Management Team

Sam is one of the world's leading experts on middleware messaging technologies. An experienced and successful entrepreneur, he has an extensive track record transforming new technologies into profitable new businesses, from initial concept to development and commercialization. Until recently Sam was the CEO and Chairman of Itemfield, which was acquired by Informatica. Previously, Sam was the president, CTO and co-founder of Level 8 (NASD: LVEL), as well as founder and CEO of Data Voice Systems, where he developed the concept for the first transactional messaging product, which was the foundation of IBM MQSeries. Sam received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, an M.Sc in computer science from Columbia University and an MBA from Baruch College.

Eyal has more than 18 years of senior executive management experience in enterprise software and Security space Eyal joined ActionBase after working with leading media and financial services firms in the areas of SOA and Web 2.0. Eyal was the founder and CEO of SilverKite, one of the early players in SOA providing Compliance and Governance for SOA and Web Services working with leading early adaptors Fortune 1000 corporations. Previously Eyal was the CEO of Excedo, formerly ModusNovo (acquired by Evantra Inc.). a real-time Business Intelligence and analytics vendor focused at identifying and classifying important events and sending real time Alerts to stakeholders across the enterprise. Before that, Eyal spent several years with Aladdin (NASDAQ: ALDN) where he held various business positions including the Corporate VP of Business Development and Vice President of Sales. Eyal has also held senior marketing and sales positions at Dun & Bradstreet International a leading international Business Information provider and Trend-line (TASE: TREN), the first Israeli ISP and Business information provider. Eyal spent several years in Air Force Intelligence, holds an MBA in Information Systems and Finance and a B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) in Political Science both from Bar-Ilan University.

Jacob has a proven track record in discovering and developing innovative solutions to real-world customer problems, and then developing them into products. Jacob has fostered innovation in many different environments, including both research and business settings. Until recently Jacob served as CTO of Itemfield, the leader in next-generation data transformation, where Jacob oversaw Itemfield's innovation, vision and strategy until its acquisition by Informatica.
Previously, Jacob was CTO and Business Development Executive for IBM's Global Technology Unit. Prior to that role, he was a department general manager at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Lab, managing a group of 130 cross-disciplinary researchers. Jacob received his Doctorate of Science in computer science from the Technion University in Israel. Jacob has been published in many technical journals and has spoken at conferences worldwide. In 1997 he received the Alexander C. Williams Ergonomics and Human Factors Award from the Human Factors Society.

Dor Ramati joined ActionBase in 2008 to lead the Research and Development team. Dor has broad experience in R&D specializing in real time and batch enterprise applications for large scale databases, including enterprise reporting and business analytics. Prior to joining ActionBase Dor served as a R&D Manager at Octavian (www.octavian-tech.com) and Director at Amdocs' (Nasdaq: DOX) R&D division, where he was responsible for the development of a wide variety of business support systems.
Dor holds a B.S. in Information Systems Engineering (Magna Cum Laude) from Ben Gurion University, Israel.

Dan joined ActionBase in 2000 and was instrumental in building ActionBase offering and customers Base. Driven by genuine belief in the company and its product, led the company management buy-out, and the joining of Advantech Group. Dan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, specializing in marketing and has over ten years experience in sales and marketing management.

In his current role, Eyal is responsible for defining new business solutions and expanding the product’s existing offering by supplying additional functionality to a selected number of vertical use cases. In addition, Eyal is in charge of developing technological partnerships that lead to integrations and OEM's, as well as extending the product’s capabilities.
Eyal is one of the company’s veteran employees and was positioned as the VP R&D.
Eyal has 15 years in the field of software development and has been an active partner in planning, architecture definition and design as well as heading the ActionBase development team.
Prior to ActionBase, Eyal worked as a team leader at Eyron Ltd in developing tailored made software solutions for customers in the construction and the semi-conductors segments, as well as at Oracle Israel.
Previously, Eyal worked as a software engineer, at several positions, at Oracle Israel.
Eyal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and an MBA, specializing in data systems.

Ayal Steiner Joined ActionBase in 2004 and managed the development of ActionBase for Office. Since then Ayal has moved on to product management and is currently responsible for the product’s roadmap, lifecycle and market analysis. Ayal has vast experience in the IT industry with more than 8 years of experience in research and development of enterprise solutions. In the course of his work, Ayal was nominated as Microsoft Regional Manager for Office solutions by Microsoft Israel and is a key speaker in Microsoft events. Prior to working in ActionBase Ayal has worked in Elbit in a variety of aviation upgrades programs and battlefield intelligence projects.
Ayal has a B.Sc in information systems management from the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion) and is scheduled to graduate his International Management MBA program from the Interdisciplinary Center in 2009.

Shif Arad joined ActionBase in 2007 to direct the Professional Services team. In his role Shif Arad is leading the delivery and implementation of ActionBase, walking our customers through implementation phase, focusing on processes discovery and modeling. Shif is also in charge of global coordination of all support activities as well as all aspects of support operations provided by ActionBase. Shif has a rich background in the hi tech industry with more than 10 years of experience, from software development (Microsoft MCP) and Microsoft Infrastructures Technologies (Senior Consultant at Microsoft MTC in Tel Aviv) to Professional Services (Identify\BMC).