Zend is the leading provider of professional PHP solutions for business-critical web applications.  Zend's senior management team brings to the table a blend of technology innovation, entrepreneurship, and operational acumen, coupled with a strong global perspective, that enables Zend's rapid growth.

Andi Gutmans
Chief Executive Officer

Andi Gutmans co-founded Zend Technologies and has been instrumental in making Zend into the company it is today. In addition to building key partnerships with IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Adobe, and contributing to major customer & sales engagements, in 2006 he led the company’s largest round of funding to date.  Gutmans’ leadership of the company’s open source project Zend Framework has included galvanizing the PHP and enterprise communities around the benefits of standardization and has broadened the professionalism and market reach of PHP and of Zend solutions worldwide.

Gutmans has also been a lead contributor to PHP since 1997, when he and Zeev Suraski developed the foundation for PHP 3 and later co-founded Zend Technologies together. PHP 3 was a turning point for the language, which today powers over 20 million websites including Facebook and Yahoo! and enjoys a following of over 5 million developers.

Gutmans was named one of Computerworld’s “40 innovative IT people to watch, under the age of 40.”  He is also recognized from the widely circulated technical publications he has authored and is a frequent speaker on business and technology issues at global conferences.  Gutmans is a member of the PHP Group, the Apache Software Foundation, and the Eclipse Foundation, as well as serving on the board of Zend Technologies. Gutmans holds a bachelor's in computer science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Zeev Suraski
Chief Technology Officer

Zeev Suraski was a lead contributor to PHP starting in 1997, when he and Andi Gutmans developed the foundation for PHP 3. That new version was a turning point for the language, which today powers over 20 million websites including Facebook and Yahoo! and enjoys a following of over 5 million developers. Zeev spearheaded the PHP 4 project, the version that tipped PHP to become the most popular Web development platform in the world, and later contributed to the PHP 5 project.

Zeev co-founded Zend Technologies in 1999 together with Andi Gutmans. He serves as CTO and leads the company's research & development teams . Zend helped forge Zend as one of the key Web solutions providers, secured four rounds of financing, and established Zend's presence in the European market.

Zeev serves on the board of Zend Technologies and is a member of the PHP Group and the Apache Software Foundation. Suraski holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. 

Glenn Hasen
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations

Glenn Hasen is responsible for worldwide field operations for Zend Technologies. Glenn brings more than 20 years of experience to his position at Zend, including several tenures as chief executive, most recently at QL2 Software, as well as services oriented architecture (SOA) vendors Kapow Technologies and Blue Titan Software, an early pioneer in SOA software.

At Kapow, Glenn established a North American presence for the EU-based company. Prior to his CEO roles, Glenn was executive vice president of global field operations for Pivotal Corporation where he led the company’s stellar growth and successful IPO on the public markets. He has also held several executive positions with both domestic and international responsibilities at Information Builders and at Computer Associates, where he was known for identifying and seizing new market opportunities.

Matt Elson
Vice President, Business & Corporate Development

Matt Elson is responsible for strategic alliances and business development at Zend Technologies. In this role, he manages Zend’s alliances with industry giants like Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and others.

Matt has over 14 years of enterprise software experience having worked in senior business development and field operations roles at BEA Systems, WebGain, and Borland. Prior to joining Zend, Matt worked for two venture-backed start ups (Cenzic and Mocana) where he was responsible for business development and sales. Matt began his career as an investment banker at Kidder, Peabody and was also a management consultant for Stanford Research Institute, now SRI. Matt holds a bachelor’s degree from UCLA.

Eldad Maniv
Vice President, Marketing & Products

Eldad Maniv is responsible for marketing and product management at Zend. He brings almost two decades of product management, marketing, engineering, sales, business development, and professional services experience to Zend. His areas of expertise span the application development, process automation, problem resolution, networking equipment, aerospace, telecommunications and medical markets.

Eldad joins the Zend leadership team from BMC Software (through acquisition of Identify Software) where he was vice president of product management responsible for products, marketing, customer support, and professional services and where he consistently grew sales 50% to 80%+ year-over-year over a 5 year period. He was founder and CEO at NextNine, a maker of support automation solutions for telecom where he personally sought and received corporate financing of over $25M. Additionally, Eldad was an executive and founder at BiTec, Ltd., chief of systems engineering at Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), and was an officer in the Israel Defense Forces for six years where his responsibilities included a multi-million dollar project in systems engineering.

A graduate of Hebrew University, cum laude in physics, mathematics, and computer science in the prestigious Talpiot program, Eldad has also completed the Graduate Management Program for executives of emerging companies at the Technion Institute of Management in Tel Aviv.

Daniel Moskowitz
Vice President, Finance & Operations

Daniel Moskowitz leads the financial and operational aspects of Zend worldwide including finance, accounting, order-to-cash process, information technology & legal.

Daniel brings 15 years of experience including a strong international background. He came to Zend from Intuit, a maker of financial software for consumers & small businesses, where he was responsible for long range planning and resource allocation. Prior to that, he was director of finance at BMC Software, supporting a $500M division which included several acquisitions (Remedy, Marimba & Magic). Additionally, Daniel held various positions at Intel during a five year tenure, the last being as senior manager, corporate planning & reporting.

Daniel holds a bachelor’s in business & economics from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Susie M. Sedlacek
Vice President, Global Services

Susie Sedlacek brings 25+ years of experience and success in software and hardware services to Zend. She is responsible for the company’s customer services worldwide including professional services, training, and support.

Prior to joining Zend, Susie was vice president of professional services at Active Decisions (acquired by Knova), a guided selling Web application software company. Prior to Active Decisions, Susie was responsible for field support and consulting services for the Americas at Network Appliance (Nasdaq:NTAP). During her tenure, Susie oversaw the doubling of services year-over-year and the development and execution of high value-added solutions to the enterprise data-center. Susie has held both global and international executive management positions at Niku, Serviceware, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard. Susie drove service solutions at each of these companies during their high-growth business phases and entry into enterprise markets where total solutions around technology were strategic to corporate goals. Susie started her career in management consulting at SRI International.

Susie holds an MBA and a bachelor’s in economics from the University of San Francisco.

Siddhartha Agarwal
Vice President, Americas Field Operations

Siddhartha Agarwal is responsible for Zend's direct and indirect revenue channels in the United States, Canada, and South America. Siddhartha brings 15 years of experience engineering, building, and selling enterprise software products and services.

Prior to joining Zend, Siddhartha was vice president of sales at Solidcore Systems, where he instrumented the company’s transition from an endpoint security solution to a budget relevant compliance solution, enabling a dramatic acceleration in revenues. Before Solidcore, Siddhartha defined and managed the portfolio of remote infrastructure services for Totality Corporation (acquired by Verizon/MCI), later managing their east coast business as regional vice president of sales & services. Prior to Totality, Siddhartha founded companies such as Teamscape (acquired by Peoplesoft) and Contractor Online as vice president of engineering/CTO. Prior to these entrepreneurial initiatives, Siddhartha was director of development at Oracle, for Oracle's CRM eCommerce product, Internet Bill Presentment and Payment.

Siddhartha holds a master’s in computer science from Stanford University, an engineering bachelor’s in computer science and economics from California Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s from Grinnell College.

Mark Burton, Executive Chairman

Mark Burton has 29 years of sales and marketing experience. His past accomplishments include executive sales roles at MySQL AB and Informatica. At MySQL, as EVP of worldwide sales and alliances, he contributed as the sales executive building a worldwide sales engine monetizing the MySQL open source brand and culminating in a $1 billion acquisition by Sun Microsystems in February 2008. At Informatica, Mark held roles as senior vice president of Americas sales and eventually group vice president of worldwide sales and alliances. His contribution helped grow Informatica from $12m to over $150m in sales resulting in a successful IPO in April 1999 and a secondary offering in September 2000. Other positions include several vice president of sales and marketing roles in early stage companies, executive-in-residence at Partech International Venture Partners, and regional sales management at Oracle, among others.

Mark also has appointments on the board of directors of open-source leaders MuleSource and Infobright as well as on the advisory board for Jaspersoft.

Roni Hefetz, Board Member

Roni Hefetz is the co-founder and general partner of Walden Israel Venture Capital. Founded in 1993, Walden Israel manages $185 million and focuses on early-stage investments in the areas of communications and information technology.

Both in Israel and in the US, Roni has extensive entrepreneurial and operational experience. Prior to establishing Walden Israel, Roni was a venture partner with the Walden Group of International Venture Capital Funds in San Francisco. He was also a co-founder and general manager of the US operations of CI Systems, an Israeli high-tech electro optics company serving the defense market. Prior to that he spent several years with the Government of Israel in the Ministry of Finance at various positions including the Budget Department and the Investment Authority.

Roni holds a bachelor’s in economics and a master’s in business administration from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He serves on the board of directors of several Walden Israel technology companies, including Siano, ColorChip, Amimon, SintecMedia, and Zend Technologies.

Cameron Lester, Board Member

Cameron Lester is a founding general partner with Azure Capital Partners where he specializes in software and related infrastructure technologies. His current board memberships include Limbo, PSS Systems, ROME, SourceCode Technology and Zend Technologies. Other successful investments include TopTier Software (acquired by SAP), VMware (acquired by EMC), Interwoven (IPO in 1999) and Salesforce.com (IPO in 2004).

Immediately prior to Azure, Cameron was a managing director and the group head of the Software Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). Prior to CSFB, Cameron was a director and the group head of the Software Investment Banking Group at Deutsche Bank Securities. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Cameron was a vice president at PaineWebber, focused on software. Over the course of his career, Cameron has provided strategic and investment advice to numerous leading private and public software companies. Notable firms include Advent Software, Baan, BEA Systems, Brio Technology, BSQUARE, Citrix Systems, Cygnus, DigitalThink, E.piphany, HNC Software, i2 Technologies, Infinity Financial, Informatica, Interwoven, JD Edwards, Liberate Technologies, NetDynamics, NetIQ, Onyx Software, PLATINUM technology, Pure Atria, Retek, Salesforce.com, Think Systems, Vantive, VERITAS Software, and Vitria Technology.

Cameron received his bachelor's in economics from the University of Virginia and his M.B.A. in finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Moshe Mor, Board Member

A Partner with the Venture Firm Greylock Partners, Moshe Mor focuses on enterprise software, systems and services. Working in Greylock’s Israel office Mor brings operational and venture experience to Zend’s Board. He was a member of SPL's founding team; from 1995 he led it as its CEO through rapid expansion to reach 1,000 employees and $150 million in revenues worldwide. Prior to SPL WorldGroup, Moshe held management positions in software companies in diverse stages, from start-ups to large established players. Moshe leads Greylock's international investment activities in Israel, Europe and emerging regions in concert with other Greylock partners in both the Bay Area and the Boston offices.

Moshe holds a bachelor's in economics from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.

Danny Rimer, Board Member

Danny Rimer joined Index Ventures in 2002 as the partner responsible for establishing the firm's London office and expanding the firm's presence in Northern Europe. His investment interests include enterprise infrastructure, applications and services. He currently serves on the boards of KVS, MediaSurface, MySQL, Skype, Video Island and Zend, and is an observer on Betfair. Prior to joining Index, Danny was a general partner of The Barksdale Group, where he invested in a dozen companies including CrossGain (now BEA), myCFO (now Bank of Montreal), Neoteris (now NetScreen/Juniper), Ofoto (now Kodak) and TellMe. Prior to joining The Barksdale Group, Danny was managing director in Hambrecht & Quist's (now JP Morgan) Equity Research Group. At H&Q, Danny was the underwriting analyst for companies including Amazon, CheckPoint, CNET, Netscape, and Verisign. He also sponsored direct investments in over 20 companies. He holds a bachelor's from Harvard College.

Steven R. Springsteel, Board Member

Steve Springsteel is currently chairman, president, and CEO of Chordiant Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHRD). He brings over 20 years of high tech management experience to the Zend board of directors, including management of two successful IPOs and several mergers and acquisitions. Before Chordiant, Steve was president and CFO at Verity (NASDAQ: VRTY) where he led the company to profitability and shepherded the sale of the company to Autonomy. Steve will help guide Zend’s exceptional growth with a focus on streamlining operations and maximizing profitability. He is a frequent speaker on financial issues and has appeared on CNBC and other business media outlets, as well as at financial industry conferences. Steve holds a bachelor's in business administration from Cleveland State University.

Andi Gutmans, Board Member, Chief Executive Officer

(See biography above under Management)

Zeev Suraski, Board Member, Chief Technology Officer

(See biography above under Management)

Dr. Yehoshau (Shuki) Gleitman, PNV, Board Observer

Nino Marakovic, SAP Ventures, Board Observer

Pradeep Tagare, Intel Capital, Board Observer