Reimagining Enterprise Analytics

Omri Kohl is the CEO and co-founder of Pyramid Analytics. The Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform delivers data-driven insights for anyone to make faster, more intelligent decisions. He leads the company’s strategy and operations through a fast-growing data and analytics market. Kohl brings a deep understanding of analytics and AI technologies, valuable management experience, and a natural ability to challenge conventional thinking. Kohl is a highly experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record in developing and managing fast-growth companies. He studied economics, finance, and business management at Bar-Ilan University and has an MBA in International Business Management from New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

As CTO and co-founder, Avi Perez is the visionary responsible for creating, developing, and managing the Pyramid Analytics Decision Intelligence Platform. In addition to driving the company’s long-term technology roadmap, Perez oversees corporate strategy and all aspects of the company’s R&D efforts. Prior to this role, he was co-founder and development manager of Urix, a successful U.S.-based healthcare informatics company. There, he architected several proprietary Urix analytical systems and became an industry authority on the latest advances in online analytics.

Perez has a B-Com from UNSW Australia and an MBA from Yale.

As executive vice president of business development and co-founder, Herbert Ochtman drives Pyramid Analytics operations, overseeing its market strategy and accelerated growth. He has extensive experience advising and growing technology companies and bringing innovative technologies to market. Prior to Pyramid Analytics, Ochtman co-founded and served as vice president of business development and board director at Urix, a company known for its innovation in healthcare analytics and reporting.

He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Yale School of Management and received a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Queen Mary University of London. When not in the world of startups, you can find Ochtman on his mountain bike, on the river with his crew team, or brushing up his flying skills.

As the CFO of Pyramid Analytics Oz Tarazi is responsible for overseeing the company’s financial and legal aspects, as well as capital structure, debt and equity financing, cash management, investor relations, and strategic planning. Oz has over fifteen years of experience in senior financial management and led finance and operations in global tech companies through critical turn-around situations. Prior to Pyramid Analytics, Oz served as Head of Finance for Vizrt Inc., a real-time 3D graphics and a media asset management tool provider, Acquired by Nordic Capital for $360M. Prior to Vizrt, Oz served in several senior financial management positions at Deloitte in Tel-Aviv, Grant Thornton, and Take-Two Interactive SW. in NYC.

Oz is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.A degree in Business Management from Colman in Tel-Aviv.

As CRO, Brian McCormac brings 18 years in the enterprise software industry with 14 of those years in the analytics field.  Brian has held management positions previously while taking many early-stage companies to market with ThoughtSpot, Yottaa, and Perfecto, in both the SAAS and enterprise respectively.

20+ years of successful experience in B2B marketing, building and managing highly energetic teams that find creative solutions, develop lucrative marketing strategies and deliver bottom line results in competitive worldwide markets. Previously worked with Aladdin, Sisense, Breezometer.

Robert Longmire started his tech career 15 years ago and has held different sales and leadership roles with software companies including Oracle, OpenText, Information Builders, Collibra, and now Pyramid.

Prior to starting his career, Robert graduated from the University of Kentucky, thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, and volunteered with the Peace Corps in Bolivia.

Robert currently lives in Parker, CO, with his wife and 3 kids (ages 10, 8, and 5).  Outside of work and being a dad, he loves skiing, mountain biking, hunting, fishing, and competitive tennis.

As the Vice President of Sales, Peter leverages over 25 years of experience in large enterprise B2B software solution sales to drive growth and strategy that innovates and scales software vendors in the EMEA region. Peter has worked with a diverse and talented team of sales professionals, channel partners, and customers across multiple verticals and markets, delivering value and impact through his solutions.

Throughout his career, Russ has been focused on developing applications that leverage technology to solve business problems.  He has held sales, business development, and channel leadership roles at four technology startups: Zoomdata, Clarabridge, Tellius, and Brainbench.

His breadth of experience includes application development for DoD mission-critical systems, deploying automated recruitment programs for the intelligence community, and selling a text analytics application for commercial VOC programs. He was also a Zoomdata Co-Founder, where their team built a next-generation data analytics platform for Big Data.

Russ is a graduate of Northeastern University and holds an MBA from George Mason University. He coaches high school hockey in Virginia, where he resides with his family.

Hans Sherman is a Managing Director at H.I.G. Growth Partners and is based in the Boston office, where he focuses on growth equity investments focused primarily on infrastructure and application software.
Hans is responsible for all aspects of the investment process including originating, structuring, financing and executing post-closing growth and operational strategies.

Hans has over 15 years of investing experience across a broad range of industries including Cloud Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Horizontal and Vertical SaaS, and Internet and Digital Marketing. Prior investment and board experience includes BioCatch, A Cloud Guru, Revenue.io, Knowbe4, Persado, Tastemade, ScienceLogic, and AvePoint.

Prior to joining H.I.G., Hans was a Partner at Bain Capital Tech Opportunities and a Vice President in Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division. Hans began his career at Summit Partners, a growth equity firm in Boston.

Hans earned a B.A. in Economics and History from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. from UCLA Anderson.

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“H.I.G. partners with industry-leading companies to drive transformative change. Pyramid is a model of transformation. The Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform upended analytics and business intelligence (ABI) by redefining what’s possible when the power of data insights is available to everyone.

H.I.G. is excited to partner with Pyramid in its next stage of growth. Pyramid drives exceptional ROI to customers by empowering them to make faster, more intelligent decisions leveraging advanced analytics and data insights. I’m thrilled to join the Board of Directors and to collaborate with an exceptional leadership team who have brought a truly innovative, differentiated technology to market.”

Yoav Tzruya, General Partner, JVP. Yoav brings to JVP over twenty years of experience in enterprise software, cyber security, cloud, AI, and digital media. With his hands-on approach, Yoav works with and sits on the board of several of JVP’s companies including Pyramid Analytics, Quali, Centrical, Morphisec, Coronet, ThetaRay, ChainReaction, Rezilion, Appdome, Secret Double Octopus, SourceDefense, 1Touch.io, and Akeyless. Past exits include CyActive (acquired by PayPal), Loom (acquired by ServiceNow), Cnvrg.io (acquired by Intel), and Uponit. Prior to joining JVP, Yoav held General Management, Marketing, Business Development, and Product executive positions, scaling startups from zero to tens of millions of revenues, and led strategic efforts vis-à-vis industry leaders such as Verizon, Comcast, Telefonica, Intel, CBS, and Time Warner, in both B2B and B2B2C models. Yoav spent six years in the Israeli Air Force, managing mission-critical technological projects. Yoav holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics (cum laude) and an MS in Computer Science (cum laude) from Tel-Aviv University, as well as an Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management’s international program in collaboration with Tel Aviv University.

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“As experienced investors in the data and analytics, with proven successes such as Qlik, which was led by JVP’s founder & chairperson, Erel Margalit, from early-stage to post-IPO, we are happy to continue and support Pyramid Analytics.

“Analytics solutions, and especially BI systems, have struggled for more than 2 decades, with the promise of delivering true enterprise-wide decision-support capabilities. Today, such solutions are further crippled, coming up short on the support for diverse and distributed data sources, ever-increasing quantities of data, and intuitive user experience, while providing needed enterprise capabilities. Pyramid Analytics is the only solution that brings decision intelligence capabilities for anyone – from C-suite to the front-line – to make faster, more intelligent decisions.”

Haim Sadger is a Founding Partner at S CAPITAL and a Partner with Sequoia Capital Israel where he focuses on mobile, semiconductor, systems, and software investments. Before joining Sequoia Capital in 1999, Haim held senior engineering and management positions at Intel Corporation. Haim has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

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“Sequoia Capital first invested in Pyramid nearly a decade ago. Over this time, the Pyramid leadership team has turned their vision for giving anyone in an organization the power of data and analytics to make faster, more intelligent decisions into reality. Technology innovations, customer growth, industry analyst recognition, and commercial success have followed. We are proud to deepen our partnership, and we look forward to being part of Pyramid’s next stage of growth.”

Natalie is a General Partner at Viola Growth. She joined Viola Growth as an Associate when it was first founded in 2008, eventually becoming a Principal. She was promoted to Partner in 2016.  Natalie is an experienced investment professional with a vast network and connections in the Israeli high-tech and the VC industries.

Some of Natalie’s career highlights include her being Director of Investor Relations at Evergreen Venture Partners, an Israeli venture capital fund, where she was responsible for managing relations with investors, overseeing the fund’s marketing activities, and assisting in the raising of a $200 million fund.

She was also an associate in the Office of the Legal Advisor in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs where she was in charge of Economic Bilateral and Multilateral International Agreements of the Israeli Government.

In addition, she was a member of the Global Consulting Practicum Program staff of the Recanati School of Business Management at Tel Aviv University and was formerly also a Teacher’s Assistant at Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.

Natalie holds a special BA in Law and International Relations from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a MBA (Summa Cum Laude) from Tel Aviv University. She is a member of the Israel Bar Association.

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“Pyramid Analytics is well on its way to becoming a global leader in the fast-growing decision intelligence category. With a 110% net customer retention rate and nearly 2,500 organizations that use Pyramid to speed up insights, scale adoption, and simplify analytics for more than 1 million people, we are truly excited to support its next steps of growth.”

Andre Boisvert has been in the BI & Analytics business since 1989 – Cognos (BI- Business Intelligence),  Oracle (DW- Data Warehouse), SAS (Predictive Analytics), Sagent (ETL- data Extraction Transformation & Load), Pentaho (open source BI/ETL/OLAP- OnLineAnalytical Processing), Revolution Analytics (the Red Hat of a statistical language called R) and Infobright (Columnar Data Base for BI.

Andre Joined the board of Pyramid Analytics in January 2017 and serves both as a director & strategic advisor.

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“I am fortunate to have been associated with many innovative BI & Analytics companies throughout my career but Pyramid Analytics has turned out to be the company with the greatest product depth and breadth.”