Management
Founder, Director
Formerly, Mr. Hasson was a director of computer security and encryption in the Israel Aircraft Industry. He was among the founders of the computer security department of the Israeli Air force.
Mr Hasson holds a B.A. in Social Sciences and a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Democracy Studying from the open university.
Formally AVNETs CEO during the years 1999 2007. Acted as Amdocs’ Information Security VP. Prior to AVNET Avi was the head of developing groups responsible for banking application and delivery channels at Bank Hapoalim group. Prior he established and managed the Information Security department at Bank Hapoalim group. Avi holds M.sc. in Management Science and B.sc in Statistics , both from the Tel Aviv University. Masters thesis cum laude entitled Logical Security of Statistical Data bases.
Mr. Cohen is former CEO of Xor Technologies, the SW house dealing with Information Security, Encryption and Management Solutions.
As a Lieutenant colonel in the IDF Intelligence computer center, he headed the R&D and security related projects.
Mr. Cohen has a B.Sc. in Economy and Political science from Bar-Ilan University and he is a computer system analyst.
Mr. Bachar joined AVNET in 2000, and currently serves as VP of Cyber Technologies.
In this position he manages the Hacking Division, which is worldwide and well-known in the arena of Cyber.
In additional he mange the Cyber Research Division which is one of the major teams in cyber research working on variety of project word wide and the Incident Response Team which was acknowledged for detecting real time APT attacks. Prior to these positions, Mr Bachar was Senior Information Security Consultant. In this capacity he lead various information security projects in diverse information security fields.
Mr. Bachar has received awards from Facebook,YAHOO, Twitter,DropBox, AOL (ICQ) and Checkpoint for identifying security breaches in their solutions.
Mr. Bachar has more than 24 years’ experience in IT and Cyber Security, since his service as Head of Computer and Information Security in the Air Force and Intelligence branches of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF)
Mr. Bachar has a BA degree in Business Administration.
Mr. Zimmerman joined Avnet in 2005, and currently serves as VP Customers & Projects. In this position, Mr. Zimmerman manages the projects division of Avnet with total responsibility for Avnet’s day-to-day activity, with regards to Avnet customers. Prior to that, Mr. Zimmerman served as head of the banking client’s department, account manager and senior information security consultant, leading various information security projects and providing continuous consulting to large business companies in various information security topics.
Mr. Zimmerman has years of experience in IT, and IT security since his service as Head of Information Systems section at the Israeli Navy (ranking – Major). Mr. Zimmerman has B.Sc degree in Industrial Engineering, and an MBA degree (with honors), both from Tel-Aviv University, and a degree in software engineering from the Technichon. Mr. Zimmerman is also certified as a CISSP.
Amir directs Avnet Cyber Group worldwide sales & business development. Amir has established Avnet’s worldwide Multi-Million USD customer’s base and strategic accounts. Prior to Avnet Amir was NSO-Group Sales Manager, building with the team a 1B USD organization from its startup phase, responsible for closing dozens of Millions of USD business deals worldwide.
Amir holds a Biomedical Engineering (B.Sc.) degree as well as Recanati Executive Management education both from Tel-Aviv University. During his military service Amir served as a Team Commander in the Army Special Forces.
VP Cyber Solutions