Michael Rodeh

Micky retired from IBM in 2016 after serving as VP, Infrastructure Technology, Corporate Strategy, and as VP, Growth Initiatives, Corporate Development. During these two roles, he initiated the acquisitions of Trusteer, Worklight, Storewize, Diligent, and XIV. Prior to that, he served as VP, Technology Blending, Systems and Technology Group, as Director, Strategic Projects, Corporate Strategy, and as Director, IBM Haifa Labs.

Micky is familiar with many hundreds of Israeli start-ups, with most of the local VCs, and with many angel investors.

He has B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics, the Hebrew University, M.Sc. in Computer Science, the Weizmann Institute, and PhD in Computer Science, the Technion. He wrote some 75 journal and conference papers that were cited ~4,500 times and filed 9 patents in data compression, graph algorithms, distributed algorithms, machine architecture, compiler technology, systems, and storage. He served two years as a full professor with tenure at the Computer Science Dept of the Technion and is Member (Emeritus) of the IBM Academy of Technology – the top technical talent in IBM.

Micky served as chairman of the IEEE Computer Society, Israeli Section, President of ILA, Israeli Association of Information Technology, and won the IEEE Israel Life Time Achievement Award for Contributions to the High-Tech Industry in 2012.