Ilan Tayari

Ilan Tayari is currently the VP of Architecture at NextSilicon. Prior to this, they were the Director of SW at Mellanox Technologies from July 2014 to July 2017. While at Mellanox, Ilan invested in several start-up companies and teamed up with a few Israeli VCs and angels. One of the companies invested in, AcceloWeb, was acquired by Limelight Networks (NASDAQ: LLNW). Ilan's current portfolio includes SimpleQL, Cymmetria, MetaPacket, Sensibo, Bonfix Medical, and Medcu.

Before Mellanox, Ilan was the Founder at Go Vivo from January 2013 to December 2014. Go Vivo is a company that created the VIVO Bracelet- an electronic sensor embedded in a bracelet that measures and records a child’s physical activity.

Ilan Tayari has also been the Founder & CTO at RazTech from January 2005 to May 2007 and Senior Team Leader at IDF from January 2001 to January 2005. Ilan started their career as an Application Engineer at Proficiency from May 2000 to January 2001.

Ilan Tayari is a Field Instructor at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and a lecturer at Harvard Business School Executive Education.

They are on a team with Keren Onana Hollander - VP, HR, Dana Zur Neumann - General Counsel, and Adi Menahem - VP, Finance & Operations. Their manager is Elad Raz, Founder & CEO. A direct report to Ilan Tayari is and Mehmet Belgin - Director of Applications.