Management

Shai Fultheim - Founder and President

As founder and President of ScaleMP, Shai designed and architected the core technology behind ScaleMP and is, and is now responsible for its strategy and direction. Shai has more than 15 years of experience in technology and business roles in IT and venture backed firms. Before founding ScaleMP, Shai was CTO of BRM Capital, a first-tier Israeli venture-capital fund. Shai defined the fund's technology roadmap, which formed the foundation of BRM's investment strategy.

Prior to BRM, Shai was co-founder, CTO, and VP R&D at several technology startups. He has also served in the Israeli Defense Force's prestigious central intelligence unit, where he led a large IT organization of hundreds of engineers and programmers. Shai managed a broad range of complex IT projects in the areas of security, systems and network infrastructure and knowledge management, gaining significant experience in the domain of scalable computing and large-scale IT infrastructure.

Shai has been an active member of several open source initiatives such as Apache, Jakarta Tomcat, Amanda and the Linux kernel.

Shai holds a Bachelor of Technology and Applied Science from the Jerusalem College of Technology.

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Benzi Galili - Executive Vice President

Benzi is responsible for ScaleMP's complete service offerings including Client Support and Applications/Performance Engineering. He brings 14+ years of experience in managing technology development and services, product and account management, and in product architecture and design geared towards addressing business needs of enterprises and end-users.

Prior to joining ScaleMP, Benzi served as VP of Products at Participate Systems (Acquired by OutStart Inc), VP R&D followed by VP Products and Services at Kamoon Inc, and also as CIO for the ERGO Consulting Group.

Throughout his career he has compiled a successful track record, managing diverse engineering and product management teams, delivering key products and services to companies such as Michelin, GE Healthcare, Raytheon, Amdocs and BMC.

Benzi holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Tel Aviv University (Major in Information Systems), where he graduated with honors.

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Andrew Fine - VP Finance

Andrew is responsible for all finance and accounting functions for ScaleMP, leveraging more than a decade of experience in all aspects of corporate growth and company building in rapid-growth environments.

Before joining ScaleMP Andrew held positions as CFO of Idioma, a leading provider of media-information technology solutions, and Director of Finance and Business Development for Israel's HiTEC Technology Entrepreneurship Center. At HiTEC Andrew was instrumental in establishing and implementing financial and business strategies for numerous hi-tech startups and managed a private investors group providing pre-seed angel funding to technology companies. Prior to HiTEC, Andrew was a Senior Principle and founding member at Euro Strategies, a management consultancy affiliate of Price Waterhouse.

Andrew has also served as an Assistant Political Advisor on Foreign Affairs to the Mayor of Jerusalem and earned both his B.A and M.B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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