Israel Ben-Ishai

SVP Engineering

As SVP of Engineering, Israel manages product R&D and the entire development cycle to ensure the timely delivery of high quality and innovative products.

Over the last 25 years, Israel served in key product development and general management positions across the software industry.  Most recently Israel was VP of Engineering at Novell where he managed a global engineering group of 300 people with an annual revenue of over $150MM. Previously, Israel was VP, Engineering at PlateSpin which was acquired by Novell in 2008, preceded by senior Engineering executive roles at Computron, MGI Software, Bioscript, and Certicom.

Israel holds a Dottore degree in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico Di Milano in Milan, Italy. He also completed an intensive Executive training program at Queens University.  Israel was certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified SCRUM Master and is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO).