Yuval Ben-Itzhak

Yuval Ben-Itzhak is an executive and entrepreneur. He received a number of honors and public recognition for his work as a Chief Technology Officer throughout his career. Ben-Itzhak has been selected as the 25 most influencing CTO by InfoWorld, 40 Innovative IT People To Watch by Computerworld, and 2017 Chief Technology Officer of the Year by GeekTime. He was the Chief Technology Officer at AVG and was part of the leadership team that took AVG through its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012.[1] He was the Chief Technology Officer at Outbrain until 2017,[2] and led the acquisition of Socialbakers by Astute in 2020[3] as the Chief Executive Officer.[4]

Yuval Ben-Itzhak
Keynote at the 2014 Mobile World Congress
Born
Israel
Alma materBen-Gurion University, B.Sc Information systems, Management & Industrial Engineering (Cum Laude)
OccupationChief Executive Officer at Socialbakers

Career
  • 2017–2020: Chief Executive Officer, Socialbakers[5]
  • 2015–2017: Chief Technology Officer, Outbrain[6]
  • 2009–2015: Chief Technology Officer, AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG)[7]
  • 2005–2009: Chief Technology Officer, Finjan Inc.[8]
  • 2000–2004: Chief Technology Officer, Founder, KaVaDo Inc.[9]
  • 1998–2000: Chief Technology Officer, Ness Technologies (Nasdaq: NSTC)
  • 1994–1996: Software development & management, Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC)
  • 1988–1992: Intelligence services, IDF

Awards
  • 2017 – Chief Technology Officer of the Year by GeekTime[10]
  • 2007 – 40 Innovative IT People To Watch by Computerworld[11]
  • 2004 – Top 25 Most Influential CTOs by InfoWorld[12]

Patents
  • US 9,525,680 – Splitting an SSL connection between gateways
  • US 9,514,477 – Systems and methods for providing user-specific content on an electronic device
  • US 9,424,422 – Detection of rogue software applications
  • US 9,294,493 – Computer security method and system with input parameter validation
  • US 9,288,226 – Detection of rogue software applications
  • US 9,280,391 – Systems and methods for improving performance of computer systems
  • US 9,110,595 – Systems and methods for enhancing performance of software applications
  • US 9,058,612 – Systems and methods for recommending software applications
  • US 8,769,690 – Protection from malicious web content
  • US 8,732,831 – Detection of rogue software applications
  • US 8,566,580 – Splitting an SSL connection between gateways
  • US 8,141,154 – System and method for inspecting dynamically generated executable code
  • US 8,087,079 – Byte-distribution analysis of file security
  • US 8,015,182 – System and method for appending security information to search engine results
  • US 7,930,299 – System and method for appending security information to search engine results
  • US 7,882,555 – Application layer security method and system
  • US 7,757,289 – System and method for inspecting dynamically generated executable code
  • US 7,614,085 – Method for the automatic setting and updating of a security policy
  • US 7,613,918 – System and method for enforcing a security context on a downloadable
  • US 7,313,822 – Application-layer security method and system

References
  1. "Reuters". reuters.com.
  2. "PRNewswire". prnewswire.com.
  3. "TechCrunch". techcrunch.com.
  4. "Socialbakers". socialbakers.com.
  5. "Socialbakers". socialbakers.com.
  6. "PRNewswire". prnewswire.com.
  7. "AVG.com". avg.com.
  8. "Finjan". finjan.com.
  9. "Kavado". kavado.com.
  10. "Geek Awards 2017 recognize Israel's startup ecosystem leaders". Geektime.com. 2017-01-26. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
  11. 40 Innovative IT People To Watch Archived March 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  12. 25 most influencing CTO Archived December 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
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