Appointment
BigID appoints Itai Raz as Senior Vice President of Engineering
“Itai’s deep experience in database technologies will support the next generation of BigID’s solution into the data infrastructure and beyond,” said Co-founder and CPO Nimrod Vax.
BigID, a company providing data security, privacy, compliance, and AI data management, has appointed Itai Raz as Senior Vice President of Engineering. Most recently, he served as VP of R&D at Israeli-founded data platform Redis.
“I’m very excited to join BigID – a company with a powerful product and clear market need, already trusted by many top global organizations,” said Raz. “The company is perfectly positioned to ride the AI wave, reshaping our industry. I look forward to leveraging my experience across both cloud and on-prem environments to help BigID expand, and to continue building and scaling world-class engineering teams.”
Before joining BigID, his earlier roles included positions at Rafael, Intel, and Microsoft, where he was part of the global product management team and helped launch Azure, as well as business development and sales at U.S.-based consultancy Neudesic. He was also active in the Israeli startup BreezoMeter. Raz holds a BSc in Information Systems from the Technion and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Itai to BigID,” added Nimrod Vax, Co-founder and CPO. “Itai’s deep experience in database technologies will support the next generation of BigID’s solution into the data infrastructure and beyond. He will help us scale our cloud solutions while driving BigID to become a seamless part of modern cloud infrastructure with the scale and resiliency enterprises demand.”
BigID connects the dots across data and AI - for security, privacy, compliance, and data management outcomes across the enterprise. Customers deploy BigID to proactively discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their regulated, sensitive, and personal data across their data landscape. The company was founded in 2016 by Vax and CEO Dimitri Sirota and has reached $100 million in ARR and a valuation of over $1 billion. The company employs around 570 people globally with headquarters in New York and an R&D center in Israel.
