Leadership Team
Doron Gordon, CEO
Doron is a successful entrepreneur and leader who is the Founder and CEO of SAManage. Prior to founding SAManage in early 2007, he was a Co-Founder and VP of Sales and Marketing at Continuity Software, a leading provider of disaster recovery and high availability management solutions. Earlier, Doron was a senior manager at BMC Software, a global leader in IT management software. He was also the Founder and CEO at Always-On Software, an innovative application service provider. Previously, Doron held various technical and sales roles at Crystal Systems and IDF/Mamram. Doron holds a B.Sc from Mercy College and an M.B.A. from Touro University.
Darroll Buytenhuys, President
Darroll has over 30 years experience in sales, marketing and general management in the software industry. Most recently Darroll was a Senior Vice President and Officer of BMC Software (NYSE BMC). Darroll joined BMC as a result of the acquisition of New Dimension Software where he was the president of the North American operation and was also the company’s worldwide COO. New Dimension Software was an Israeli company (listed on NASDAQ) and its $800M acquisition by BMC was at the time the largest ever acquisition of an Israeli software company.
At BMC Darroll initially had responsibility for all BMC operations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. He was subsequently promoted to head up the worldwide sales, services and support organizations with responsibility for over 3,000 employees in 42 countries. Darroll was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa where his IT and software career was launched within the computer division of a prominent stockbroker. This division was later spun off and acquired by Computer Sciences Corporation where Darroll became its youngest ever divisional general manager. In 1986 Darroll relocated his family to the USA. Darroll has participated in numerous management and executive programs at the University of the Witwatersrand, London Business School and UCLA.
Michael Mazyar, CTO
Mr. Mazyar is responsible for implementing the SAManage service vision, including all service and technology strategy and serves as our Chief Technology Officer. A veteran of multiple technology development platforms, Michael has deep experience and knowledge of Internet, SaaS and web technologies and building robust, highly scalable web sites and web platforms with a focus on distributed computing. Before joining SAManage, Michael was a development manager at BitWine, and software engineer at vizrt. Michael received his B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology.
Anat Segal
Ms. Segal is a Board Member for SAManage and the CEO of Xenia Venture Capital. She also serves on the board of directors for Attunity, Orad and Priortech. Prior to Xenia, Anat ran a successful advisory and investment banking boutique. Earlier, she was Managing Director and Head of Corporate Finance at Tamir Fishman & Co., which is now part of JP Morgan Chase. Anat has also been the VP Investment Banking at Evergreen and also worked at Bank Hapoalim Group for its Investment Banking arm. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Management, an M.B.A. degree in Finance, and an L.L.B. degree from Tel Aviv University.
Avi Lior
Mr. Lior is a Board Member for SAManage, the Co-Founder and Chairman of Faneuil Medical, Chairman of NeatStitch, a Board Member of Xenia Venture Capital and a Board Member of several other companies. In addition, he is an active investor in several other ventures with a focus on the medical field. Avi played a pivotal role in the founding of Syneron medical which is now a public company (ELOS). Prior to Syneron, he served in various management, sales and marketing positions in high growth medical companies. Earlier, Avi was a partner in the international consultancy group Delphi, where he spent 20 years as a sales and marketing consultant.
