We bring extensive experience from across the software and blockchain security space, 20% of our employees hold PhDs in formal verification methods.
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CEO
Mooly Sagiv is a leading researcher in formal verification. He co-founded Certora to scale formal verification to secure smart contracts. Mooly is a recipient of numerous prestigious academic awards, including the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, ACM fellow, and the Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator, member of European Academy of Science.
CTO
Shelly has an extensive background in formal verification. She is also an experienced software engineer who spent 5 years at Check Point. Shelly is the lead author of the isolation technique for ensuring the correctness of modular reasoning.
Chief Product Officer
Nurit holds a PhD from Tel Aviv University in Static Code Analysis. She is the author of 13 academic papers and 35 patents. She was a CSO at Panaya, a static-analysis company acquired by Infosys and a research manager at KayHut. Nurit has extensive experience in static and dynamic analysis of low-level bytecode, and hands-on experience in transferring ideas from research to robust products.
Chief Scientist
John Toman received his PhD in 2019 from the University of Washington. His research focuses on bringing the power of automated verification to real-world, industrial settings. John’s award-winning, impact-focused research has been published at several top conferences in the field.
VP DeFi Security Labs
Amit is a cyber security expert with a decade of experience in vulnerability research and exploitation and currently leads the security research team at Certora. Amit who holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science, has founded and directed award-winning security research groups.
VP R&D
Jaroslav received his Ph.D. in the areas of formal verification and constraint processing. He is the main developer of several state-of-the-art tools for analyzing infeasible Boolean and SMT constraint systems (e.g., UNIMUS or ReMUS), and his work was published at a dozen major conferences in the field. Before joining Certora, Jaroslav worked as a researcher at the National University of Singapore and at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.
VP of People
Idit has many years of experience in People leadership and OD roles in global leading hi-tech and financial firms including Freescale and Arm. She has proven ability for adding value to the business through HR strategies that support the achievement of business objectives. Idit has a B.Sc. in Psychology and M.Sc. in Organizational Behavior, both from Tel-Aviv University.
US R&D Director
Chandrakana received her PhD from the University of Washington. Her expertise is in compilers, term rewriting, and program synthesis. Her work has won an Adobe Fellowship and Distinguished Paper Awards at POPL and OOPSLA.
Director Development Integrations
Johannes is enthusiastic about security startups and believes that a strong product, backed by an enthusiastic and versatile team can have a massive impact. Originally, he studied mathematics but then found his passion in code analysis, because he is convinced that it can solve many of today’s challenges in security.
Head of Growth
Sofi has been working in the industry for a few years now. She was part of Babylon.finance, a DeFi protocol, and before that, she worked at Open Zeppelin. She is all about exploring new things. In her free time, she has been learning data science and now solidity.
Security Researcher
security researcher
Security Researcher
UI/UX expert/ Senior Product Design
Senior Security Engineer
Senior Researcher
SW Engineer
Senior SW Engineer
Security Engineer
Automation & Python Team Leader
Software TL, Tech Lead
Formal Verification
Security Researcher, Tech Lead
Security Researcher
Security Researcher
Formal Verification Wizard
Customer Success Project Manager
SW TL
Senior Compiler Engineer
Security Engineer
FE Developer
Security Researcher student
Admin Manager
Security Researcher student
Formal Verification Wizard
Researcher
Researcher and Team Leader
Account Manager
Security Engineer/Researcher
Automation Engineer
Product Project Mananger
Researcher
Security Engineer
Data Analysis & SW
SW & Devops
Account Manager
Senior Researcher
Finance Student
Controller
Formal Verification Expert/Architect and Team Leader
FE Developer
security researcher
Senior Compiler Engineer
Formal Verification Wizard
Security Engineer
Senior Researcher
Security Engineer & Product
Director of Finance
Marketing & Sales Specialist
Formal Verification Wizard
DeFi Expert
Sales Rep
People (HR) Specialist
Security Engineer
Formal Verification
Automation Engineer
Security Researcher
Applied Researcher
Senior SW Engineer
Co-Founder, President & Chairman of the Board at StarkWare
Co-founder and president of StarkWare, a technology company that uses cryptographic proofs to solve blockchain's two biggest problems: scalability and privacy.
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies such as Airbnb, Coinbase, Checkr, Gusto, Instacart, OpenDoor, Pinterest, Square, Stripe, Wish.
Founder & CEO at Aave
Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave, the leading decentralized peer-to-peer lending platform.
Entrepreneur & Investor
Balaji S. Srinivasan is an American entrepreneur and investor. He was the co-founder of Counsyl, the former Chief Technology Officer of Coinbase, and former general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Cyber Security Entrepreneur
Serial cyber security entrepreneur combining business acumen and strong technological background. Founded and led several cyber companies to successful exits, including Entercept (acq. McAfee).
Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley
American computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the leader of the Extensible Internet Group at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California.
Co-Founder & CEO at StarkWare Industries
Uri is a co-founder and CEO at StarkWare and a member of its Board of Directors. He has a B.Sc. (Magna cum Laude) in Computer Science from the Hebrew University, and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
Entrepreneur
Moti Rafalin co-founded vFunction and serves as its CEO. He brings over 20 years of experience in the enterprise software market to his role, with a focus on infrastructure, applications, and security.