WEKA Taps Lior Mozel To Be Its First Chief Engineering Officer
CAMPBELL, Calif. and TEL AVIV, Israel, January 24, 2024
WekaIO (WEKA), the data platform software provider for AI and performance-intensive workloads, announced today that Lior Mozel has been appointed the company’s first Chief Engineering Officer. Reporting to WEKA cofounder and CEO Liran Zvibel, Mozel will lead the development of the WEKA® Data Platform and the company's global research and development (R&D) organization and engineering teams, helping to enrich and advance its deep-rooted culture of customer-centric innovation as it continues on a trajectory of record growth and adoption.
“Generative AI and GPU technologies are now evolving faster than anyone could imagined, and with them, our customers’ requirements are evolving rapidly too,” said Zvibel. “WEKA is committed to helping global enterprises, governments, and research organizations overcome AI infrastructure and data management challenges with our deeply differentiated, highly performant, and sustainable data platform software. Lior’s deep IT infrastructure expertise and proven leadership and passion for building dynamic engineering teams will strengthen and invigorate our global R&D as we scale development of the WEKA Data Platform to meet these changing requirements and increasing customer demand.”
Mozel brings over 20 years of experience building R&D organizations at global software companies to WEKA. He most recently served as Chief Engineering Officer of Cybereason, a cybersecurity software company, where he scaled the company’s engineering team to support significant, sustained growth.
Before joining Cybereason, Mozel led R&D at Playbuzz, a content platform provider. He also held several management roles at cybersecurity provider Imperva, most recently as Head of Development, leading R&D worldwide for multiple product lines.
“WEKA is helping to fuel the AI revolution,” Mozel said. “I’m thrilled to join at this pivotal point in the company’s history and growth trajectory to help build its breakthrough data platform software and fuel the next wave of cloud and AI-powered innovation for WEKA’s customers.”
About WEKA
WEKA is the AI data and memory infrastructure company transforming the economics of agentic AI. Its NeuralMesh™ platform unifies high-performance data storage with extended GPU memory, giving enterprises, AI cloud providers, and AI builders a single foundation for training, inference, and agentic workloads. With Augmented Memory Grid, NeuralMesh extends GPU memory capacity by 1000x, accelerates time to first token by up to 20x, and delivers 10x more concurrent users from the same GPU footprint, proven in production benchmarks. Trusted by 30% of the Fortune 50, WEKA enables organizations to scale AI faster, optimize GPU utilization, and reduce the cost of every token served. Learn more at www.weka.io or connect with us on LinkedIn and X.
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