Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Ronen joined Viola Ventures in February 2008 and currently serves as a General Partner. His investment areas of focus include SaaS, big data, cyber security, and internet.

Ronen is currently a board member in Samanage, ironSource, Perfecto Mobile, enSilo, Redis Labs, and CodeFresh. He also served as a board member at Shunra (acquired by HP), Amadesa (acquired by Live Person), Kampyle (acquired by Medallia), and Cloudyn (acquired by Microsoft). Before joining Carmel, Ronen was VP of Product Management at Verint Systems, and director of project management at ECtel (NASDAQ: ECTX), where he led the delivery of large-scale, multi-million dollar projects in North and Latin America. Ronen served for 13 years in an elite Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence Unit where he still holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Res.).

He holds a B.A. (Com Laude) in Economics and Middle-East history from Tel Aviv University, and an M.Sc in Technology Management from the University of Maryland University College (UMUC).