Company

Avner Schneur is the co-founder and Chairman of Petpace. Schneur has a successful record of taking companies from early-stage to IPO, or to profitable exit.

Schneur founded Kormeli LLC – www.kormeli.com – an Early-stage technology funding group helping entrepreneurs and enterprises in their initial stage. Kormeli, invested in diverse portfolio of about 30 companies focuses on Healthcare IoT and Internet.
Schneur is also the President and CEO of GRM. A Worldwide leading Content Management enterprise www.grmdocument.com.

Prior to GRM Schneur founded Emptoris Inc, leading Analytics Supply and Contract mgt Software Company and served as the company’s Chairman, President and CEO. Emptoris transformed procurement practice by providing strong Analytics, enabling better Vendor and Enterprise collaboration and Price optimization, Emptoris was acquired by IBM in 2011.

Prior to founding Emptoris Schneur held number of executive positions in leading technology companies,
Schneur graduated cum laude in Information Systems, from the Technion and is member of the Technion Industrial Engineering Faculty Advisory Board.

Udi Dagan served in CXX (CEO/COO/CFO) roles in several startups such as Bendit Technologies , Redbend Software , Rootility and Vatbox , leading their business execution and global growth efforts.

Prior to that , Mr. Dagan worked for many years in IBM in senior roles , both in Israel and in the IBM European HQ in Paris . His last role in IBM , following the acquisition of PWC Consulting , was Israel Country Manager of IBM Business Services where he was in charge of a team of over 500 professionals in Strategy Consulting , Business Consulting, IT consulting and IT local & International projects.

Mr. Dagan holds an MBA from the UK OU Business School.

Amir Ganani is an industry veteran with over 40 years experience in system engineering and project management in various fields of electrical engineering.
Amir comes to PetPace from VocalZoom, a Start-Up company that developed a unique optical sensor, where he served as the Vice President of Research and Development. For 5 years before that Amir managed projects and products for the fast storage companies Kaminario and EMC.
Amir also worked for 10 years at Cisco, managing engineering teams that played a major part in the development of Cisco’s High-Speed Core Routers. Amir arrived to Cisco following the acquisition of Pentacom, a startup company who developed an Optical Network Concentrator. At Pentacom Amir was the HW engineering manager, and after managing the hardware group of Harmonic Lightwaves in Israel for 3 years Amir spent 8 years in the silicon valley, developing High-Speed Super Computer I/O and networking systems, and different kind of appliances (Video Phones, Fax Network devices, Video compression cards, etc.)
Amir holds a BSc.EE from the Technion, Israel.

Amit Lasry has over 15 years of experience in Software Development and management.

Before joining PetPace, he was a Software Manager at Supersonic (acquired by ironSource) and Traiana, responbisble for highly-scalable systems.

Amit served as an Intelligence Task Force Leader in the Israeli Defense Forces.
He is 8200 Alumni and holds a B.Sc. in Information Systems Engineering from Ben-Gurion University.