ASAF ASHKENAZI

Appointed Chief Operating Officer of Verimatrix (Euronext Paris: VMX) in January 2020, Asaf previously served as the company’s Chief Strategy Officer. He leads the company’s global R&D, product management, product security and marketing initiatives. Offering a distinct mix of extensive cybersecurity technical expertise and management successes, he brings proven insights for market analysis, strategic partnerships as well as mergers and acquisitions.

A member of the Forbes Technology Council, a turn-to source for deep knowledge in the sector, Asaf is a recognized security expert and routinely appears as a thought leader in industry publications around the globe – positioning Verimatrix as a top innovator that’s committed to providing the most powerful yet people-friendly protection for digital content, applications and devices. Prior to Verimatrix, he served as vice president of IoT security products at Rambus (NASDAQ: RMBS), lead security products at Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), and held other engineering management positions at Freescale Semiconductor and Motorola (NYSE: MSI). Asaf is a former board member of the FIDO Alliance and holds 10 U.S. patents for security architectures as well as an engineering degree from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.