Zohar Nissare-Houssen

Zohar Nissare-Houssen is an experienced technology professional currently serving as Strategic Presales Lead at Vespa.ai since October 2024. Previously, Zohar held various roles at Snowflake Computing, including Global Leader for Partner Sales Engineering with a focus on managing relationships with Global System Integrators, and Principal Cloud Data Architect, where responsibilities included leading strategic accounts and building a Center of Excellence. Prior to that, Zohar worked at Cloudera and Hortonworks, specializing in partnership initiatives and technical sales for IBM solutions, and was instrumental in enhancing partner ecosystems. Zohar's career began at IBM Canada, with roles focused on big data and information management solutions, leveraging technical expertise in Hadoop and performance engineering. Zohar holds a Master's degree in Information Systems and Database Engineering from Paris-Sud University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Information Systems from Université Paris Dauphine.