Management

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Eyal Waldman

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Eyal Waldman is a co-founder of Mellanox, and has served as Mellanox's Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of Mellanox's Board of Directors since March 1999. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Waldman served as Vice President of Engineering and was a co-founder of Galileo Technology Ltd., a semiconductor company, which was acquired by Marvell Technology Group Ltd. in January 2001. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Waldman held a number of design and architecture related positions at Intel Corporation, a manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Mr. Waldman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.

Michael Gray

Chief Financial Officer

Michael Gray has served as Mellanox's chief financial officer since December 2004. Prior to joining Mellanox, from March 1995 until July 2004, Mr. Gray served in various capacities at SanDisk Corporation, a data storage company, including director of finance from March 1995 to July 1999, vice president of finance from August 1999 to February 2002 and as senior vice president of finance and administration and chief finance officer from March 2002 to July 2004. From July 1990 to February 1995, Mr. Gray served as controller of Consilium, Inc., a systems software development company which was acquired by Applied Materials, Inc. in December 1998. From October 1981 to June 1990, Mr. Gray served in various capacities at ASK Computer Systems, Inc., an ERP solutions provider, including as treasury manager. Mr. Gray holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Illinois and a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University, and is an alumnus of the Stanford/AEA Executive Institute Program.

Roni Ashuri

Vice President of Engineering

Roni Ashuri is a co-founder of Mellanox and has served as Mellanox's vice president of engineering since June 1999. From March 1998 to May 1999, Mr. Ashuri served as product line director of system controllers at Galileo Technology, Ltd. From May 1987 to February 1998, Mr. Ashuri worked at Intel Corporation, where he was a senior staff member in the Pentium processors department and a cache controller group staff member. Mr. Ashuri holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.

Wayne Augsburger

Vice President of Business Development

Wayne Augsburger has served as Mellanox's vice president of business development since April 2008. Previously, Mr. Augsburger served as Mellanox's Senior Director of Sales since 2006, and served as Director of Sales from 2000 to 2006. From January of 1997 until September of 2000, Mr. Augsburger served as VP of Sales and Marketing for Cygnet Storage Solutions, Inc., a manufacturer of automated archival storage systems. From May of 1993 until December of 1996, Mr. Augsburger served as VP of Sales and Marketing for Document Imaging Systems Corp., a developer of optical storage solutions. Mr. Augsburger earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Southern Illinois University.

Eyal Babish

Vice President of System Hardware

Eyal Babish has served as Mellanox's vice president of system solutions since March 2010. Mr. Babish joined Mellanox in 2002 and is responsible for the management of Mellanox system solutions and product engineering organization including development, qualification, certification, production testing, program management, and customer support. Prior to Mellanox, he worked at Elbit Systems as a hardware engineer. Eyal graduated with a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion Institute of Technology, Israel.

Shai Cohen

Chief Operating Officer

Shai Cohen is a co-founder of Mellanox and has served as Mellanox's chief operating officer since May 2011. Previously, Mr. Cohen was Mellanox's vice president of operations and engineering from June 1999 to May 2011. From September 1989 to May 1999, Mr. Cohen worked at Intel Corporation, where he was a senior staff member in the Pentium processors department and a circuit design manager at the cache controllers group. Mr. Cohen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.

Matthew Gloss

General Counsel

Matthew Gloss has served as Mellanox's general counsel since May 2011. Previously, Mr. Gloss was Mellanox's vice president of legal affairs from January 2008 to May 2011. Prior to joining Mellanox, from April 2000 to March 2007, Mr. Gloss served in different capacities in the legal department of Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., including most recently as vice president of business affairs and general counsel. From November 1991 to May 1995, Mr. Gloss served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps and from September 1997 to April 2000 he was engaged in the private practice of law in the Silicon Valley. Mr. Gloss holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Illinois, a Juris Doctorate from DePaul University College of Law and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Aviram Gutman

Vice President of Software Engineering

Aviram Gutman has served as Mellanox's vice president of software engineering since March 2007, and is responsible for Mellanox's software and firmware development. Mr. Gutman joined Mellanox Technologies in 1999 as a design engineer and served as a Senior Director of Software Engineering between 2003 and February 2007. Prior to Mellanox, Mr. Gutman worked at Intel Corporation, where he managed several microprocessors and cache controller groups. Mr. Gutman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University.

Yaron Haviv

Vice President of Data Center Solutions

Yaron Haviv has served as Mellanox's vice president of data center solutions since February 2011. Prior to Mellanox, Mr. Haviv was chief technology officer at Voltaire from 2001 to 2011, vice president of research and development and chief designer from 1999 to 2001, and was the chief designer responsible for the system architecture of Voltaire's InfiniBand solutions from 1997 to 1999. Previously, Mr. Haviv served as a hardware and chip designer at Scitex Corporation Ltd., an Israeli-based developer, manufacturer, marketer and servicer of interactive computerized prepress systems for the graphic design, printing, and publishing markets. Mr. Haviv holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Michael Kagan

Chief Technology Officer

Michael Kagan is a co-founder of Mellanox and has served as CTO since January 2009. Previously, Mr. Kagan served as vice president of architecture from May 1999 to December 2008. From August 1983 to April 1999, Mr. Kagan held a number of architecture and design positions at Intel Corporation. While at Intel Corporation, between March 1993 and June 1996, Mr. Kagan managed Pentium MMX design, and from July 1996 to April 1999, he managed the architecture team of the Basic PC product group. Mr. Kagan holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.

David Barzilai

Vice President of Marketing

David Barzilai has served as Mellanox's vice president of marketing since September 2011. From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Barzilai served as vice president of software business at Voltaire. Previously, Mr. Barzilai served as CEO and Founder of Certagon, a Service Oriented Architecture transaction management company from 2003 to 2007. Prior to Certagon, Mr. Barzilai was VP Internet Performance Management with Mercury Interactive from 2000 to 2002, and was CEO and Founder of Conduct, a network and system management software company which was acquired by Mercury Interactive in 2000. From 1990 to 1996, David ran the sales of E&M Computing, an exclusive distributor for Sun Microsystems. Mr. Barzilai holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Amir Prescher

Vice President of Business Development

Amir Prescher has served as Mellanox's vice president of business development since February 2011. Prior to Mellanox, Mr. Prescher was a founder of Voltaire where he served in various capacities, including executive vice president of business development from 2008 to 2011, vice president of business development from 2001 to 2008,vice president of marketing from 1999 to 2008, and from 1997 to 1999, as vice president of research and development. Prior to Voltaire, Mr. Prescher served as an officer in Israel's Defense Forces Technical Intelligence Unit. Mr. Prescher studied at Tel-Aviv University with a focus in electricity and electronics engineering.

Yiftah Shahar

Vice President of Software Engineering

Mr. Yiftah Shahar has served as Mellanox's vice president of software engineering since February 2011, and is responsible for Mellanox's software solutions development. Prior to Mellanox, Mr. Shahar worked 10 years at Voltaire in various software engineering positions where he was responsible for Voltaire's software development. Previously, Mr. Shahar worked at Motorola Israel in the DDC data device division. Mr. Shahar holds a Bachelor of Science from Hebrew University Jerusalem.

Marc Sultzbaugh

Vice President of World Wide Sales

Marc Sultzbaugh has served as Mellanox's vice president of worldwide sales since April 2007. Mr. Sultzbaugh joined Mellanox Technologies in 2001 as director of high performance computing and director of central area sales, and was later promoted to senior director of sales in October 2005. Prior to Mellanox, he held various executive sales and marketing positions with Brooktree Semiconductor. From 1985 to 1989, Sultzbaugh was an engineer at AT&T Microelectronics. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Missouri-Rolla, and a Master's of Business Administration from The University of California, Irvine.