Dan Avida

With 16 years experience building successful companies and guiding them through to profitable outcomes, Avida brings a strong operating background to the TrapX board of directors. He works with innovative entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Israel who are developing systems, cloud and enterprise infrastructure and applications, solutions for the post-PC world, and security and next-generation collaboration platforms. Most recently, Avida was president and CEO of Decru, Inc., a pioneering storage security company he co-founded in 2001 that was acquired for $272.5 million by Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP) in 2005. He was also a founding member, chairman, and CEO of Electronics for Imaging (NASDAQ: EFII), which under his leadership experienced five years of dramatic, consecutive growth, placing the company on Business Week‘s, Fortune‘s and Forbes‘ lists of fastest-growing companies and on the NASDAQ 100 index. Avida served as an officer in the Israel Defense Force during the years 1984-1989. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, where he graduated summa cum laude. He has five granted patents.