Commtouch

Gideon Mantel, Chairman of the Board, co-founded Commtouch in February 1991 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Mantel has been a member of the board of directors since the company's inception in 1991. He has more than ten years of leadership experience in the messaging industry. As one of the pioneers in email development, Mr. Mantel has led Commtouch to its dominant position as the leading provider of outsource email and messaging services worldwide. Before founding Commtouch, Mr. Mantel was Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Financial Leverages Ltd., an Israeli investment fund, where he led the strategic direction of company and managed its Initial Public Offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Mr. Mantel also served as Chief Financial Officer of The Gali Group, one of Israel's largest consumer products companies. Mr. Mantel holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Ron Ela joined Commtouch in July, 2006 as Chief Financial Officer. A Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Ela formerly held management positions at two Israeli-based Nasdaq listed companies, and most recently held the role of Controller at Verint Systems Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Verint Systems Inc. During the five years prior to that time, Ela served as Deputy Controller and subsequently Controller for Partner Communication Ltd. Also, Ela spent 3 years in public accounting with Kesselman & Kesselman, a member of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Israel.

Ronni Zehavi joined Commtouch in June 1999 and serves as Vice President of International Business Development. Prior to joining Commtouch, Mr. Zehavi was Human Resources and Training Manager for "Mondex eCach", a subsidiary company of International Mastercard from 1997 to 1999. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Zehavi was an Organizational Consultant in a counseling firm. Mr. Zehavi received his M.A. degree in Organizational Sociology from Bar-Ilan University and his B.A. degree in History and Educational Psychology from Tel-Aviv University.

Udi Trugman joined Commtouch in December 1996 and serves as Vice President of Research and Development. Before 2002 Mr. Trugman was Senior Director of System in the R&D group. Mr. Trugman has over 15 years of software development and management experience. Prior to working at Commtouch Udi Trugman has specialized in development of commercial applications.

Yossi Maslaton joined Commtouch in 1998 and serves as Vice President of Network Operations and Customer Services. Before 2005 he was Director of Service Operations. With over 19 years of experience in the fields of Information Technology and Networking, Mr. Maslaton is responsible for the operations of Commtouch's data centers and customer services, servicing tens of millions of users daily with the highest standards of uptime. From 1991 to 1998 Mr. Maslaton was Manager of Information Systems and labs for RND Networks, a group of hi-tech startups in the network-routing field. Prior to that, Mr. Maslaton managed the technical field-operations of a large project for the IDF in the areas of distributed computing systems and radio communications.

Ofer Segev has served as our executive vice president and chief financial officer since April 2007, after joining Ness in March 2007 as an executive vice president. From June 2003 to March 2007, he served as chief financial officer of Attunity, a provider of service-oriented software and solutions in the workplace applications market. From May 2001 to June 2003, Mr. Segev was the chief financial officer of TeleKnowledge Group Ltd., a content commerce platform vendor, and he also served as its chief executive officer from January 2002 to June 2003. From May 2000 to May 2001, he served as chief financial officer of Tundo, a developer of an IP-based voice and media services platform. From 1985 through May 2000, Mr. Segev served at Kost Forer Gabbay & Kasierer, a member of Ernst & Young Global, where from 1991 he was a partner and led the high-tech industry practice group, participated in over 20 public offerings in the United States, and, from 1997 to 2000, was a member of the technology steering committee of Ernst & Young International. Mr. Segev holds a B.A. in economics and accounting from Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and has studied at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.