What Happened?
Redwood City, CA-based SiSense Appointed Amir Orad as Chief Executive Officer
About the Company
SiSense gives you the easiest way to get real business insights from complex data with radically innovative business analytics. SiSense empowers everyday business users to independently manage, analyze, and visualize complex data quickly and cost-effectively. Our mission is to transform complex data into insights everywhere, enabling access to business intelligence across the entire organization. Our leading innovation is used by companies seeking to gain insights to their own business, and also embedded by technology and service companies that aim to provide additional insights and value for their customers.
About the Person
Amir Orad is a successful CEO, entrepreneur and a big data, cyber security and financial technology thought leader. He brings proven success in leading and scaling businesses by orders of magnitude from no revenue to $200M in both start-up and public company settings as well as multiple exits and M&As. Amir is the CEO of Sisense, a fast growing Business Analytics company focusing on complex data sets, known for its innovative in-chip technology. Described as "A nasty shock for the big [BI] boys" by ZDNet, and as "Taking "Disruption" to the next level" by Forbes, SiSense is sending a shock wave across the business intelligence industry. Prior to Sisense Orad was the CEO of NICE Actimize the financial crime and analytics software leader monitoring billions of transactions at the world’s top institutions. Orad led the company’s business functions since it was a $30M business, first as EVP and later as President and CEO. Under his leadership the business grew over six fold with Wall Street reported revenue nearing a $200M run rate. Prior to Actimize, Orad was part of the founding team and EVP Product/CMO of Cyota a cyber security and payment authentication cloud company protecting over 100 million online users, acquired by RSA Security for $145M. Following the acquisition, he was VP Marketing at RSA. Orad is also a founding board member at BillGuard the venture backed personal finance analytics mobile app company. Orad started his career as a techie in areas such as data mining, security, robotics and communication and is the author of several innovative patents. As an industry pioneer, he is a thought leader in the application of big data and analytics in the FinTech and Cyber Security domains and often quoted in publications such as Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Washington Post, CNBC, BBC etc. He lives in New York and earned his MBA at Columbia University and B.Sc in Computer Science and Management at Tel Aviv University.
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