Checkmarx Leadership
Leadership

Our leadership team brings a unique combination of technology, passion, and innovation to Checkmarx. They’re laser-focused on helping Enterprises secure every phase of development and build DevSecTrust.

sandeep
johri
sandeep johri
Sandeep has spent many years in Silicon Valley as an executive, founder, strategic advisor and investor. He most recently served as CEO of Tricentis, which he led for seven years from an early-stage startup to a global leader of continuous-testing software solutions.
Previously, Johri held senior management roles at HP, where he created and implemented the strategy to grow the software division from $600 million in revenue to category leadership and $3.5 billion in revenue.
Johri has been the founder of several VC-funded security startups such as Oblix (acquired by Oracle), Determina and Bluelane (both acquired by VMware).

Maty
Siman
Maty Siman
Maty Siman is the Chief Technology Officer at Checkmarx. As the company’s founder, he has been instrumental in overseeing its technology and product strategy from the very beginning, helping customers achieve their goals of developing and releasing more secure software.
Maty has more than 15 years’ experience in software development, IT security, and source code analysis. Previously, he worked for two years at the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office as a senior IT security expert and project manager. Additionally, he spent six years with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), where he was elected to the STAR excellence program and taught several consecutive sessions for their prestigious application development course, Mamram.
Maty regularly speaks at IT security conferences, including RSA and Black Hat, and has been CISSP certified since 2003.

Shmuel
Arvatz
Shmuel Arvatz
Shmuel Arvatz is the Chief Financial Officer at Checkmarx. He oversees the company’s global financial and IT business functions.
With more than 25 years of experience spanning large software companies, Shmuel has managed global finance and accounting operations as well as led initial and secondary public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and significant sales transactions for a number of companies.
Before joining Checkmarx, Shmuel served as CFO at Allot Communications, a leading provider of security and monetization solutions. Prior to that, he spent 12 years as CFO at ClickSoftware.
Shmuel earned his BA in economics and accounting from Bar-Ilan University.

Kobi
Tzruya
Kobi Tzruya
Kobi Tzruya is the Chief Research and Development Officer at Checkmarx. In this role, he is responsible for setting and executing the company’s R&D strategy and direction.
With more than 24 years of technical experience, Kobi specializes in executive management, solution deployment and adoption, and project management, as well as overseeing customer success and support, sales engineering, and quality assurance.
Prior to joining Checkmarx, Kobi served as Chief Operating Officer at m—wise for nearly nine years, where he led sales and business development.
Kobi earned his master’s in information technology and marketing as well as his bachelor of science in industrial engineering from Tel Aviv University.

Yoav
Ziv
Yoav Ziv
Yoav Ziv is the Chief Customer Success and Global Services Officer at Checkmarx. In this role, he is responsible for ensuring our customers can extract the most value from our products. Yoav brings more than 24 years of comprehensive experience driving service and business excellence in global technology companies.
Deeply understanding our customers’ landscape and processes, he specializes in executive management, employee leadership, customer management, and DevOps software delivery.
Prior to joining Checkmarx, Yoav served as Chief Operating Officer at Qualitest, and before that had a long tenure at Amdocs, where he began as a programmer and left as a general manager.
Yoav earned his MBA from Ben-Gurion University and his bachelor of computer science and economics from Tel Aviv University.

Amit
Daniel
Amit Daniel
Amit Daniel is the Chief Marketing Officer at Checkmarx, heading marketing strategy and execution to support the company’s continued growth. She is a marketing leader with over two decades of experience working with global high-tech companies in multiple sectors and at various stages in their life cycles.
Before joining Checkmarx, Amit worked as CMO of Cognyte, a leading global investigative analytics software company. She led teams of marketers and business development experts responsible for strategy, product marketing, regional marketing, sales enablement, employer branding, internal communications, demand management, and more.
She has also held leadership positions in marketing, product management, and partner sales at several B2B companies.
Amit holds an MBA degree from Northumbria University, UK.

Yigal
Elstein
Yigal Elstein
Yigal is a seasoned enterprise software veteran with 20+ years experience in spearheading and leading sales organisations to drive revenue growth and over achieve.
His track record ranges from early-stage VC- and private equity-backed software companies to large public companies driven to increase market share.
Prior to Checkmarx, he served in leadership positions at Tricentis, ServiceNow, BMC, Mercury Interactive (Acquired by HP), Turbonomic (Acquired by IBM) and Perfecto Mobile (Acquired by Perforce). His expansive experience in heading direct sales, partner and services organizations contributes to his multifaceted leadership.

Assaf
Amitay
Assaf Amitay
Assaf Amitay is the Senior Vice President of Revenue Operations at Checkmarx. He is responsible for building strategic integrations for all go-to-market functions to maximize revenue potential for the company.
Assaf joined in 2019 as VP of Sales Operations. In that role, he built a robust global Sales Ops team and rebuilt the entire department. With the support of our Business Intelligence and Finance teams, he developed a set of tools for forecasting and analyzing sales results along with putting new best practices in place. He is also active in nurturing and guiding our company culture as part of the Checkmarx Culture Steering Committee.
Prior to joining the company, Assaf held leadership positions at Sight Diagnostics, Check Point Software Technologies, and McKinsey & Company.
Assaf holds a BA in economics and a master’s in biotechnology from Bar-Ilan University.

Einat
Zuk
Einat Zuk
Einat Zuk is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Checkmarx. Einat is a seasoned HR Executive and Advisory Board member, with over 25 years of global experience in high-tech growth companies. She has served in senior executive roles, working with all levels of management and the Board of Directors. She is passionate about achieving concrete business goals through good HR strategy and people empowerment.
Einat spent a large span of her career as the SVP HR for Mellanox Technologies, a pioneering computer networking products company, from its very early days until it was acquired by NVIDIA for $7 billion in 2020. She built, developed, and expanded all HR disciplines through the life cycle of the organization, as well as built and managed global, multi-disciplinary teams.