K2 – The hardest mountain to climb on earth
Getting you to the top with AI-ready data
Putting your data to work
If your organization is like most, accessing your enterprise data and putting it to work is a struggle. It's like climbing a mountain – over and over again.
Now, imagine being able to package your data for safe, independent use, for any workload. That's what K2view does for you.
Ask your data any question
Using K2view, our clients deploy Generative Data Products to ensure their data is always AI-ready: complete, protected, and accessible in a split second.
Users and apps gain a trusted and real-time view into customers, products, loans, or anything else that’s important to the business. They’re then able to ask any data-driven question and get immediate and accurate answers.
From start to now: K2view's story
65 million years ago
K2 formed in the Himalayas as the result of seismic shifts
2009
Established K2view based on
M&A-driven data migration experiences
2010-2014
K2view embraced by leading enterprises to automate complex data migrations
2014-2015
Granted US and EU patents for Micro-Database technology
2019
Launched market's first data fabric for real-time and batch data integration
2020
Raised $27M in first-round financing
2020
Opened offices in the US, Germany, and the Netherlands
2021
Launched Data Product Platform with public and private cloud deployment options
2023
Launched AI-powered Synthetic Data Management
2024
Welcomed data industry leader, Ronen Schwartz, as our new CEO
2024
Launched GenAI Data Fusion, for grounding GenAI apps with enterprise data
Leadership Team
Ronen Schwartz
CEO
A 25-year veteran of the data business, Ronen lives and breathes data, cloud, and AI. Before joining K2view as CEO in 2024, Ronen was SVP and GM Cloud Storage at NetApp since 2020.
Prior to that, he spent 14 years at Informatica, where he held several senior management roles, introduced the integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) and Data Catalog market categories, and released that company’s first middleware AI offering.
Achi Rotem
President and co-founder
Achi co-founded K2view in 2009 with groundbreaking data technology field-proven at some of the largest enterprises in the world. Today K2view is rated “Visionary” by Gartner, and with good reason. To bring K2view to the next level, Achi is working with company management to fuse the worlds of AI and data – to make enterprises more agile, responsive, and profitable, and to improve the user experience with more accurate, honest, and meaningful interactions.
Yuval Perlov
Chief Technology Officer
Yuval brings nearly 3 decades of experience building and managing technology for the enterprise. Before joining K2view as VP R&D in 2017, Yuval served as CTO of Nextrade for close to 7 years, Product Development Manager at eBay for 1 year, and as Senior Program Manager at TTI Telecom for almost 12 years. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.
Dror Harel-Elkayam
Chief Financial Officer
With more than 20 years of experience in financial leadership, Dror specializes in the software industry. Before joining K2view as CFO in 2020, he was CFO at Attunity (NASDAQ: ATTU), and Director of Finance at Precise Software Solutions (NASDAQ: PRSE), respectively. He holds a BA in Accounting and Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Rivi Grinboim
Chief Product Solutions
With 18 years of customer service, product, and project management experience, Rivi enjoys simplifying and solving complex business challenges. In her almost 13 years at K2view, Rivi held key management positions – most recently VP Delivery and VP Global Center of Excellence – before assuming her current role as Chief Product Solutions. Rivi joined K2view from Amdocs, where she worked for 5 years as a software engineer and team lead, respectively.
Oren Ezra
Chief Marketing Officer
With a 30-year track record in B2B enterprise software, Oren has a rich history in leading marketing and product management teams for startups, upstarts, and software giants. Before joining K2view in 2020, Oren held executive leadership positions at Monday.com (Nasdaq: MNDY), Seebo (acquired by Augury), Pepperi, Panaya (acquired by Infosys), Nice Systems (Nasdaq: NICE), and Jacada (acquired by Uniphore).
Sharon Pekelman
General Counsel
Before joining K2view in 2021, Sharon served as general counsel for the R&D division of a defense corporation, and Nilit Ltd., respectively. Prior to that, she was an associate at Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano & Co. in Israel, and at Holland & Knight LLP in Boston, MA in the US, where she started her career. She holds an LLM from the Boston University School of Law and an MBA from Reichman University.
Ryan Bowman
Chief Revenue Officer
Ryan brings nearly 2 decades of experience building and transforming high-growth software businesses. As K2view’s Chief Revenue Officer, Ryan is responsible for worldwide sales, sales engineering, customer success, and product solutions. Prior to joining K2view in 2022, Ryan held key positions at Bit, Ionic (acquired by Outsystems), Riverbed, Aternity (acquired by Riverbed), Opsview (acquired by ITRS), and Quest Software.
Micah Deriso
Chief Growth Officer
Micah has over 25 years of executive leadership experience overseeing revenue teams and operations at both private and public companies, including HP Software, Informatica, and Conga. As K2view's Chief Growth Officer, Micah is responsible for the success and growth of our channel partners, as well as for incubating business from our newest technologies and solutions.
Eti De Leon
VP People
With more than 20 years of experience in HR, Eti loves people and organizations – and bringing them together. Before joining K2view in 2020, Eti held senior HR roles at Leverate, QLogic, ICQ, Cadence Design Systems, Rockwell Conexant, and Mindspeed. She holds a BA from Bar Ilan University and LLB and LLM degrees from Ono Academic College.
Hod Rotem
Chief Product Evangelist
With 18 years of data, network, and telco experience, Hod is passionate about combining data and AI with innovation. In his 12 years at K2view, Hod served in a variety of management positions – from product and program management, to sales, innovation, and solutions – culminating in his current role of Chief Product Evangelist.
Board of Directors
Worldwide offices
Plano, TX, US
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