Amir Orad is a successful CEO, entrepreneur and a big data, cyber security and financial technology thought leader. He brings proven success in leading and scaling businesses by orders of magnitude from no revenue to $200M in both start-up and public company settings as well as multiple exits and M&As.
Amir is the CEO of Sisense, a fast growing Business Analytics company focusing on complex data sets, known for its innovative in-chip technology. Described as "A nasty shock for the big [BI] boys" by ZDNet, and as "Taking "Disruption" to the next level" by Forbes, SiSense is sending a shock wave across the business intelligence industry.
Prior to Sisense Orad was the CEO of NICE Actimize the financial crime and analytics software leader monitoring billions of transactions at the world’s top institutions. Orad led the company’s business functions since it was a $30M business, first as EVP and later as President and CEO. Under his leadership the business grew over six fold with Wall Street reported revenue nearing a $200M run rate.
Prior to Actimize, Orad was part of the founding team and EVP Product/CMO of Cyota a cyber security and payment authentication cloud company protecting over 100 million online users, acquired by RSA Security for $145M. Following the acquisition, he was VP Marketing at RSA. Orad is also a founding board member at BillGuard the venture backed personal finance analytics mobile app company.
Orad started his career as a techie in areas such as data mining, security, robotics and communication and is the author of several innovative patents. As an industry pioneer, he is a thought leader in the application of big data and analytics in the FinTech and Cyber Security domains and often quoted in publications such as Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Washington Post, CNBC, BBC etc.
He lives in New York and earned his MBA at Columbia University and B.Sc in Computer Science and Management at Tel Aviv University.
CEO @ From February 2015 to Present (11 months) Greater New York City AreaBoard Member @ From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Founding Board Member @ From April 2010 to Present (5 years 9 months) Founding Chairman @ From 2014 to Present (1 year) Greater New York City AreaCEO @ From January 2010 to May 2014 (4 years 5 months) Greater New York City AreaEVP Product & CMO @ From January 2007 to January 2010 (3 years 1 month) VP Marketing @ From December 2005 to December 2006 (1 year 1 month) Co-founder, EVP Product, Marketing & BizDev @ From December 1999 to December 2005 (6 years 1 month) Head of Products R&D Branch @ From January 1994 to December 1999 (6 years)
MBA @ Columbia University - Columbia Business SchoolB.Sc @ Tel Aviv University Amir Orad is skilled in: Product Management, Executive Management, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Cybercrime, Start-ups, Fraud, Compliance, Security, Marketing, Risk Management, Mergers, Business Development, Strategy, AML