Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Benny Schnaider joined salto as Co-Founder in 2018. Benny Schnaider is an angel investor. He is a high-tech serial entrepreneur. Benny was the CEO and co-founder of Qumranet (leading open source virtualization solution) acquired by Red Hat, the CEO and founder of PentaCom Ltd. (network product provider) acquired by Cisco, and the co-founder and board member of P-Cube (developer of IP service control platforms) acquired by Cisco. Most recently he co-founded Ravello systems in 2011 and serves as its president and board chairman.

Benny also invests and serves as a board member in several start-ups. Some examples are: Traffix Systems (acquired by F5 in 2012) and B-Hive (acquired by VMware in 2008), OptiCul Diagnostics and Colabo. Benny has held senior management, engineering and strategic roles at many Silicon-Valley based companies including Cisco Systems, Amdahl/Fujitsu, Hitachi, IDT, Sun Microsystems and 3Com. Benny holds a Masters degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University, and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology).