in the global mobility solutions business unit at Cisco. Ido started his career as a technology prodigy in the intelligence unit of the IDF.

Hillel is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in building companies and growing their business. He co-founded DriveNets with Ido Susan, driving the company’s business strategy. Prior to DriveNets, Hillel founded Interwise – a Web Conferencing software company that was acquired by AT&T in 2007. After the acquisition, Hillel built and managed AT&T’s R&D center in Israel and was a Senior Advisor to Israel’s Minister of Finance (2013-2015).

Inbar is a high-tech marketer with wide international experience and passion for networking. She joined DriveNets in 2019 to grow the company’s brand awareness and accelerate its business growth. Prior to joining DriveNets, Inbar was VP of Enterprise Product Marketing at Cisco’s Headquarters, supporting a $25B+ portfolio, and VP of marketing at Nokia.

Mike is a seasoned CFO with over 30 years’ experience and six successful exits in numerous hi-tech companies of different sizes, technologies and business models. Mike leads the finance, business operations, corporate development and investors relations activities at Drivenets. His focus is on maximizing the company’s potential and delivering value to its shareholders and employees.

Ryan is a seasoned technology leader with substantial experience building and operating consumer webscale platforms, and the teams which design and support them. Ryan has spent more than 22 years building and leading teams that have operated some of the world’s largest and most critical cloud and network infrastructures. After serving as Salesforce’s Vice President, Infrastructure Engineering & Operations, Ryan joined DriveNets, where he initially served as SVP of Infrastructure, and more recently, Chief Operating Officer.

Orit held several executive positions including Global VP of HR at Check Point and DSPG, Head of Organizational Consulting at PwC and a Board Member of Rafael. In the last twelve years she has consulted, mostly Hi-Tech and Health-Care companies, facilitating their scale-up and success. Orit holds a B.A in Psychology & Counseling from Tel-Aviv University and a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Houston.

John Sweeney is responsible for driving growth and expanding DriveNets’ presence across the Americas. John joins DriveNets from Mavenir where he was Vice President of North American Sales. He has also held senior leadership roles at Ciena, AT&T, Nokia Siemens Networks, and 2Wire.

Ralph brings more than 25 years of experience in Sales and Operations, growing accounts across Telecom, Cable & Cloud verticals. Ralph leads the APAC team to ensure that DriveNets fully supports our customers in the region, with strong operations and partners who accompany the full lifecycle management of DriveNets Network Cloud deployments. Previously, Ralph was an Senior Vice President and General Manager at Juniper Networks Asia Pacific and a VP at Tellabs.

With over 15 years of experience in developing distributed networking systems, Tali lead software development at Compass-EOS. Tali has a deep understanding of routing and Quality of Service, and now, at DriveNets, has built a dedicated team of over 150 engineers to develop a carrier grade, cloud native edge to core router.