zx900

Etai Raz

CEO Etai Raz is a serial entrepreneur and an engineering manager with over 15 years of experience. Etai started his career in Massachusetts based EMC – the world’s leading storage
company. He then moved to the Silicon Valley to become a member of the founding team of Global Factory.Net, one of the world’s first SaaS ERP systems. Etai served as the company’s CTO and was a member of the board of directors until the successful acquisition of the company by Siemens.

Etai was recruited to manage a few more engineering organizations in companies such as Unitronics, Gizmoz and a few others. In 2008 Etai founded zx900, as a company that specializes in solving technology problems for startups and enterprises. His vision was to provide the type of services he always found hard to obtain while he was leading engineering groups. In order to be able to do that, Etai tracked down a number of key technologists that he had the pleasure to work with in the past. These people joined Etai in zx900 and formed a team of co-CTOs – now probably one of the strongest teams in the country.

Etai jokes that he managed to accomplish all this despite his B.Sc. in Computers. When not busy with business and technology, Etai is generally skiing, playing volleyball or mountain biking.

Zvi Schutz

CTO Zvi Schutz has over 25 years of experience in software development, having worked on all stages from the idea to implementation. A true software mastermind/legend, Zvi led the establishment of one of the biggest systems for Israeli intelligence and has served in various leading technological roles at Gizmos, Liacom Systems, FIS, the Israeli Defense Ministry and WHNetworks, among other positions. Zvi’s unique seal is the scalability and flexible design of his projects, which – taking into account real-life situations – are malleable according to rapidly changing needs. Zvi holds a B.Sc. Cum Laude from the Technion Institute of Technology and likes to spend his time in reading about world history and being a father to three children.

Guy Gavriely

CTO Guy Gavriely is an entrepreneurial-oriented techie with over 13 years experience in building software systems. In addition to his current involvement as a C007 at ZX900, Guy is the co-founder of Holdinet. In the past, Guy served as VP of R&D at Sightix as well as other technical positions in various companies, including Comverse and SAP. Guy is a keen member of the open source community and experienced in choosing the right tool to support specific development tasks. Guy holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Interdisciplinary Center.
Guy is the father of two babies, and that's a full time job of itself.

Dan Shamir

CTO Dan Shamir has led multiple teams through the entire development cycle in designing and implementing large-scale systems including architecture design and the selection of suitable technology and development methodology involved in building a robust functional system. He served as System Architect for Unitronics, a Team Leader at Global Factory Inc. and Wydeband and a Development Consultant to various large companies regarding development of Microsoft infrastructure. Among other hobbies, Dan appreciates impressionist art and brews his own craft beer.

Gal Weizenberg

Algorithms Expert Gal Weizenberg is the youngest among zx900’s senior staff and constantly stuns his co-workers and clients with his brilliance and talent. With a strong background in statistics and algorithms, Gal
brings to the team a high system analysis ability and sense of creativity, as well as exceptional programming skills with a variety of platforms. Gal has acted as a Developer and project manager for Microsoft, amd Team Leader and Lead Developer for the IDF Intelligence Corps’ Technological Unit. Gal received regarded certificate of merit for the project he leaded and was nominated for “Award for innovative thought”.
Second only to his passion for computers, Gal takes a strong interest in music.

Ben Geva

Chief of Business Operations Ben Geva masterminds zx900’s business strategy and mediates between clients and development team to ensure ultimate matches. An industrial engineer by training, IT specialist, Ben functions as a product manager for zx's customers and hands-on entrepreneur, conducting feasibility studies of new products and costomer needs.

With a broad product and technology background as a satellite R&D leader for the Israeli Air Force, business analyst of major Bank, and a Product Marketing of high-tech companies. Ben is well positioned to understand customer needs and match them to the dynamic solutions zx900 can offer. On the side, Ben is a guitar player and martial arts expert.