Fernando Bortman

Fernando Bortman has a diverse and extensive work experience spanning over several companies in the technology and cybersecurity industry.

In 1999, Bortman worked as a Fraud Prevention Manager at Partner Israel until 2001. Following that, they joined Comsec as a Fraud prevention and Internet Security Consultant from 2001 to 2002.

From 2002 to 2005, Bortman held various roles at Amdocs, including Sales Engineer, Director of Customer Implementation, and Product Marketing & Management. Fernando then became the Vice President - Customer Business Executive CALA Division at Amdocs from 2008 to 2012. During this time, they established Amdocs offices in Costa Rica, led significant deals with Grupo ICE and America Movil, and achieved substantial revenue growth.

From 2012 to 2017, Bortman worked at Celltick as the General Manager for the CALA and Europe regions. Fernando managed a large P&L and successfully delivered millions of preloads of the company's flagship product.

In 2017, Bortman joined Verint Cyber Intelligence Solutions as the VP Sales and General Manager Americas. In this role, they were responsible for the full P&L, sales, operations, and team management for the Latin America and North America regions until January 2021.

From 2020 to 2022, Bortman served as the Chief Business Officer at Upstream. Fernando played a vital role in providing affordable and secure access to digital services for billions of people.

Currently, Bortman is the Chief Executive Officer at BUGSEC, where they lead a highly trained cyber security crew specializing in keeping environments safe.

Fernando Bortman received their Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) degree in IT from Ruppin Academic Center from 1997 to 2000.